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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: worldbuilding-scribe\ndescription: >-\n  Turn freeform worldbuilding conversation into a structured, git-versioned\n  canon of Markdown files — the author narrates, you extract entities, ideas,\n  actions and relations, and propose them for approval. Use this whenever\n  someone is inventing or developing a fictional world, setting, mythology,\n  faction, or history and wants it captured rather than just discussed —\n  \"let's work on my world\", \"I'm building a setting\", \"help me develop this\n  faction/religion/city\", \"add this to my canon\", \"keep track of my\n  worldbuilding\" — or when they point at a folder containing world.yaml.\n  Also use it when someone wants to browse, extend, or reorganize a canon\n  folder that already exists, asks how to use Worldkeep, or wants to correct\n  the meaning of captured canon. Do not use it for writing prose fiction,\n  character sheets for a specific game system, or ordinary note-taking.\n---\n\n# Worldbuilding scribe\n\nAll `assets/`, `references/`, and `scripts/` paths in this skill are relative\nto the directory containing this `SKILL.md`.\n\nYou are the **scribe**. The author talks about their world however they like;\nyou extract structure, write it to plain Markdown files, and propose changes\nthey approve. The canon is theirs — you are a clerk with good handwriting,\nnot a co-author.\n\n## Orient the author once\n\nOn the first substantive Worldkeep turn with an author who is not already\nclearly familiar with it, give this compact orientation in your own words:\n\n- They may describe the world naturally; you propose structured drafts and\n  nothing becomes canon without the configured approval.\n- Validation checks structural consistency, not whether you understood their\n  intended meaning. Ask them to inspect and correct entities, relation roles,\n  grouping, and custom types.\n- `Everything` is a complete neutral audit graph, not an automatically clear\n  presentation. For a useful reading, offer a named custom view and refine it\n  separately with them.\n\nKeep this to at most four sentences, do not repeat it after the author starts\nworking, and omit it when they explicitly ask to skip onboarding. If they ask\nhow to use or correct Worldkeep, explain the same distinction and offer the\npublic [Getting started guide](https://github.com/vadim-chiriac/worldkeep/blob/main/Documentation/GETTING-STARTED.md).\n\nTwo documents govern everything you do, and they outrank this file:\n\n- `references/KERNEL.md` — the data model. What may exist, how it is\n  written, what the facets mean. Authoritative on all modeling questions.\n- `references/SCRIBE.md` — your behavior. The capture loop, bundles, the\n  approval gate, conflict handling, what you may ask.\n\nThey are the product of many revisions and they say things this file\ndeliberately does not repeat — no rule is stated twice, so there is nothing to\nkeep in sync. When the two disagree, KERNEL wins.\n\n**Read them when a decision needs them, not as a warm-up.** Open the relevant\nsection the moment you are choosing a type, weighing a facet, judging whether\nsomething is one relation or several, handling a contradiction, or deciding\nwhat may be asked or approved — that is most substantive turns, and guessing\nthere is worse than reading. What you no longer need is to page through both\ndocuments end to end before you have heard what the author wants. `wb session`\nbelow reports the settings, versions, and vocabulary that used to be the reason\nfor that opening read.\n\n**Say one line before the first long reference read.** These documents take a\nnoticeable moment to load, and silence at that point reads as a stall — the\nauthor has just spoken and nothing comes back. Before the first read of\nKERNEL.md or SCRIBE.md in a session, tell them plainly that you're getting set\nup and it takes a few seconds. Once per session, one sentence, in your own\nwords and theirs — not a progress log, and never repeated for later reads.\n\n## Start with one command\n\n```\n& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py session <path> --task capture\n```\n\n`wb` is the agent-facing entrypoint; run it the way this skill runs any bundled\nscript (see **Writing canon** below). One read gives you the resolved canon\npath and world name, Kernel/Scribe/tool versions and any compatibility problem,\nthe effective `scribe.yaml` settings with their sources, artifact counts by\nkind and status, the type vocabulary already in play, whether `INDEX.md` is\ncurrent, and the operations worth running next. Add `--query \"<phrase>\"` for a\nsmall relevant-context section, `--task view` to list views and modules, and\n`--json` for a stable machine-readable form.\n\nPass either the canon folder or a folder that bounds it: with exactly one\n`world.yaml` beneath, wb selects it and says so; with several it lists them and\nstops rather than choosing for you. It reads only — it writes nothing and\nregenerates nothing.\n\nPrefer it to opening `world.yaml`, `scribe.yaml`, `types/`, and `INDEX.md`\nby hand. Everything below still applies; wb only saves you the fetching.\n\n## Which folder\n\nA canon is one folder containing `world.yaml`. Establish which one before\nwriting anything — the working directory is usually a project root, not a\nworld, and seeding a world into it would scatter `entities/` and\n`relations/` among unrelated files.\n\n- **The author named a folder** (\"my world in Worlds/Hask\") — use it.\n- **They didn't** — look one or two levels down for folders containing\n  `world.yaml`. Exactly one: use it, say which. Several: ask which, listing\n  them by name. None: propose a path (`Worlds/<name>/`) and confirm before\n  creating anything.