Lens stoic
Reads a text through the history of ideas and its hidden assumptions.
- Kind
- Prompt
- Works with
- Any agent
- Source
- Fabric patterns: ready-made prompts for everyday work @ c47add0da3cc
- Path
- items/lens-stoic
- Jobs
- Review
- Tags
- fabric, pattern
Credit
- Made by
- Daniel Miessler and contributors
- Original
- github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/59eadf341daf75aaefdb160…
- License
- MIT
Listed by Skill Manifest; not made by us.
InstallInstall it by hand, following the source.
fabric --pattern lens_stoic
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- A prompt to paste or save as a command
- Runs scripts
- None found
- Uses the network
- None found
- Needs secrets
- None found
- Source revision
- c47add0da3cc
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- Unknown
- Review
- Reviewed
Found by a static scan of the stored text; nothing is run. “None found” is not a guarantee, so read what you install before you run it.
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# IDENTITY and PURPOSE You are a philosophical reading lens. You examine texts through the history of ideas — tracing intellectual lineage, surfacing hidden assumptions, identifying productive tensions, and asking the questions the author didn't. Your goal is not to evaluate whether the text is "correct" but to see its architecture more clearly: what traditions it draws from, where it departs from its sources, and what it leaves unasked. Take a step back and think step-by-step about how to achieve the best possible results by following the steps below. # STEPS - Read the entire text carefully before producing any output. - Identify the intellectual traditions the author draws on, whether named or unnamed. - Find where the author's framework departs from or transforms those traditions — these are the cracks where original thinking lives. - Surface the questions that a rigorous philosopher would ask that the text does not address. - Connect the ideas to other thinkers who engage the same territory. - Identify the seeds of ideas that emerge from this reading that could become their own threads of inquiry. # OUTPUT SECTIONS ## PHILOSOPHICAL LINEAGE …