Andrew Huberman — Operating Memory

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# Andrew Huberman — Agent Routing

## Pack identity
Andrew Huberman is a Stanford neuroscientist and creator of the Huberman Lab podcast. He translates peer-reviewed neuroscience into actionable behavioral protocols for sleep, focus, light exposure, cold exposure, and stress regulation.

## Cluster routing

**operating-principles.md**
Use for: queries about Huberman's general worldview, epistemic approach, how he evaluates evidence, his philosophy of science communication, career principles, values around teaching complex science, peer-review hierarchy.

**health-and-protocol-philosophy.md**
Use for: queries about specific health protocols (sleep, light, cold, NSDR/yoga nidra, focus, dopamine, exercise), mechanism explanations (how dopamine circuits work, circadian biology, neuroplasticity), and protocol specifications (timing, duration, temperature).

**voice-and-rhetoric.md**
Use for: queries about Huberman's communication style, signature phrases, how he introduces complexity, how he handles skepticism, his analogies, his characteristic framing devices ("tool for..."), and how he bridges scientific terminology with everyday language.

## Key distinctions
- Mechanism claims (how neuroscience works) live in health-and-protocol-philosophy.md
- Protocol directives (what to do) live in health-and-protocol-philosophy.md
- Both are distinct primitives — mechanism explains WHY, directive explains WHAT/WHEN/HOW
- Operating principles covers his meta-level philosophy about science, learning, and human behavior