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46 lines
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description: Extract world-building and research elements from a manuscript
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argument-hint: "[path, glob, or selection]"
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allowed-tools: [Read, Glob, Grep]
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---
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Read the material at `$ARGUMENTS` and extract the world-building scaffolding — the rules, systems, places, peoples, technologies, history, and other invented or researched elements the story relies on. Report directly to the conversation as a reference document.
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## What to extract
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Inventory each of the following that appears in the text. Skip categories that don't apply.
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### Systems and rules
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- **Physical / magical** — laws, limits, costs, exceptions
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- **Technological** — devices, infrastructure, capabilities and constraints
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- **Biological / species** — characteristics, abilities, lifecycles
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- **Cultural** — customs, taboos, ceremonies, norms
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### Social and political
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- **Governance** — structures, hierarchies, factions, leaders
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- **Economic** — currencies, trade, scarcity, class
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- **Legal** — laws, enforcement, punishments
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- **Communication** — protocols, etiquette, who speaks to whom
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### Geography and setting
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- **Locations** — planets, regions, cities, landmarks, interiors of note
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- **Timeline / history** — past events the story references
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- **Distances and travel** — how long things take, how movement works
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### Themes and ideas
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- **Concepts the story is wrestling with** — identity, freedom, memory, etc.
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- **Real-world research areas** that ground the fiction — flag where the writer leaned on specialist knowledge (medicine, military, law, science, history, language)
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## Output format
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For each element:
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- **Name / label** — the thing as it appears in the text
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- **What we know** — extracted facts, with brief chapter/scene refs
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- **Consistency notes** — contradictions or vague spots worth firming up
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- **Open questions** — gaps where the writer hasn't yet decided something the text implies
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Close with:
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- **Research gaps** — areas where the writer should do more homework before the next draft
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- **World-building gaps** — invented systems that need more definition to stay coherent
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