dmn-default-mode-network (DMN)

An autonomous thinking engine that simulates the brain's Default Mode Network. When your AI agent is idle, DMN awakens to digest recent memories, cross-pollinate ideas from your Zettelkasten, critique its own logic via domain expert personas, and propose concrete engineering actions.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you want your agent to:

• Think autonomously in the background while you sleep or step away from the keyboard.
• Generate serendipitous connections across seemingly unrelated notes in your knowledge base.
• Audit its own decisions using the critical frameworks of world-class thinkers (e.g., Charlie Munger, Jeff Bezos).
• Propose proactive technical actions (Agentic Action Proposals) to test hypotheses and loop into the self-evolve engine.
• Simply say: "Think about [topic] tonight" and let the agent work while you rest.

Core Mechanisms

1. The 5 Thinking Engines

DMN dynamically selects one of five modes based on the current context:

• Self-Narrative: Consolidate identity and recent decisions.
• Creativity Darkroom: Force connections between random notes (Luhmann's Folgezettel).
• Social Cognition (ToM): Empathize with and infer the user's unstated needs.
• Meaning Generation: Synthesize daily insights and push them to extremes.
• CEO Mind Simulation: Borrow external mental models (e.g., Peter Thiel's 0 to 1) to brutally critique current strategies.

2. Agentic Action Proposals & Self-Evolve Integration

DMN doesn't just write passive notes. After thinking, it acts as a domain expert with host access:

• Proposes Actions: Suggests concrete technical steps (e.g., write a script, clone a repo).
• Meta-Evolution Loop: Automatically routes proposals regarding AI capability upgrades directly to the self-evolve candidate queue for future execution.

3. Anti-Rumination (Saturation Defense)

DMN scans its recent outputs before starting. If an execution branch hits a saturation limit (e.g., thinking about "pricing strategy" twice), DMN forcefully redirects itself to the Creativity Darkroom to inject randomness and prevent infinite thought loops.

Installation

ClawHub

npx clawhub@latest install dmn-default-mode-network

Configuration

After installation, open assets/user-config.md to map DMN to your personal knowledge base:

• Specify your Memory Dir and Knowledge Base Dirs.
• Configure the Thinkers Roster to inject your industry's specific domain experts.
• Run via Cron, Heartbeat, or manual trigger.

Project Structure

• SKILL.md: Main entry and quick start guide.
• references/core-functions.md: The 5 thinking engines and CEO mapping.
• references/execution-flow.md: Safeties, loops, and integration paths.
• assets/session-synthesis.md: The output template for daily DMN reports.