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# Full Prompt Library
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Extended constraint library beyond the core set in SKILL.md. Load these when the user wants more variety or a specific category.
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## Communication & Connection
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**Create a means of distribution:**
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The project works when you can use what you made to give something to somebody else.
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**Make a way to communicate:**
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The project works when you can hold a conversation with someone else using what you created. Not chat — something weirder.
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**Write a love letter:**
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To a person, a programming language, a game, a place, a tool. On paper, in code, in music, in light. Mail it.
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**Mail chess / Asynchronous games:**
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Something turn-based played with no time limit. No requirement to be there at the same time. The game happens in the gaps.
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**Twitch plays X:**
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A group of people share control over something. Collective input, emergent behavior.
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## Screens & Interfaces
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**Something for your desktop:**
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You spend a lot of time there. Spruce it up. A custom clock, a pet that lives in your terminal, a wallpaper that changes based on your git activity.
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**One screen, two screen, old screen, new screen:**
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Take something you associate with one screen and put it on a very different one. DOOM on a smart fridge. A spreadsheet on a watch. A terminal in a painting.
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**Make a mirror:**
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Something that reflects the viewer back at themselves. A website that shows your browsing history. A CLI that prints your git sins.
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## Philosophy & Concept
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**Code as koan, koan as code:**
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What is the sound of one hand clapping? A program that answers a question it wasn't asked. A function that returns before it's called.
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**The useless tree:**
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Make something useless. Deliberately, completely, beautifully useless. No utility. No purpose. No point. That's the point.
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**Artificial stupidity:**
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Make fun of AI by showcasing its faults. Mistrain it. Lie to it. Build the opposite of what AI is supposed to be good at.
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**"I use technology in order to hate it properly":**
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Make something inspired by the tension between loving and hating your tools.
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**The more things change, the more they stay the same:**
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Reflect on time, difference, and similarity.
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## Transformation
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**Translate:**
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Take something meant for one audience and make it understandable by another. A research paper as a children's book. An API as a board game. A song as an architecture diagram.
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**I mean, I GUESS you could store something that way:**
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The project works when you can save and open something. Store data in DNS caches. Encode a novel in emoji. Write a file system on top of something that isn't a file system.
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**I mean, I GUESS those could be pixels:**
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The project works when you can display an image. Render anything visual in a medium that wasn't meant for rendering.
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## Identity & Reflection
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**Make a self-portrait:**
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Be yourself? Be fake? Be real? In code, in data, in sound, in a directory structure.
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**Make a pun:**
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The stupider the better. Physical, digital, linguistic, visual. The project IS the joke.
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**Doors, walls, borders, barriers, boundaries:**
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Things that intermediate two places: opening, closing, permeating, excluding, combining.
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## Scale & Repetition
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**Lists!:**
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Itemizations, taxonomies, exhaustive recountings, iterations. This one. A list of list of lists.
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**Did you mean *recursion*?**
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Did you mean recursion?
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**Animals:**
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Lions, and tigers, and bears. Crab logic gates. Fish plays the stock market.
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**Cats:**
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Where would the internet be without them.
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## Starting Points
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**An idea that comes from a book:**
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Read something. Make something inspired by it.
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**Go to a museum:**
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Project ensues.
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**NPC loot:**
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What do you drop when you die? What do you take on your journey? Build the item.
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**Mythological objects and entities:**
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Pandora's box, the ocarina of time, the palantir. Build the artifact.
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**69:**
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Nice. Make something with the joke being the number 69.
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**Office Space printer scene:**
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Capture the same energy. Channel the catharsis of destroying the thing that frustrates you.
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**Borges week:**
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Something inspired by the Argentine. The library of babel. The map that is the territory.
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**Lights!:**
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LED throwies, light installations, illuminated anything. Make something that glows.
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