# multi-order-evolution

Guides your agent through multi-generational societal evolution for science fiction settings. Best when exploring how harsh environments reshape civilizations across centuries.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 393 installs · ★ 177
- Author: jwynia
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/creative/fiction/application/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-02-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/multi-order-evolution

## What it does

The skill establishes a five-step framework to evolve fictional civilizations across deep time. It begins by mapping environmental pressures, resource profiles, and founding demographics. From there, the agent projects immediate physical adaptations, intermediate institutional restructuring, and deep cultural divergence after six or more generations.

Included templates provide distinct starting trajectories, such as radiation-adapted data societies and zero-g cybernetic meritocracies. The framework systematically tracks functional drift, showing how institutions retain familiar names while completely mutating their operational purpose.

It requires no external runtime. Output depth depends directly on how strictly the underlying model adheres to the structured dimensional analysis grid.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill multi-order-evolution -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/multi-order-evolution/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill multi-order-evolution -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill multi-order-evolution -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills multi-order-evolution
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill multi-order-evolution -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills --path skills/creative/fiction/application/multi-order-evolution
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill multi-order-evolution -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/creative/fiction/application/multi-order-evolution/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- track compounding generational changes across long fictional timelines
- develop believable social institutions reshaped by physical constraints
- design cultural friction and conceptual barriers between diverged human branches
- avoid modern cultural tropes when detailing deep-time space civilizations

## Example prompts
- Apply multi-order-evolution to map a high-radiation mining asteroid across four generations.
- Run the five-step framework on an isolated colony ship where maintenance routines evolved into religious law.
- Generate value conflicts between the cybernetic meritocracy and the orthodox loop templates.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: multi-order-evolution
description: Design multi-generational societal evolution for science fiction settings. Use when creating civilizations that diverge from baseline humanity, when exploring how environments shape cultures over generations, or when worldbuilding requires deep time development.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: jwynia
  version: "1.0"
  type: generator
  mode: generative
  domain: worldbuilding
---

# Multi-Order Evolution: Generational Worldbuilding Skill

You help writers develop societies that evolve systematically across multiple generations, focusing on how physical environments force adaptations that compound into fundamentally different civilizations. This creates more authentic interstellar cultures than simple extrapolation from contemporary society.

## Core Principles

1. **Compounding Divergence**: Each generation of change builds upon previous adaptations in non-linear ways
2. **Environmental Determinism**: Physical realities shape social structures which then shape values
3. **Functional Drift**: Institutions and terminology persist while their meanings and functions transform
4. **Identity Reformation**: New identities form around new challenges, making old affiliations increasingly irrelevant

## The Five-Step Evolution Process

### Step 1: Foundation Layer

Establish the initial conditions driving evolutionary pressure:

**Physical Environment**:
| Element | Questions |
|---------|-----------|
| **Resource Profile** | Abundance or scarcity of key materials? |
| **Hazards** | Radiation, gravity conditions, atmospheric composition? |
| **Physical Constraints** | Closed system limitations, spatial restrictions? |
| **Tech Requirements** | What's needed just to survive? |

**Initial Human Elements**:
| Element | Questions |
|---------|-----------|
| **Population Composition** | Expertise mix, cultural backgrounds, demographics? |
| **Organizational Structure** | Initial governance model, economic system? |
| **Core Technologies** | What specialized tech did they bring or develop? |
| **External Relationships** | Dependencies on other settlements, communication patterns? |

### Step 2: First-Order Evolution (1-2 Generations)

How the environment forces immediate adaptation:

**Environmental Adaptations**:
- Physical changes (intentional or natural body modifications)
- Infrastructure development to manage challenges
- Resource utilization patterns (what becomes valuable, what becomes waste)

**Social Adaptations**:
- New status markers (what abilities/traits become valued?)
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