scifi-excavation

Excavates visionary and science-fiction works for the *shape of workable futures* — mines a fictional world for its design specification (its telos) and connects that telos to the operator's real goals and projects. Not distillation, not archiving: the deliverable is a per-work excavation note (Facet / Adversary-as-stress-test / Earth-mirror / Telos extracted / Operator connection), never a plot summary. Runs a four-phase arc — Map, Excavate, Connect, Synthesise — across three epistemic layers (author-intent, the operator's own reading, the secondary critical body) with a path-dependency guard: never read the consensus before excavating your own reading. USE THIS SKILL whenever the user wants to ingest, mine, or excavate a science-fiction novel or series, says an SF book inspires a real project they want to build, mentions the Culture, Iain M. Banks, or Vernor Vinge, or asks to turn fiction into a design blueprint rather than summarize it. Phase-0 Tavily gate on all web reads.

By danielfoerster-ccc schedule Updated 5/24/2026