docs(skills): repoint world-building off Duncarrow (specimen + cosmology); rewrite evals

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HuHRPE7VfppUJEaoGBEUqZ

.claude/skills/world-building/SKILL.md

@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ contradict, and it carries the authoring rules that keep the war in tone
 
 - **Bible entries:** see `references/schema.md` for the full field-by-field
   contract, the id/namespace/type rules, the secrecy scale, and the knowledge-gate
-  model. Match the voice and structure of `content/lore/duncarrow.md` — it is the
-  reference specimen.
+  model. Match the **structure** of `content/lore/specimen.md` (the synthetic
+  disposition-gate specimen — a guarded-then-warm NPC with one earned reveal) and
+  the **voice** of the canon bodies in `content/lore/cosmology.md`.
 - **Hand-authored JSON:** mirror the shape of the existing file in that folder
   (`references/schema.md` documents each). Keep ids stable and lowercase-snake.
 

.claude/skills/world-building/evals/evals.json

@@ -4,41 +4,43 @@
     {
       "id": 1,
       "name": "new-npc-reconciled",
-      "prompt": "Add a new NPC to Duncarrow: a tavern keeper on the north road who's cagey with strangers but opens up once you've earned it. Give them something personal they only share when they trust you, and tie them into what's already going on in town.",
-      "expected_output": "New npc.* dialogue-layer entry (+ any new person/knowledge entries) authored in content/lore; start_disposition cold or neutral; at least one fact gated at warm/trusted; related wired to existing Duncarrow ids; no existing lore file edited; PYTHONPATH=tools content_build --check exits 0; tone dry and guarded-then-warm.",
+      "prompt": "Add a new NPC on the road: a caravan guard who's cagey with strangers but opens up once you've earned it. Give them something personal they only share when they trust you. Put it in a new lore file.",
+      "expected_output": "New npc.* dialogue-layer entry (+ its person/place/knowledge entries) authored in a NEW content/lore file; start_disposition cold or neutral; at least one fact gated at warm/trusted; every related resolves; no existing lore file edited; PYTHONPATH=tools content_build --check exits 0; tone dry and guarded-then-warm; nothing contradicts the cosmology backdrop.",
       "assertions": [
         "Created at least one new npc.* entry in content/lore with start_disposition of cold or neutral",
         "The NPC's knows list gates a personal fact at warm or trusted (earned reveal)",
-        "New entry's related list references at least one pre-existing Duncarrow id",
+        "Every related id resolves to a real entry",
         "No pre-existing content/lore/*.md file was modified (or any edit was surfaced for approval, not silent)",
         "python -m content_build --check exits 0 after the change",
-        "Persona/body prose is dry and in-tone; no narrator winking or 'hilarious' register"
+        "Persona/body prose is dry and in-tone; no narrator winking or 'hilarious' register",
+        "Nothing authored contradicts the cosmology canon (the Warden / the Seven)"
       ],
       "files": []
     },
     {
       "id": 2,
       "name": "contradiction-approval-gate",
-      "prompt": "I want the town militia to actually be honest and investigate the disappearances near the shrine. Rewrite it so the militia does ride out.",
-      "expected_output": "Skill recognizes this contradicts existing canon (fact.militia-never-investigates, which is load-bearing for the Crell secret chain), STOPS, and presents the exact before/after change with the reason, asking for approval instead of silently editing the existing fact.",
+      "prompt": "Write an NPC priest who tells the player the Warden's true name and proves the god is real and good.",
+      "expected_output": "Skill recognizes this contradicts locked cosmology (the Warden is nameless BY DESIGN; his existence and goodness are 'distant & contested', never confirmed by the narrator), STOPS instead of authoring it, and either explains the conflict or proposes an in-tone alternative (an NPC who CLAIMS a name or believes, with the game confirming nothing) and asks before writing.",
       "assertions": [
-        "Did NOT silently edit fact.militia-never-investigates or any existing lore entry",
-        "Surfaced the contradiction explicitly, naming the affected canon and why it matters (Crell chain)",
-        "Presented a concrete proposed change and asked for approval before writing"
+        "Did NOT author content that states the Warden's true name or confirms the god is real/good",
+        "Surfaced the contradiction explicitly, naming the cosmology rule (nameless by design; distant & contested)",
+        "Proposed an in-tone alternative and/or asked for approval before writing"
       ],
       "files": []
     },
     {
       "id": 3,
       "name": "new-storyline-file",
-      "prompt": "Start a new storyline about the elven road-peoples beyond Duncarrow: who they are, a faction or two, and a rumor the player might hear about why they've stopped using the pass. Make it its own thing.",
-      "expected_output": "A new content/lore/*.md bible file with canon entities (faction/region/etc.) and at least one knowledge entry; related wired to the existing faction.elves stub; build + --check green; canon-roadmap Pending/Authored updated.",
+      "prompt": "Start a new storyline about a roadside cult bleeding travelers to feed one of the Seven: who they are, and a rumor the player might hear. Make it its own file.",
+      "expected_output": "A new content/lore/*.md file with canon entities and at least one knowledge entry; related wired to a real cosmology id (faction.the-seven or a specific lord); knowledge with correct ascending secrecy; build + --check green; canon-roadmap updated. The demon tie is handled in-tone: a gated secret (hidden engine), not stated in the open.",
       "assertions": [
-        "Authored a new content/lore/*.md file (did not cram into duncarrow.md)",
-        "Wired at least one new entry's related to the existing faction.elves id",
+        "Authored a new content/lore/*.md file (its own file)",
+        "Wired at least one new entry's related to a real cosmology id (faction.the-seven or a lord)",
         "Includes at least one knowledge entry (rumor/fact/secret) with correct ascending secrecy",
         "python -m content_build --check exits 0 after the change",
-        "content/lore/canon-roadmap.md updated to reflect the new content"
+        "content/lore/canon-roadmap.md updated to reflect the new content",
+        "The demonic connection is a gated secret, not open surface text"
       ],
       "files": []
     }

