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Aphorisms

Curated aphorism collection with CRUD: content-based matching, themed search, thinker research, and usage tracking to avoid repeating quotes. USE WHEN aphorism, quote, find a quote, research thinker, add aphorism, quote for newsletter, what did X say about, quote bank. NOT FOR creative writing, social posts, or the principal's own published words.

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# Aphorisms

**Contents:** Ideal State · Intent Routing · Data & Config · Database · Taxonomy · Gotchas · Examples

Curated aphorism store with full CRUD. Its main job is a newsletter's recurring quote (an Aphorism of the Week, say): candidate quotes matched to that edition's themes that avoid recently used ones. It also adds quotes, searches the collection, and researches a thinker's quotes. Every intent reads and writes one collection file (§ Database), whose Theme Index and Newsletter Usage History keep quotes findable and fresh.

## Ideal State

- Every quote the skill returns or stores is attributed and verified: a misattributed or unverifiable quote is marked Unknown or Disputed, never asserted.
- Recommendations and search results match the request's themes, tone and query, best first (recommendations with their scores), and recommendations avoid quotes with a recent recorded use.
- Every addition, research batch and newsletter use lands in the database in the entry formats under § Database, with the Theme Index and the usage history updated in the same pass, so the other intents find it immediately.

## Intent Routing