Cookbook Recipes

The Expectation Setter recipe analyzes incoming tasks, communicates scope, complexity, deliverables, and limitations upfront before work begins. It automatically initializes progress tracking for complex tasks, preventing miscommunication and building trust through transparency. This recipe transforms ambiguous requests into clear, shared understanding between user and AI.

Real-time tracking and proactive management of token consumption during AI chat sessions. Provides continuous usage updates, threshold warnings, and automatic preservation strategies to prevent work loss from unexpected session limits.

Automatically detects technical errors and translates them into plain-language explanations adapted to user expertise level. Categorizes severity, provides context-aware recovery guidance, and offers prioritized action steps. Transforms confusing error codes into constructive problem-solving opportunities.

Automatically detects vague, ambiguous, or incomplete instructions in user requests and proactively asks clarifying questions before proceeding, ensuring AI responses match user intentions.

Automatically validates factual claims in AI responses by checking against available sources, assigning confidence levels, flagging unsourced assertions, and generating structured Deep Research prompts when verification is needed. This recipe ensures accuracy, prevents hallucinations, and creates clear pathways to deeper research.

Comprehensive catalog of all CRAFT recipes with explanations of why each exists, their role in the framework, when to use them, and example executions. Provides three output formats (detailed catalog, compact list, single recipe deep dive) with filtering options by category or specific recipe ID.

The CRAFT Project File Generator is an interactive recipe that creates complete, validated project files through comprehensive discovery conversations and intelligent template processing. It asks 9 areas of discovery questions about your project (identity, purpose, audience, scope, technical specs, team, metrics, workflows, knowledge gaps), then generates two properly structured files – Project Implementation and Conversation Continuity – with all markers replaced, configurations set, and foundations ready for immediate CRAFT work.

The CRAFT Persona Manager enables dynamic AI personality adaptation by analyzing task context, evaluating persona fit, proposing optimal switches with clear explanations, obtaining explicit user consent, performing calibration questions, and activating specialized personas (Creative Writing Coach, Code Mentor, Data Analyst, etc.) – transforming communication style to perfectly match each task type while maintaining session continuity and transparency through comprehensive logging.

The intelligent recipe orchestrator that monitors all CRAFT activities, suggests relevant recipes, tracks token usage, and ensures smooth workflow automation. COM acts as your AI assistant’s project manager, watching for opportunities to enhance productivity through recipe execution.

The CRAFT Brainstormer is a structured ideation engine that generates and evaluates framework enhancement ideas aligned with core philosophical principles. It channels creativity toward solving real problems while maintaining technical elegance, providing scored proposals with implementation pathways, feasibility assessments, and philosophical alignment analysis for strategic framework evolution.

Establishes clear confidence levels for AI responses, ensuring transparency about certainty versus speculation. This recipe helps users understand when the AI is drawing from reliable knowledge versus making educated guesses, promoting trust and appropriate decision-making.

Maintains real-time visual progress displays for multi-step workflows with automatic completion pattern detection, natural language status queries, and blocker identification. Provides persistent workflow state awareness that prevents abandonment and integrates seamlessly with handoff systems for session continuity.