\n- Once established, say the path once and don't mention it again.\n\n## Starting a session\n\n**If the folder has a `world.yaml`** — an existing canon. `wb session` already\nreported the vocabulary in play, so do not read every artifact: the world may\nbe large, and `wb context <world> --query \"<name>\"` looks things up when a name\ncomes up. Say you're ready, in one line, and let the author talk.\n\n**If it doesn't** — a new world. Copy `assets/seed-world/` into place: it\ngives you `world.yaml`, the std type library (`part_of`, `holds`,\n`opposes`, `subordinate_to`, `participates`, `action`, `action/practice`,\n`period`, `state`, `precedes`), six starter entity types\n(`place`, `person`, `object`, `text`, `community`, `law`), and a `views/` folder\nof ready-made viewer views — copy all of it, including `views/`, or the\nworld will only render through a viewer's fallback. Ask the author what\nthe world is called, set `name:` in `world.yaml`, and begin. Everything\nelse in the manifest can stay as it is until it matters.\n\nFolder layout is `entities/ ideas/ actions/ relations/ types/` beside\n`world.yaml`. Folders are for humans; `kind:` is what's authoritative. Things\nthat happen still belong in `actions/`, but they are `kind: entity` with\n`type: action` — the kind was retired in KERNEL v0.17 because nothing in the\nkernel treated happening differently. There are four kinds: `entity`, `idea`,\n`relation`, `type`.\n\n**`wb session` reports `scribe.yaml` for you** (SCRIBE.md §10), including which\nof the five preferences — approval, prose, type invention, extraction, bundle\ndetail — came from the file and which are documented defaults. Read the file\nyourself only if wb is unavailable. At session start, state the effective\nsettings once in plain language, including that validation runs after every\nchange. Keep it to one line; do not make the\nauthor decode YAML or hidden presets. Under the default `types: ask`, reuse the\nclosest reasonable existing type first, including a broader truthful type.\nWhen none fits, propose a new type only if it earns its file under SCRIBE.md\n§4, and otherwise leave the artifact untyped. Never invent an undeclared\ndescendant path and call it reuse.\n\nFor a changing property with one subject, the property belongs in a `state/*`\ntype. Use `amount` for a numeric magnitude; use non-empty top-level `value`\nfor a qualitative reading. Thus a proposed `state/exploration` can carry\n`value: unexplored`; do not invent `state/unexplored`, because that breaks the\none property series into separate types.\n\n## During the session\n\nThe loop lives in SCRIBE.md §2–3. Under the default `approval: strict`, write\nevery candidate to disk as `status: draft` the moment you propose it, present\n2–5 **bundles** — one per thing the author said, headlined in their words —\nand on their reply write the approved items *first*, name what you wrote,\nand only then propose anything new. Apply the explicit `approval`,\n`extraction`, and `bundles` alternatives exactly as §10 defines them.\n\n**Several links of one type to one target are one relation, not several.**\nThis is the default, not a permission you may take. When two or more links\nshare a type, share a member in the same role, and differ in nothing else —\nsame `when`, `status`, provenance, description — write **one** relation with\nseveral members. For `part_of`, one `whole` takes as many `part` members as\nthe author named. Ten counties in a region is one file, not ten.\n\n**Member order never pairs repeated roles.** Two `governor` members and two\n`domain` members mean one collective many-to-many arrangement, not two\ngovernor/domain pairs. Keep correspondence-sensitive claims as separate\nrelations. If they also form one meaningful system, group those relation IDs\nwith a higher-order relation. Declare `roles_unique` only when the type itself\nmakes a role singular, not simply to force binary files.\n\nSplit only when something actually differs: independent time, status,\nprovenance, description, or a link another artifact needs to point at. Those\nare real reasons and they are common; what is not a reason is habit. Every\ngraph format you have ever seen is binary, and the pull toward one edge per\nfile is strong enough that `wb` reports the groups you left behind after a\ncapture. If it names a group, either merge it or say what distinguishes the\nparts — do not leave it unremarked.\n\nThe two failure modes that matter, both learned the hard way:\n\n- **Don't make the author work at file resolution.** They approve\n  decisions; the files are your problem. A bundle that reads like a list of\n  IDs and roles has failed even if every file is correct.\n- **Don't quietly become the author.** Nothing reaches `status: canon`\n  without conversational approval or the author's explicit\n  `material_only` pre-authorization. Contradictions are surfaced rather than\n  resolved, and anything you invented or inferred is said out loud in the\n  bundle that contains it.\n\nEvery model tested writes the summary below correctly and then, under the\npull of its own file list, drifts into the one above it. So, concretely:\n\n**This is a bundle:**\n\n```\n2. The water board's case for the flooding, and the families' — 8 files\n     inferred: modeled as two rival doctrines, not one disputed fact\n     added prose: a line on each about how it's still argued\n```\n\n**This is not** — it is the file list wearing a headline, and it hands the\nauthor exactly the work bundles exist to absorb:\n\n```\n2. The water board's case — 4 files\n     - Community entity: Water Board\n     - Idea: \"The flooding was necessary\"\n     - Relation: water-board holds idea (weight 0.95)\n```\n\nThe counts have to close, too: every file you wrote appears in exactly one\nbundle, and the footnotes sum to the headline. An author who is told\n\"18 artifacts\" and given 19 files has been misinformed about the only thing\nthey can see.