What problem does it solve? Turning an interesting technical idea into a compelling science-fiction premise is hard: it is easy to drift into generic dystopia, unexplained magic-tech, or shallow worldbuilding. This Skill provides a disciplined workflow that extrapolates one real mechanism into a premise whose human consequences feel stranger than its technology. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Mechanism Extraction: Identifies the most generative constraint, failure mode, or second-order effect in a source topic rather than fixating on product names. - Anchored Speculation: Keeps one firm anchor in current science, makes exactly one clearly stated speculative leap, and distinguishes established fact from extrapolation and invention. - Three-Layer Consequence Tracing: Follows the mechanism through how it works, how people experience it, and what social norms, institutions, or conflicts emerge. - Use Case: After a conversation about database replication lag, ask for a hard sci-fi seed and receive a premise about a society where legal truth depends on which replica you query, with a viewpoint character facing a costly decision. ## Quick Start Use the seed-hard-scifi skill to turn the topic we just discussed into a hard sci-fi story seed with an anchor, a leap, and story pressure.
