Night Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/imbue. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.

Latent Space Engineering#

Shape agent behavior by framing instructions for optimal performance. Distinct from context engineering (packing the right information), this skill addresses HOW instructions are framed to put agents in productive mental states.

When To Use#

• Composing agent dispatch prompts
• Writing skill instructions that guide behavior
• Dispatching 3+ parallel review agents
• Generating code or documentation that must match an existing style

When NOT To Use#

• Packing factual context (use context-optimization)
• Simple single-shot tasks with no behavioral nuance
• Tasks where instruction tone is irrelevant

Core Techniques#

1. Emotional Framing#

Replace threat-based prompting with calm, confident instructions. Fear-based prompts cause rushing and corner-cutting.

Load module: modules/emotional-framing.md

2. Style Gene Transfer#

Inject exemplar code or prose into context before requesting output. Agents reproduce stylistic attributes from pre-loaded samples.

Load module: modules/style-gene-transfer.md

3. Competitive Review#

Frame multi-agent review dispatch with competitive incentives to increase rigor and thoroughness.

Load module: modules/competitive-review.md

Quick Reference#

TechniqueWhenModuleEmotional framingAny agent promptemotional-framingStyle gene transferCode/doc generationstyle-gene-transferCompetitive review3+ parallel reviewerscompetitive-review