# Neon Genie — Premiere thesis

**The Hermes skill for governed opportunity and product intelligence.**

Not more ideas. **Better decisions under uncertainty.**

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## What “premiere of its type” means

| Goal | Neon Genie wins when… |
|------|------------------------|
| **Trust density** | Operators trust it more than idea-agents because it refuses fantasy, labels claims, and fails closed |
| **Outcome density** | Packets define externally checkable proof and survive contact with reality |
| **Category ownership** | “Use neon-genie for X” is the default Hermes phrase for governed invention / product intent |

**Conflict rule:** Find public facts → **request** private facts → only then `NOT_COMPUTABLE`. Never invent `OBSERVED`.

**Priority stack:** Evidence-seeking honesty → Outcomes → Category.

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## Why not generic product chat / “startup GPT”?

| Typical idea agent | Neon Genie |
|--------------------|------------|
| Invents freely; sounds confident | Invents under gates; sounds careful |
| Mixes user, buyer, payer | Separates roles or fails Gate C |
| Prices and market sizes without sources | Labels `SPECULATIVE` / `NOT_COMPUTABLE` |
| Skips missing private data | Emits `DataRequest` |
| “Ship it” energy | **Advisory only** — no spend/publish/execute |
| Unstable handoffs to eng | Wayfinder packets freeze product intent |

Neon Genie is optimized to be **harder to impress** and **more decision-useful**, not louder.

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## Category definition

| Neon Genie **is** | Neon Genie **is not** |
|-------------------|------------------------|
| Hermes-native skill for opportunity & product intelligence | Kubrick (cinematic / symbolic dramaturgy) |
| Evidence-bound invention + product architecture | Wayfinder (work decomposition / eng execution) |
| Fail-closed, claim-labeled, handoff-ready | A Python product-reasoning engine |
| Find / request / refuse | Auto-spend, auto-outreach, canon promotion |

Sibling of **Kubrick** (shared packaging architecture). Handoff peer of **Wayfinder** (intent vs implementation).

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## Signature loop

```text
OPEN → ALIGN → ASCEND → CLEAR → SEAL
```

With:

1. **Research** — proactive when public facts improve the decision  
2. **DataRequest** — when private facts block the decision  
3. **completion_proof** — what the world must show for success  
4. **Learning ledger** — PROPOSED observations only after real contact  

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## Proof of maturity (shipping surface)

| Layer | Command / path |
|-------|----------------|
| Install (community) | `hermes skills install scrimshawlife-ctrl/NeonGenie/skills/neon-genie` |
| Install (clone) | `./install.sh` → `~/.hermes/skills/neon-genie` |
| Site | https://scrimshawlife-ctrl.github.io/NeonGenie/ |
| Integrity | `python scripts/neon_genie.py do check` |
| Privacy | `python scripts/neon_genie.py do privacy --json` |
| Gate evals | `python scripts/neon_genie.py do eval` |
| Prose goldens | `python scripts/neon_genie.py do transcripts` |
| Recipes | `python scripts/neon_genie.py do recipe --list` (includes `capital-sprint`) |
| Outcomes | `python scripts/neon_genie.py do learn …` |
| Design | `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-30-neon-genie-premiere-program-design.md` |

These commands prove packaging and fixture soundness; live multi-turn Hermes judgment remains a separate maturity track. Current packaging line: **3.25.0**.

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## 10-minute demo

See **[DEMO.md](./DEMO.md)**.

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## Example gallery

Sanitized packaging exemplars: **[examples/gallery/README.md](../examples/gallery/README.md)**.

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## Non-goals

- Winning by volume of ideas  
- Category marketing that overclaims execution  
- Merging with Kubrick’s cinematic domain  
- Auto-canon or auto-spend  

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*Applied Alchemy Labs / Zero State · MIT · advisory only*