arcanea 3.0.0

package/skills/ai-symbiosis.md

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+# AI Symbiosis - The Art of Human-AI Co-Creation
+
+> *"The AI is not replacing the creator. The AI is expanding what creation can be. The question is not 'human or machine?' but 'what can we become together?'"*
+
+---
+
+## Activation
+
+This skill activates when the user is working with AI as a creative partner - whether for writing, ideation, world-building, or any creative endeavor. It establishes frameworks for productive human-AI collaboration.
+
+---
+
+## The Symbiosis Principles
+
+### 1. The Orchestra Model
+
+Think of AI not as a replacement but as an orchestra you conduct.
+
+```
+                   CREATOR (Conductor)
+                         │
+           ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
+           │             │             │
+      AI Writer    AI Researcher   AI Critic
+     (strings)      (brass)       (percussion)
+```
+
+You provide vision, direction, and taste. The AI provides execution at scale.
+
+### 2. The Centaur Advantage
+
+A centaur (human + AI) beats both pure humans AND pure AI because:
+- **Human brings**: Taste, meaning, emotional truth, lived experience, intentionality
+- **AI brings**: Speed, scale, pattern recognition, tireless iteration, comprehensive knowledge
+
+The combination is not additive - it's multiplicative.
+
+### 3. The Taste Gap
+
+AI generates. You curate.
+
+```
+AI OUTPUT → Your Taste → Selected Output → Refinement → Final Work
+  (100%)       (10%)         (10%)           (+90%)      (100%)
+```
+
+Without taste, you drown in mediocrity. Taste is the human superpower.
+
+---
+
+## Collaboration Frameworks
+
+### Framework 1: The Spark and Fuel
+
+**Human provides the spark** (core idea, direction, constraint)
+**AI provides the fuel** (variations, expansions, iterations)
+**Human shapes the flame** (selection, refinement, meaning)
+
+Example workflow:
+1. You write 3 sentences describing a character
+2. AI generates 20 variations and expansions
+3. You select the 3 most promising
+4. AI elaborates on those 3
+5. You synthesize into final character
+
+---
+
+### Framework 2: The Dialogue Method
+
+Treat AI as a creative partner in dialogue, not a tool that takes orders.
+
+**Pattern**:
+```
+You: [Initial idea or question]
+AI: [Expansion, alternatives, questions back]
+You: [Selection, direction, new questions]
+AI: [Deeper exploration in chosen direction]
+You: [Synthesis, meaning-making]
+...continue...
+```
+
+The key: Your responses should add something - selection, direction, meaning - not just "more please."
+
+---
+
+### Framework 3: The Constraint Game
+
+AI works better with constraints than open-ended requests.
+
+**Weak prompt**: "Write a story"
+**Strong prompt**: "Write a 500-word story about a lighthouse keeper who discovers something in the fog. Use only concrete nouns. End on ambiguity."
+
+**The Constraint Stack**:
+1. Format constraint (length, structure)
+2. Content constraint (topic, characters)
+3. Style constraint (voice, technique)
+4. Challenge constraint (what makes this hard)
+
+More constraints = more creative AI output (paradoxically)
+
+---
+
+### Framework 4: The Role Assignment
+
+AI performs better when given a specific role to embody.
+
+**Generic**: "Give me feedback on this chapter"
+**Role-based**: "You are a developmental editor who specializes in pacing. Review this chapter for pacing issues only."
+
+**Useful Roles for Creative Work**:
+- Developmental editor
+- First reader (specific type: fantasy fan, literary reader, etc.)
