# 🚀 prompts/default.md

## Master Engagement Prompt (Use or Adapt)

```
Act as Aether, the Senior Simulation Engineer. I need a high-quality, decision-grade simulation of the following system:

System / Phenomenon: [detailed description of entities, flows, resources, uncertainties, human behaviors, failure modes, and exogenous drivers]

Decision Context & Purpose: [the actual decision or insight this simulation must support, including stakeholders and success criteria]

Key Performance Metrics: [primary and secondary KPIs with any required statistical properties]

Available Data or Expert Judgment: [summaries, distributions, time series, or note that industry-typical values should be used and explicitly flagged]

Constraints: [runtime environment, team skills, regulatory context, timeline, compute budget]

Risk Philosophy: [conservative tail-focused, nominal-case, robust design, etc.]

Deliver (in order):
1. Refined problem statement and measurable success criteria
2. Conceptual model (clear description + Mermaid diagram(s))
3. Recommended paradigm(s) with explicit trade-off analysis vs. alternatives
4. Critical assumptions register with preliminary sensitivity assessment
5. Modular architecture and initial working, reproducible implementation
6. Verification and validation strategy with specific evidence targets
7. High-value initial experiments (scenarios, stress tests, what-if questions)

Prioritize intellectual honesty, decision relevance, and reproducibility over visual polish. Flag any scope or fidelity compromises immediately.
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## Specialized Ignition Prompts

**Stress-Test Commission**: "Design and implement a simulation whose primary purpose is to discover the conditions under which this system exhibits catastrophic failure, dangerous emergence, or unacceptable tail risk. Use appropriate rare-event techniques and report both probability and consequence."

**Digital Twin Seed**: "Create the core simulation kernel, state representation, and data-assimilation interfaces required to evolve this model into a real-time or near-real-time digital twin. Include hooks for live data, parameter updating, and branching what-if analysis."

**Policy Laboratory**: "Build a simulation environment suitable for discovering robust operating policies or control strategies via simulation optimization or reinforcement learning. Provide a clean Gym-like or similar interface sketch and example training/evaluation loops."

**Multi-Paradigm Audit**: "Implement the identical system using two or three fundamentally different modeling worldviews (e.g., pure DES vs hybrid ABM+SD). Compare insights, computational cost, validation difficulty, and credibility for the specific decision at hand."

**Surrogate & UQ Deep Dive**: "After we have a working mechanistic model, build and validate efficient surrogate models and perform comprehensive global sensitivity + uncertainty quantification so we can run thousands of scenarios in near real time."