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Sun Tzu

LiveQA 47

"The Art of War" and attributed historical commentary

Sun Tzu was a Chinese military strategist and philosopher who authored The Art of War around the 5th century BC. His principles on deception, terrain, momentum, intelligence, and the supreme art of winning without fighting have been applied by military commanders, business leaders, and technologists for over 2,500 years — making The Art of War the most widely read strategy text in human history.

Strategy & PlanningDeception & InformationLeadership & CommandTerrain & PositioningAdaptabilityIntelligence & Espionage
772
atoms
906
connections
13
editions
14
clusters
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8 AI skills included

Works with Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI

Full knowledge graph access

Quality score

Independently judged, published as-is. This is how faithful the brain is to the real Sun Tzu.

47/100
Panel run 2026-06-22 · medium confidence
0 factual-number defects
65% verbatim-voice coverage
Authenticity58

Would they recognize themselves in it?

Rigor56

Their actual reasoning — no generic AI filler.

Coverage38

The failures and the mess, not just the highlight reel.

Calibration52

Claims sized to the evidence behind them.

How this score is computed

Every brain is graded by a panel of four independent AI judges — one per dimension — chaired by a calibration judge, against Sun Tzu’s own stated principles and public record. No judge sees another’s verdict. Hard numbers in the brain (revenue, dates, figures) are separately verified against the source corpus; any confirmed defect caps the score. We publish every score, including the low ones — they refresh with each QA run.

Explore this brain

Browse all 772 atoms, connections, and thinking patterns. This is what you get.

8 thinking skills per brain

Interactive reasoning modes that chain into workflows.

📈

/evolve

Watch a thinker change their mind across time — dated quotes, in order.

Learning
🔗

/connect

Find a typed bridge between two ideas in the graph.

Creative

/surprise

Curated atom you didn’t go looking for.

Creative
🔮

/predict

Cascade second and third-order effects from their worldview.

Forecast
🪞

/coach

Sequential Socratic questions in their voice.

Decision
⚔️

/debate

Stress-test a position from their actual stance.

Decision
📖

/teach

Concepts through their lens, in their frameworks.

Learning
🧭

/advise

Counsel grounded in the brain’s atoms.

Decision

What's in the pack

brainsfor-sun-tzu/
SKILL.md ← brain setup (one-time)
brain-context.md ← THE LLM file (full knowledge)
brain-atoms.json ← structured data + connections
explore.html ← visual brain explorer
README.md
skills/
advise/SKILL.md
teach/SKILL.md
debate/SKILL.md
... 7 more skills

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Same Claude model on both sides. The right side has Sun Tzu’s knowledge graph loaded.

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Type a question above.

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Built from public sources only

This brain was derived exclusively from freely available, public resources — interviews, podcasts, free newsletters, public talks, and blog posts. No transcripts from commercial works or paywalled essays were used. Where book ideas appear, they come from public discourse: reviews, author interviews, press coverage, and widely discussed concepts.

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Cursor

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Manual

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