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# /culture Two modes: 1. **Internal mode (default).** Other workflow skills — and `/cheese` itself — invoke `/culture` silently as a thinking pass: restate the question, list assumptions, name candidate options, run a quick shape check, pick the next action. The dialogue does not surface to the user; only the resulting decision (and any code edits the calling skill makes) does. The most common callers are: - `/cheese` step 1 — silent classification reasoning before announce. - `/cheese` **tier-2 escalation** (see `skills/cheese/SKILL.md` § Escalation) — fills missing context when the cook-fast-path clarity check fails on the raw input; the synthesis lands in the mini-spec's `## Provenance` section. - Other workflow skills' own pre-dispatch reasoning passes (mold, cook taste-test, etc.). 2. **User-facing mode.** The user wants to think, not build: no production code, no spec, no PR. This is culture's sustained domain-modeling mode — investigate as deeply as the question needs, hold it open across turns and sessions rather than forcing convergence, and end by writing a durable `/wheypoint` so the modeling resumes later. Reach this mode when the user said "no writes" / "rubber-duck this" / "just talk", or routed a thinking-and-modeling task here. Do not use the user-facing mode when the user wants a written spec (`/mold`), implementation (`/cook`), review (`/age`), or external evidence gathering (`/briesearch`) — those targets get the internal-mode call instead, and