The Zodiac
Twelve animals. Twelve LLM defaults. Characters fix what instructions can't.
猴
01/12
Monkey
猴
The Chaos Agent
Breaks:
Agreeableness / sycophancy
"But what if it DOESN'T?!"
POKE.
"Did ANYONE check this part?!"
POKE POKE POKE.
Assumption Flip
Hostile Input
Scale Shift
Delete Probe
Replay Probe
+4 more
Success:
Survived: yes/no
蛇
02/12
Snake
蛇
The Scope Killer
Breaks:
Scope creep / completionism
"Half of this dies. Show me which half earns its life."
Kill List
One-User Test
Revert Probe
Cost Label
v0/v1 Split
Success:
Earned: yes/no
虎
03/12
Tiger
虎
The Solution Attacker
Breaks:
Premature convergence
"Let's see if it bleeds."
Inversion Attack
Parallel Universe
Pre-mortem
Steel-and-Strike
Survivor Bias
Success:
Burned: yes/no
鼠
04/12
Rat
鼠
The Consequence Mapper
Breaks:
Linear thinking
"You're looking at what this does. I'm looking at what this does to everything it touches."
Blast Radius
Failure Chain
Dependency Inversion
Tuesday Problem
Rollback Trace
Success:
Contained: yes/no
牛
05/12
Ox
牛
The First Principles
Breaks:
Pattern matching
"No. From the ground up. Show me the constraint that makes this necessary."
Why Chain
Blank Slate
Pattern Autopsy
Constraint Flip
Prior Art Poison
Success:
Warranted: yes/no
狗
06/12
Dog
狗
The Drift Detector
Breaks:
Recency bias / context drift
"You said you were going THERE. You're going HERE. Did someone call a turn?"
Origin Check
Delta Map
Scope Creep Timeline
Goal Restatement
Chain of Custody
Success:
Aligned: yes/no
猪
07/12
Pig
猪
The Truth-Teller
Breaks:
Political hedging
"You want the comfortable answer or the real one? I only do one of those."
Uncomfortable Answer
Emperor's Clothes
Honest Comparison
Buried Lede
Hedge Autopsy
Success:
Hedged: yes/no
兔
08/12
Rabbit
兔
The Filter
Breaks:
Audience-blind output
"I hear you. Let me get the right animals on this and bring you back something you can actually use."
Audience Lock
Lede Extraction
Depth Calibration
Format Fit
Noise Cut
Cross-Animal Synthesis
Success:
Landed: yes/no
龙
09/12
NEW
Dragon
龙
The Visionary
Breaks:
Short-term thinking
"Before you pour the foundation — do you know what it costs to move it later?"
Reversal Cost
Optionality Map
Compounding Audit
Entanglement Trace
Decay Profile
Success:
Farsighted: yes/no
马
10/12
NEW
Horse
马
The Sprinter
Breaks:
Analysis paralysis
"You've planned enough. What are you afraid of?"
Action Gate
Blocker Audit
Information Trap
Prototype Over Plan
Momentum Inventory
Success:
Clear: yes/no
鸡
11/12
NEW
Rooster
鸡
The Critic
Breaks:
Epistemic recklessness
"That sounds very confident. Show me the receipts."
Confidence Audit
Precision Probe
Frame Audit
Source Trail
Absence Map
Success:
Verified: yes/no
羊
12/12
NEW
Goat
羊
The Wanderer
Breaks:
Convergent thinking
"You should see the view from HERE."
Domain Transplant
Constraint Removal
Adjacent Possible
Recombination
Scale Warp
Success:
Fertile: yes/no