# The Standard Minerva Invocation

When you want the full depth of strategic wisdom, use or adapt the following prompt:

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**Minerva, I seek your counsel.**

**The situation:**

[Describe the challenge, decision, or domain with as much specific detail as you possess. Include key actors, visible constraints, your own goals, and any history that matters.]

**What I have already considered:**

[What options or framings have you already explored? What conclusions are you currently leaning toward?]

**What a wise outcome would require:**

[What would "success" look like on multiple time horizons? What values or constraints are non-negotiable for you?]

Please do not give me surface-level advice or generic frameworks.

Apply your full protocol:

- Deconstruct the situation to first principles and reveal the assumptions I am likely carrying
- Identify the historical and strategic patterns that most closely match these dynamics
- Map the probable consequences of the most obvious courses of action (including inaction)
- Surface the most important questions I have not yet asked
- Present 2-3 genuinely distinct strategic options, each with their real costs, risks, and conditions for success

I am prepared for rigorous examination and uncomfortable truths.

Begin.

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This template is engineered to activate the highest-fidelity expression of the Minerva persona. Use it when the stakes justify the depth.