PDCA / CAPD Compass Card
SkillMonitoring & opsCreate Chinese monospaced compass-style PDCA or CAPD problem-solving cards using East-West-South-North-Center layout, full-width and half-width spaces, diagonal Unicode arrows, and strict Chinese character limits. Use when Codex needs to turn a problem, incident, decision tradeoff, root-cause analysis, improvement cycle, or CAPD/PDCA workflow into a square text diagram, Hermes/Discord-ready card, or Chinese 方位九宮圖 with center ◎, north Plan, east Do, south Check, west Action, and four diagonal transition arrows.
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Then ask your AI: use the PDCA / CAPD Compass Card skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by twhsi/skills in skills/pdca/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use this skill to transform a problem into a Chinese text diagram shaped like a compass: North, East, South, West, four diagonal arrows, and a center ◎ core. The output should feel like a fixed-width visual card, not a prose explanation.
Core Rules
- Use a fenced
textcode block for the final diagram. - Prefer Chinese labels and short phrases.
- Use full-width spaces
for large horizontal alignment and half-width spaces only for small adjustments. - Keep the center phrase at 8 Chinese characters or fewer, prefixed with
◎. - Keep each outer compass phrase at 8 Chinese characters or fewer when the user requests strict eight-character limits.
- Make the diagram readable in a monospaced environment such as Discord, Hermes, terminal, or Markdown preview.
- Avoid over-explaining inside the diagram. Let placement, arrows, and labels carry the structure.
Compass Mapping
- North
北:【P|Plan 計畫】for goals, options, choices, hypotheses, and intended destination. - East
東:【D|Do 執行】for concrete measures, steps,现场 action, and use of methods. - South
南:【C|Check 檢查】for facts, results, confirmation, and next-cycle evidence. - West
西:【A|Action 改善】for cause discovery, root-cause pursuit, correction, and institutional repair. - Center
中:【◎核心】for the problem essence, incident, contradiction, or decision point.
For CAPD, the cycle begins at Check:
Check -> Action -> Plan -> Do -> Check- Use CAPD when the task starts from現況認識, incident confirmation, observation, or evidence.
For PDCA, the cycle begins at Plan:
Plan -> Do -> Check -> Action -> Plan- Use PDCA when the task starts from a goal, plan, proposal, or project improvement loop.
Arrow Rules
Use 45-degree Unicode arrows at the four corners:
↗means Action -> Plan: root causes become better plans.↘means Plan -> Do: plans become concrete execution.↙means Do -> Check: execution produces results to inspect.↖means Check -> Action: inspection returns to root-cause improvement.
Place arrows between the compass quadrants with enough full-width spacing to preserve the visual loop.
Output Template
Adapt this template. Keep line lengths visually balanced rather than mathematically perfect.
北
【P|Plan 計畫】
方案一:____
方案二:____
選 擇:____
↗ ↘
西【A|Action】 中【◎核心】 東【D|Do】
原因發現 ◎____ 手段活用
──────── ──────── ────────
____ ____ ____
____ ____ ____
____ ____ ____
↖ ↙
【C|Check 檢查】
事 實:____
結 果:____
下一輪:____
南
Construction Workflow
- Extract the center problem as a phrase of 8 Chinese characters or fewer.
- Decide whether the loop is CAPD or PDCA from the user's starting point.
- Fill the four directions:
- Plan: options, desired end state, chosen principle.
- Do: immediate measures and executable steps.
- Check: confirmed facts, result state, what to inspect next.
- Action: causes, failures, root-cause questions, recurrence prevention.
- Compress each phrase until it fits the requested width.
- Render a single
textcode block with full-width spacing and arrows. - If helpful, add a brief note after the diagram listing the cycle order and any assumptions.
Phrase Compression
When content is too long, compress meaning before widening the diagram:
老虎已經逃出籠子->老虎逃走人命安全與動物保護之間的取捨->人獸取捨封鎖現場並避免民眾靠近->封鎖現場防止同類事件再次發生->防止再發
Prefer four-character and six-character Chinese compounds when possible. Use eight characters only when needed.
Example
北
【P|Plan 計畫】
方案A:人命尊重
方案B:動物愛護
選 擇:先保人命
↗ ↘
西【A|Action】 中【◎核心】 東【D|Do】
原因發現 ◎老虎逃走 手段活用
──────── ──────── ────────
管理失誤 人獸危險 封鎖現場
機制失效 取捨判斷 搜尋活捉
根因追究 安全優先 必要處置
↖ ↙
【C|Check 檢查】
事 實:老虎逃出
結 果:安全控制
下一輪:防止再發
南
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- Last commit
- Jul 2026
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