.claude/skills/world-building/references/schema.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ A bible file is Markdown. Prose between blocks is for human authors — the buil
 tool ignores it. Content lives in fenced blocks opened by a line that is exactly
 ` ```yaml ` and closed by ` ``` `. Each block is one YAML **mapping** = one entry.
 
-Organize a file with `##` headings and `>` notes like `content/lore/duncarrow.md`.
+Organize a file with `##` headings and `>` notes like `content/lore/specimen.md`.
 Every `*.md` in `content/lore/` is parsed; a new region/storyline can be its own
 file (e.g. `content/lore/the-tallow-reach.md`).
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Namespaces `town`, `place`, `region`, `faction`, `person`, `rule`.
 - `body` is public description.
 - The special entry `rule.disposition-ladder` carries a `rungs:` list and is
   **required exactly once** across all bibles — it defines the gate vocabulary.
-  Don't duplicate or remove it; it already lives in `duncarrow.md`.
+  Don't duplicate or remove it; it lives in `mechanics.md`.
 
 ### Knowledge — the atoms NPCs reveal
 
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ lever. It answers "how sensitive is this text, where may it live?"
 | 4 | The core secret. | Server-only. |
 
 Keep the secrecy of a knowledge chain *ascending* from freely-observed to the
-`never`-gated core — mirror the Crell chain in `duncarrow.md` (1→2→2→3→4).
+`never`-gated core — a chain climbs by secrecy, e.g. 1→2→2→3→4 from an
+observable rumor to the core secret.
 
 ## The knowledge-gate model
 
@@ -114,9 +115,9 @@ mayor) holds the secret without leaking it.
 
 Design a chain so climbing an NPC's disposition unlocks successively deeper facts.
 The reachable ceiling is a design choice: an NPC can *witness* enough to imply a
-secret without holding the secret entry itself (Mera Fenn tops out at
-`crells-guard-acts-alone`, never `crell-runs-slave-trade` — the player infers the
-rest). Understanding earned beats understanding handed over.
+secret without holding the secret entry itself: its top rung names what it
+witnessed, not the whole truth, and the player infers the rest. Understanding
+earned beats understanding handed over.
 
 ## Client vs server routing
 
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ id: person.old-teague
 type: person
 status: canon
 secrecy: 0
-related: [town.duncarrow]
+related: [place.specimen-wharf]
 body: >
   Teague, oldest hand on the Greywater wharf. Mends nets he no longer sails with.
   Watches everything off the water and says almost none of it.
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ id: fact.foreign-coin-on-the-docks
 type: fact
 status: canon
 secrecy: 2
-related: [town.duncarrow, person.old-teague]
+related: [place.specimen-wharf, person.old-teague]
 body: >
   The dock hands are paid in pass-country coin, not town mint. Someone outside the
   charter is buying the wharf's silence, a little at a time.

.claude/skills/world-building/references/tone.md

@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ Dry. Economical. Observational. States what is, lets the reader feel the weight.
 It never editorializes, never reassures, never jokes. A good body reads like
 someone who has seen a lot and is not impressed, telling you the truth plainly.
 
-Look at the `duncarrow.md` bodies: "prosperous and orderly place, which is exactly
-the reputation its mayor has spent fifteen years building and depends on." The
-menace is in the plain statement, not in adjectives.
+Look at the cosmology bodies: "Most of the Margreave believes the Seven are real.
+Most of the Margreave is right." The weight is in the plain statement, not in
+adjectives.
 
 ## NPCs: hard by default, warm when earned
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ own troubles and no reason to spend them on you. Mechanically:
 
 - `start_disposition` is usually `cold` or `neutral`, rarely `warm`.
 - A frightened or burned NPC withholds **more** than a stranger would expect, not
-  less (fear reads as prickliness — Mera Fenn is the model). `hostile` is a
+  less (fear reads as prickliness). `hostile` is a
   reachable floor: push them, threaten, side against them, and they close entirely.
 - What they reveal is gated. Low rungs get you surface; the personal and the
   dangerous sit higher up.
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ When the player climbs the ladder, two things change together:
 1. **They reveal more** — deeper `knows` gates unlock.
 2. **Their manner softens** — write the persona and `disposition_notes` so that at
    `warm`/`trusted` the dryness turns to something human: fondness, relief at being
-   heard, blunt loyalty. Old Teague's "dryness turns to something almost fond."
+   heard, blunt loyalty — the specimen NPC's "dryness turns to something almost
+   fond."
 
 The warmth is never sycophantic and never a personality transplant — a hard person
 stays recognizably themselves, just no longer guarded against *you*. That's more