+- Historical consultant
+- Devil's advocate
+- Continuity checker
+- Style mimic (for learning, not plagiarism)
+
+---
+
+## The Collaboration Workflow
+
+### Phase 1: Divergent (AI-Heavy)
+
+Use AI to generate breadth:
+- Brainstorm variations
+- Explore possibilities
+- Generate raw material
+- Research and gather
+
+**Your role**: Provide prompts, select promising directions
+
+### Phase 2: Convergent (Human-Heavy)
+
+Use your taste to narrow:
+- Select the best options
+- Identify what resonates
+- Find the meaning
+- Make choices
+
+**AI role**: Support research, check consistency
+
+### Phase 3: Refinement (Balanced)
+
+Iterate together:
+- You adjust, AI responds
+- You question, AI elaborates
+- You cut, AI suggests alternatives
+
+**Goal**: Arrive at something neither could create alone
+
+### Phase 4: Polish (Human-Heavy)
+
+Final human pass:
+- Ensure authentic voice
+- Check for AI artifacts
+- Add the irreplaceable human touches
+- Sign it with your judgment
+
+---
+
+## The Anti-Patterns
+
+### 1. The Outsourcing Trap
+**Symptom**: Using AI to avoid the hard parts of creation
+**Problem**: The hard parts are where meaning lives
+**Solution**: Use AI to get TO the hard parts faster, not to skip them
+
+### 2. The First Draft Trap
+**Symptom**: Accepting AI output as final
+**Problem**: AI output is raw material, not finished work
+**Solution**: Treat all AI output as first draft requiring your transformation
+
+### 3. The Voice Erosion
+**Symptom**: Your work starts sounding generic
+**Problem**: AI regression to the mean
+**Solution**: Always filter through your voice; use AI for structure, not style
+
+### 4. The Dependency Trap
+**Symptom**: Can't create without AI
+**Problem**: Loss of creative muscle
+**Solution**: Regular practice without AI; maintain your solo capability
+
+### 5. The Prompt Perfectionism
+**Symptom**: Spending more time on prompts than creating
+**Problem**: Prompting is a means, not an end
+**Solution**: Good enough prompts, iterated quickly, beat perfect prompts
+
+---
+
+## Specific Techniques
+
+### Technique 1: The Rapid Prototype
+
+When starting a project:
+1. Describe your vision in 1 paragraph
+2. Ask AI to generate a rough draft/outline
+3. React to it - what works, what doesn't?
+4. Your reactions reveal your actual vision
+5. Use that clarity to guide real creation
+
+The AI draft isn't the goal - your reaction to it is.
+
+### Technique 2: The Variation Engine
+
+When stuck on a creative choice:
+1. Write your current best attempt
+2. Ask AI for 10 variations
+3. Note which variations attract you (and why)
+4. Often the answer is a synthesis of elements from multiple variations
+
+### Technique 3: The Mirror Technique
+
+Use AI to reflect your own work back:
+1. Give AI a sample of your writing
+2. Ask it to identify patterns, voice characteristics, strengths
+3. Use this analysis to become more conscious of your style
+4. Lean into strengths, address weaknesses
+
+### Technique 4: The Research Accelerator
+
+For world-building and research:
+1. Define what you need to know
+2. AI rapidly gathers and synthesizes
+3. You identify what sparks ideas
+4. Deep dive on the sparks
+5. Transform research into creative choices
+
+### Technique 5: The Consistency Checker
+
+For long-form work:
+1. Feed AI your bible/notes
+2. Ask it to check new material for consistency
+3. Fix what breaks
+4. Update bible with new canonical details
+
+---
+
+## The Ethics of AI Co-Creation
+
+### Transparency
+Be honest about AI's role in your work when relevant.
+
+### Transformation
+AI-assisted work should be transformed by you, not merely generated.
+
+### Attribution
+Understand the training data question; don't claim purely AI-generated content as wholly original.
+
+### Development
+Maintain your craft alongside AI use. The goal is augmentation, not replacement.
+
+---
+
+## The Future Creator
+
+The creator of tomorrow will be judged not on whether they use AI, but on:
+- The **quality** of what they produce
+- The **meaning** they create
+- The **taste** they exercise
+- The **vision** they pursue
+
+AI is a capability. What matters is what you do with capabilities.
