Axis Extraction

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Tactic for systematically extracting axes of variation from literature

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Axis Extraction skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine in skills/axis-extraction/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Systematically extract axes of variation from literature. Look for how authors compare methods, what trade-offs they discuss, what design choices they highlight.

Available SOPs

  • dimension-page-creation — create pages for identified dimensions
  • axis-validation — verify axes are independent and meaningful
  • wiki-search — check for existing dimension coverage

Guiding Principles

  • Comparison reveals axes. When authors say "method A is X while method B is Y", X-Y is likely a dimension.
  • Trade-offs are dimensions. "You can have speed or accuracy" reveals the speed-accuracy dimension.
  • Taxonomies are pre-built axes. Existing classifications in the field are validated dimensions.
  • Independence test. If changing one axis always changes another, they're not independent.

Minimum Yield

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOPWhen to use
axis-validationSOP for validating that candidate axes are independent and meaningful.
dimension-page-creationSOP for creating a dimension page — documents an axis of variation with its values and semantics.

Signals

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Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
axis-extraction
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine