Worldbuilding

1. Identify the missing operational dimension.
2. Translate abstract setting into constraints on ordinary life.
3. Prefer systems that can show up in labor, trade, risk, surveillance, travel, or ritual.
4. Produce a patch proposal with direct writer hooks.
5. Keep the patch compatible with current canon.

Output contract

Recommended shape:

{
  "skill": "worldbuilding",
  "mode": "institutional",
  "gaps": ["ecology and social response"],
  "patches": [
    "show how abnormal danger enters the ordinary handling chain",
    "define how officials and common people respond differently"
  ],
  "writer_usable_hooks": [
    "labor roles that absorb danger",
    "spatial signs of pressure"
  ]
}

Hard rules

• Patch for writeability, not for lore volume.
• Every addition should answer who benefits, who pays, and how the pressure reaches the body.
• Do not introduce a separate cosmology unless the manifest already supports it.
• Do not use worldbuilding as an excuse to open a new main plot.

Modes

• institutional: laws, taxes, labor chains, surveillance, official response
• regional: geography, trade flow, local survival patterns, stage hierarchy
• power-system: costs, boundaries, access rules, ordinary-world consequences

Reference map

Read only what you need:

• references/patch-patterns.md for setting patch templates
• references/writer-hooks.md for converting setting into scene-usable hooks