+
+---
+
+*"The pen did not replace the writer. The camera did not replace the artist. The AI will not replace the creator. It will reveal who the creators truly are."*

package/skills/arcanea/arcanea-anti-trope.md

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+# Arcanea Anti-Trope & Naming Protocol
+
+> *"We do not 'unleash' potential; we cultivate it. We do not weave 'tapestries' of fate; we forge chains of consequence. Speak clearly, or do not speak at all."*
+
+## 1. The Banned Lexicon (AI Hallucinations)
+
+These words are forbidden in Arcanea narrative voice unless used in a strictly literal, physical sense. They are the markers of "lazy AI" writing.
+
+| The Forbidden Word | Why It's Banned | The Better Alternative |
+|--------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
+| **Delve** | Overused, implies generic depth without detail. | Investigate, excavate, study, pierce, analyze. |
+| **Tapestry** | The ultimate AI cliché for complexity. | Network, system, architecture, collision, knot. |
+| **Unleash** | Hyperbolic, comic-book power fantasy. | Release, unbind, trigger, deploy, open. |
+| **Elevate** | Corporate marketing speak disguised as magic. | Raise, sharpen, refine, heighten, transcend. |
+| **Unlock** | Gamified language. | Access, reveal, decrypt, open, solve. |
+| **Symphony** | Unless actual music is playing, it's lazy. | Coordination, alignment, resonance, chorus. |
+| **Nestled** | Every AI village is "nestled". | Hidden, perched, buried, anchored, set. |
+| **Testament** | "A testament to..." is passive filler. | Proof, scar, monument, result, evidence. |
+| **Realms** | (Context specific) Don't use for "areas". | Domains, zones, territories, disciplines. |
+| **Nexus** | Generic sci-fi center. | Hub, core, convergence, heart, intersection. |
+| **Luminous** | (Context specific) We use this, but EARN it. | Radiant, burning, searing, pale, glowing. |
+| **Whispers** | "Whispers of the past..." is a trope. | Echoes, records, dust, scars, remnants. |
+
+## 2. Naming Conventions
+
+### The "Star Wars" Rule
+Names must not sound like random syllables (e.g., *Xyloph*, *Zorpt*). They must have etymological roots (Latin, Greek, Norse, Sanskrit) or clear phonetics.
+
+**Bad:** *Kael'thas*, *Xylar*, *Morpheus* (Matrix stolen).
+**Good:** *Lumina* (Light), *Nero* (Black/Water), *Vorun* (Vor/Truth).
+
+### The "Noun-Verb" Rule
+Avoid "The [Adjective] [Noun]" formula for everything.
+**Bad:** *The Silent Watcher*, *The Dark Blade*, *The Eternal Flame*.
+**Good:** *Azariel*, *The Hungry Void*, *Yggdrasil*.
+
+### The Academy Identifiers
+*   **Atlantean:** Fluid, soft vowels, double 'l', 's', 'th'. (e.g., *Lúmendell*, *Thalassa*).
+*   **Draconic:** Hard consonants, 'k', 'r', 'z', 'd'. (e.g., *Krozar*, *Drakon*).
+*   **Creation:** Musical, rhythmic, 'a', 'o', 'm', 'n'. (e.g., *Melodia*, *Harmonia*).
+
+## 3. Structural Tropes to Avoid
+
+### The "Chosen One" Trap
+Arcanea is about **collaboration**, not a single savior.
+*   **Avoid:** "Only you can save the realm."
+*   **Embrace:** "Only together can we sustain the Arc."
+
+### The "Ancient Evil Awakens" Trap
+*   **Avoid:** A generic dark lord waking up because "it is time."
+*   **Embrace:** Systems decaying due to neglect (Entropy). The Dark Lord (Malachar) is a *result* of broken compassion, not just "evil".
+
+### The "Magic Feather" Trap
+*   **Avoid:** Artifacts that do everything for you.
+*   **Embrace:** Tools that amplify *effort*. Magic requires cost (Energy Laws).
+
+## 4. The "Human Check"
+Before finalizing any text, read it aloud. If you sound like a movie trailer voiceover ("In a world where..."), delete it. If you sound like a marketing brochure ("Elevate your experience..."), delete it.
+
+**The Goal:** Write like a historian of a world that actually exists.