Two Pillars Protocol · Evaluation
A 90-second reflex check on how you actually work with AI. In Mixer mode you hold several criteria live within a single act of judgment; in hats mode you take them one at a time. Nine quick questions, no right answers, scored on your device.
For decades the cost of producing correct code forced expert practitioners to serialize attention into discrete roles — one “hat” at a time. As AI agents absorb execution, that constraint dissolves. Mixer mode is the cognitive model for what comes next: multiple axes of judgment held simultaneously open at modulated levels, the way a sound engineer rides several channels of a mixing console.
It is not multitasking. Running many agents or tabs in parallel is the observable orchestration surface; without the underlying cognition it degrades into mechanical dispatching. The mode is depth of criteria within a single object of attention.
This quiz is the fast, individual entry point. The full Two Pillars Protocol is a ~30-minute instrument that measures your Mixer profile against your organization’s meta-software readiness.