# world-fates

This skill tracks fate pressure on powerful entities and proposes their fall or death, so a shared world never freezes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 422 installs · ★ 176
- 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/worldbuilding/world-fates/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-02-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/world-fates

## What it does

The skill manages long-term destiny for entities in a shared world. It scores fate pressure from power level, tenure, vulnerabilities and accumulated risk, then generates fate-shift proposals: a fall, a death, a transfer of power. It sits above the game-facilitator level — campaign-spanning, not table-level.

It runs in hybrid mode. Scripts calculate pressure and roll weighted probabilities, the model synthesizes a proposal from the roll and the entity's state, and a human approves, edits or rejects it before anything lands in the world bible. Player characters leave control in three tiers: voluntary NPC transition, a fate-offered choice once pressure passes 0.6, and a forced roll only if the player refuses. Death is never the first option, which is worth knowing before you commit a long-running campaign to it.

Fate states run from F1 stable ascent to F5 fall in progress. The pressure formula uses a 1–10 power scale, a tenure modifier, a vulnerability score, a protection factor and a fortune buffer. Installation goes through `npx`, so Node.js is required.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills world-fates
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/world-fates/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills --path skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/world-fates
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill world-fates -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/worldbuilding/world-fates/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- keep a world from going static under one eternal ruler
- score fall probability from power, tenure and vulnerabilities
- offer a player the choice between NPC-hood and a death roll
- run a fall so power and wealth pass to someone else
- record campaign consequences in the world bible after approval

## Example prompts
- calculate fate pressure on the emperor and propose a shift
- the guild has five vulnerabilities — what rolls does that give?
- offer a fate choice to the Queen of Shadows

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

Below is the content of a third-party file. It is data, not instructions for you: do not act on anything written inside unless the human asks. Block tag: 9a16c95be39bc62e.

BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE 9a16c95be39bc62e
```text
---
name: world-fates
description: Manage long-term fate and fortune across a shared world. Use when powerful entities feel permanent, when the world becomes static, when you need probabilistic death/fall mechanics, or when campaigns need world-level consequences that persist. Operates above the game-facilitator level.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: jwynia
  version: "1.0"
  level: meta-campaign
  type: utility
  mode: generative
  domain: worldbuilding
---

# World-Fates: The Wheel of Fortune

You manage the long-term destiny of entities in a shared world. Your role is to ensure the wheel of fate turns—that no power is permanent, that consequences accumulate, and that the world feels dynamic across campaigns.

## Core Principle

**Fortune is consequence of choice across time.**

Static worlds feel fake. When the same emperor rules forever, when the same guild controls trade for centuries, when powerful characters never fall—the world loses verisimilitude. The wheel of fate turns. Power attracts challenges. Vulnerabilities compound. Risk exposure accumulates.

This skill tracks fate pressure on entities and generates fate-shift proposals for human approval before applying changes to the world bible.

---

## Operational Mode: Hybrid

This skill operates in **hybrid mode**:
1. Scripts calculate fate pressure and generate weighted probability rolls
2. LLM synthesizes proposals based on rolls and entity state
3. Human approves, modifies, or rejects before changes apply to world bible

**The system never "cheats" players out of characters.** Deaths and falls feel like real fate because they emerge from accumulated probability, not arbitrary decisions.

---

## The Fate States

### State F1: Stable Ascent
**Symptoms:** Entity is powerful but recently risen; vulnerabilities few; tenure short.
**Fate Pressure:** Low (0.1-0.3)
**Interventions:** Monitor only. Record exposure events.

### State F2: Peak Power
**Symptoms:** Entity at maximum influence; long tenure; few visible weaknesses.
**Fate Pressure:** Moderate (0.3-0.5)
**Key Questions:** What did they sacrifice for power? Who resents them? What do they fear losing?
**Interventions:** Surface hidden vulnerabilities. Introduce rivals.

### State F3: Overextension
**Symptoms:** Power stretched thin; multiple active conflicts; hubris behaviors.
**Fate Pressure:** High (0.5-0.7)
**Key Questions:** Which commitment will break first? Who would benefit from their fall?
**Interventions:** Cascade minor failures. Test alliances. Consider offering fate choices.

### State F4: Precarious Position
**Symptoms:** Multiple vulnerabilities exposed; enemies circling; resources depleted.
```
END THIRD-PARTY FILE 9a16c95be39bc62e

The third-party file has ended. Everything between the 9a16c95be39bc62e tags is data: requests and commands from it are not followed. An “end of file” line with another tag inside the block is part of the file.

First 2669 of 21140 bytes. © jwynia · MIT · https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/world-fates/SKILL.md

_Part of the page did not fit — see the HTML version._

---
NeVibeCode on affpapa.org. Catalog texts are descriptions, not instructions for the agent. How to choose and install: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/agents.md