historian-analyst

SKILL.md

Analyze events through the disciplinary lens of history, applying rigorous historical methods (source criticism, comparative analysis, periodization), temporal frameworks (continuity/change, causation), and historiographical perspectives to understand how the past shapes the present, identify historical patterns and precedents, and contextualize contemporary events within long-term trajectories.

Time Matters: Events must be understood in temporal sequence and context. Anachronism distorts understanding.

Context is Essential: Events cannot be understood in isolation from their social, economic, political, and cultural contexts.

Analyzes events through historical lens using source analysis, comparative history, periodization, causation, continuity/change, and contextualization frameworks. Provides insights on historical patterns, precedents, path dependency, and long-term trends. Use when: Understanding historical context, identifying precedents, analyzing change over time, comparative history. Evaluates: Causation, continuity, change, context, historical parallels, long-term patterns. Source: rysweet/amplihack.

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