Detect Thoughts

Surface the likely intent, priorities, and concerns behind a communication.

What This Skill Does

In D&D, Detect Thoughts lets you read surface thoughts and probe deeper. The real-world version is intent analysis: figuring out what someone is trying to accomplish based on what they said, how they said it, and what they chose not to say. This is the analytical complement to Insight (which reads subtext intuitively) — Detect Thoughts is more structured and systematic. In this grimoire, Detect Thoughts is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Detect Thoughts (spell).

When To Use

• You have a message, brief, or request and need to systematically extract the sender's priorities, concerns, and unstated goals.
• A requirements document or feature request needs to be decoded: what do they actually need vs. what they asked for?
• You want to prepare for a negotiation or conversation by mapping the other party's likely positions and concerns.

Prerequisites

• No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.

Procedure