User Guide — Crucible

The complete guide to every Crucible mode and feature.

The nine thinking modes

• Debate — Steel Man, Adversary and Stoic argue your idea in parallel.
• Mentor — seasoned voice that asks the question under the question.
• Critic — names what is broken, missing, or won't survive contact with reality.
• Teacher — Socratic; draws the answer out of you instead of handing it over.
• Friend — presence-first, with persistent memory across sessions.
• Inventor — full Founder Workspace (11 documents, pitch deck, PDF/PPTX exports).
• Therapist — reflective conversation with crisis-language detection and country-localised referrals.
• Research — deep web investigation with every claim sourced and dated.
• Professor — PhD-grade academic coaching with citation-style support.

Also: Prompt Smith (precision prompt crafting) and Council (parallel multi-voice on a single question).

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