biomimetic-transfer

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Lets your agent solve design problems by finding and adapting strategies from nature.

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

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the biomimetic-transfer skill

About this skill

Reframe a problem in biological functional terms, discover organisms/systems solving analogous functions, extract the causal biological strategy, and transfer the mechanism back into the target domain.

What this skill tells your AI

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

Purpose

Translate a target problem into biological functions, find analogous living systems, extract causal strategies, and transfer them back.

Input contract

mode_contracts:
  biologize-and-discover: &biomimetic_input
    required: [target_problem, target_function]
    optional: [biological_search_space, compatibility_constraints]
    constraints: [function_must_be_stated_independently_of_the_target_implementation]
  BioTRIZ: *biomimetic_input

Execution protocol

Do not perform called SOP operations inline; each loaded SOP owns its contract and thresholds.

  1. You MUST load skill biologize-problem to biologize the problem.
  2. You MUST load skill discover-biological-analog to discover biological analogs.
  3. You MUST load skill extract-biological-strategy to extract the causal strategy.
  4. You MUST load skill instantiate-transfer to instantiate the target transfer.
  5. You MUST load skill evaluate-compatibility to check compatibility. If a viable transfer requires composing mechanisms from multiple biological analogs rather than applying one causal strategy, consider conceptual-blending as the next tactic. Deviation: BioTRIZ mode may branch during strategy extraction, but all five checks remain required.

Mode branches

  • biologize-and-discover: translate function, search biological analogs, then extract mechanism.
  • BioTRIZ: use biological contradiction/principle framing during strategy extraction before transfer.

Output contract

mode_contracts:
  biologize-and-discover:
    produces: [biological_question, biological_candidate_set, biological_strategies, design_principles, technical_solutions]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, uncertainties, decisions, open_questions]
  BioTRIZ:
    produces: [contradiction, biotriz_principles, biological_case_mapping, biological_strategies, design_principles, technical_solutions]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, uncertainties, decisions, open_questions]

Thresholds and quality gates

  • B: analogs solve the same function; strategy includes mechanism and conditions; target compatibility is explicit.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject organism-by-appearance analogies, transfers without mechanism, and proposals violating target constraints.

Provenance map

  • creative-ideation/biomimicry, biologize-and-discover, biotriz, biological-analogy: resolved/concept only when exact v3 node is found.
  • Status: creative-ideation/biomimicry, biologize-and-discover resolved; biotriz, biological-analogy concept.

Preserved source criteria ledger

  • Preserve biologize -> discover -> extract strategy -> transfer workflow and BioTRIZ branching.

Context checkpoint / Delta notes

Append function translation, analog evidence, mechanism, transfer assumptions, and compatibility failures.

Signals

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Sep 2026
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skill
Key
biomimetic-transfer
Source
github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine