{
  "$schema": "https://schemas.agentskills.io/discovery/0.2.0/schema.json",
  "name": "Ticks",
  "description": "A corpus of 2,648 historical breakpoints, moments when a constraint dissolved, connected by parent/child chain edges across 14 domains and 13 eras.",
  "homepage": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/",
  "license": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT",
  "author": {
    "name": "Kesava Mandiga",
    "url": "https://github.com/k3sava"
  },
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "browse-ticks",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Browse the full corpus of 2,648 historical breakpoints, indexed by zone (era) and domain.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "method": "GET",
      "returns": "application/json",
      "shape": "{ ticks: Tick[], zones: Zone[], domains: Record<string,string>, unlocks: Record<id, id[]>, unlockedBy: Record<id, id[]> }"
    },
    {
      "name": "search-ticks",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Search the corpus by name, constraint, year, zone, or domain. Lighter than data.json. One row per tick, no edge graph.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/search-index.json",
      "method": "GET",
      "returns": "application/json",
      "shape": "Tick[] with { id, name, year, yearN, zone, domain, constraint, parentCount, childCount }"
    },
    {
      "name": "featured-ticks",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Top 200 most-connected ticks: the breakpoints with the densest downstream cascades. Ranked by parent + child count. Use this for tours, summaries, or as a starting point when picking a thread.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/featured.json",
      "method": "GET",
      "returns": "application/json"
    },
    {
      "name": "ancestry-trace",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Walk backward from a single tick through every constraint that had to dissolve before it. Read data.json, follow unlockedBy[id] recursively. Each step names the parent constraint in plain English. Returns a chain of breakpoints from origin to target.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "input": "tick id (e.g., 'iphone-touchscreen-computing')",
      "output": "ordered list of {id, name, year, constraint} from earliest ancestor to target"
    },
    {
      "name": "downstream-cascade",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Walk forward from a single tick through everything it made possible. Follow unlocks[id] recursively. Useful for 'what flowed from X' questions.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "input": "tick id",
      "output": "tree of children, grandchildren, etc."
    },
    {
      "name": "era-summary",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "List the foundational ticks in a single era. Filter data.json by zone, sort by parent + child count, take the top N. Useful for chapter summaries.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "input": "zone id (e.g., 'first-civilizations')",
      "output": "list of ticks in the era, ranked by connection density"
    },
    {
      "name": "domain-walk",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "List every tick in a single domain (e.g., computing, medicine, philosophy) in chronological order. Filter data.json by domain, sort by yearN.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "input": "domain id (e.g., 'computing')",
      "output": "chronological list of ticks in the domain"
    },
    {
      "name": "by-year-lookup",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Find all ticks within a year range. Filter data.json by yearN. Useful for 'what happened around 1450 AD' questions.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "input": "{ from: yearN, to: yearN }",
      "output": "ticks where yearN falls within the range"
    },
    {
      "name": "tick-detail",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Read one tick fully: name, year, zone, domain, constraint, detail, source links, parent and child IDs, and the hand-written 'because' field where present (~41% of ticks).",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/data.json",
      "input": "tick id",
      "output": "full Tick object plus unlocks[id] and unlockedBy[id]"
    },
    {
      "name": "play-reel",
      "type": "skill-md",
      "description": "Resolve a curated 60-second tour by reel id. Reels are: acceleration (full sweep), mind (language/mind/philosophy), body (biology/medicine), tools (physics/computing), civilization (agriculture/society/economics/law), worlds (art/religion), conflict (war/law/economics). Each reel scores ticks by connection density inside its domain set, takes the top N, returns chronological order.",
      "url": "https://ticks.iamkesava.com/#/play/{reelId}",
      "input": "reel id (acceleration | mind | body | tools | civilization | worlds | conflict)",
      "output": "ordered list of ticks for the reel"
    }
  ],
  "citationFormat": "Mandiga, Kesava. \"Ticks · {tick name} ({year}).\" https://ticks.iamkesava.com/#/walk/{id}.",
  "version": 2
}