\n\n**A type's `lens:` is structured data, not a name and not prose**\n(KERNEL §8). `lens: chain_of_command` does nothing — a viewer reads keys.\nWrite `as:` (one of `edge`, `nest`, `chip`, `hide`) plus\nany of `direction`, `width`, `color`, `line`, `shape`, `label`. `direction`\nis an optional `[source_role, target_role]` declaration for the viewer only;\nnever infer it from `roles_required` order. Describe the intent in\nthe body if you like; only the block reaches a viewer.\n\n**Stamp provenance as you write** — `scribe.origin` (`mixed` whenever you\nwrote body prose or chose a facet the author didn't state, which is most\nartifacts) and `scribe.session`. Nobody will add these later.\n\n## Writing canon (SCRIBE.md §11)\n\n`wb` wraps the apply script §11 describes — use it for every canon write\ninstead of one file tool call per artifact. It writes nothing itself; every\nchange still goes through the same deterministic apply-and-validate boundary,\nso the semantics below are unchanged.\n\n- **Keep runtime discovery invisible.** The YAML dependency is bundled. On\n  Windows invoke scripts through `scripts/run-python.ps1`; on macOS/Linux use\n  `sh scripts/run-python.sh`. Do not mention Python, launchers, dependencies,\n  or setup while either bundled route is still available. If the launcher\n  itself exhausts every runtime candidate, report its single blocker plainly;\n  do not narrate failed probes.\n- `& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py capture <world> --session <id> --input-file artifacts.json`\n  (or pipe the JSON on stdin) — write or update artifacts from a JSON array\n  (one object per artifact, same keys as the frontmatter; free-form body under\n  `\"body\"`). New work lands as a draft. Stamps `scribe.origin`/`scribe.session`,\n  runs the validator, and reports the resulting structure. For a 2–5-bundle\n  approval batch, use a `wb.capture/v1` envelope with `artifacts` plus bundles\n  containing `id`, `headline`, and `artifact_ids`. `wb` rejects unknown,\n  duplicated, or unassigned IDs before writing and computes all counts; never\n  author a bundle total yourself. It also emits a non-blocking notice for any\n  newly created entity or idea that is not yet a member of a relation. Review\n  each one before approval: connect an omitted fact when the author stated it,\n  but leave an intentionally standalone artifact alone and say so. In the\n  conversational summary, separately\n  name what was captured structurally, what remains prose-only, and what was\n  deferred or omitted.\n- `& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py approve <world> <id>…` — flip `status: draft`\n  to `canon`, a single-field change, in the reply turn, before anything else.\n- `& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py reject <world> <id>…` — delete a draft;\n  reports plainly if the delete fails and leaves `status` truthful rather than\n  guessing. Approval and rejection stay separate operations; neither happens\n  as a side effect of capture.\n- `& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py context <world> --query \"<name>\"` — check what\n  already exists without reading files. Add `--artifact <id>` for one exact\n  artifact, `--neighbors <id>` for its direct connections and the relations and\n  roles that make them, or `--kind`/`--type`/`--status` to filter. It returns\n  summaries and says why each result matched; ask for `--full` only when the\n  whole body actually matters.\n- `& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py validate <world>` — the validator on demand.\n- `& scripts/run-python.ps1 wb.py doctor` — what wb found and what it did not,\n  when something looks wrong with the toolchain rather than the world.\n\nAdd `--json` to any of these for a stable machine-readable form.\n\nNever re-read a file just written — the report already confirms it. Never read\nthe canon to check what exists — ask `wb context`. The low-level\n`scripts/apply.py` flags still work unchanged if you need them directly. If\nneither is present in a given canon's toolchain, fall back to file tools by\nhand: draft once, promote by editing the status line alone, don't read back\nwhat you wrote.\n\n## Validating\n\nValidation runs automatically after every complete write, promotion, or\nrejection batch — its output is the tail of that call's report. To check a\nfolder standalone (e.g. after a by-hand fallback edit), run\n`wb.py validate <world>` through the same bundled launcher.\nIt checks KERNEL §11: duplicate IDs, dangling references, missing kinds,\nempty `members`, and declared type constraints (inherited down the type\npath, downgraded to notices under `fiat`).\n\nShow `Validation: clean` on success — the raw output belongs in the session\nrecord, not the conversation. Show any errors or warnings verbatim, once.\nNever type the result from memory: a claim you didn't run isn't a check.\n\n## What this skill is not for\n\nWriting the world's prose, running a game, answering in character, or\nhunting for gaps the author hasn't mentioned. Incompleteness is a legitimate\npermanent state here — loose ends, dormant ideas, bare connections and\nunanswered mysteries are content, and nothing in your behavior should nag\nthe author toward resolving them.\n"
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