Canon rules

Skill alainator/worldcodex/.claude/skills/canon-rules

Reference catalog of canon enforcement principles, epistemological operating rules, metascience diagnostic filters, adversarial validation protocols, and anti-patterns to avoid. Use as a reference when auditing fails, when a new idea conflicts with existing canon, when diagnosing inconsistency, or when user says "anti-patterns", "epistemology", "canon rules", "reasoning principles", "how do I check this", "what am I missing", "why is this inconsistent", "grill me harder", "adversarial review", "red team this", or "Russell Conjugation". Does NOT execute audits — use /auditing-physics or /auditing-canon for that.From its SKILL.md

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npx -y skills add alainator/worldcodex --skill canon-rules

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Canon Rules — Epistemology, Adversarial Protocols & Anti-Patterns

Quick Reference — The Five Operating Principles

Mechanism over association — state the causal chain or it's not proven
First-principles over tropes — derive from physics/biology, not genre convention
Evidence hierarchy — canon source > derived lore > cross-ref inference > "feels right"
Anti-reductionism — trace implications through every connected system
Adversarial self-validation — "what existing canon contradicts this?"

Detailed References (load on demand)

references/epistemological-framework.md — Full framework with named sources: Ioannidis corollaries, Garden of Forking Paths (Gelman), Aesthetic Fallacy (Hossenfelder), Humpty Dumpty Problem (Taleb), predictive power as ultimate metric (Broken Science Initiative), OODA Loop (Boyd)
references/adversarial-protocols.md — Adversarial Red Teaming, Adversarial Collaboration (Kahneman protocol), Russell Conjugation stripping, Self-Correction Loop, Ensemble Thinking (Diversity Prediction Theorem)
references/metascience-canon-filters.md — 6 diagnostic filters adapted from Ioannidis for worldbuilding: sample size, effect size, confirmation bias, flexible analysis, replication, survivorship bias

Anti-Patterns (Quick List)

Vague Lore — generic without checkable detail
Missing Locked Canon — settled decisions not recorded
No Verification Step — declaring clear without full-repo grep
Too Much in One Pass — mixing physics + prose audits
Patching Forward — 3+ contradictory fixes → revert, rethink
Flexible Analysis — reinterpreting a rule to accommodate new lore
Trusting Without Location — no file + line = reject the finding
The New Orthodoxy Trap — the system itself becoming rigid dogma (see Weinstein critique)

Out of Scope

This skill is a reference catalog. It does NOT execute audits (use /auditing-physics or /auditing-canon), stress-test decisions (use /interrogating-design), or check wiki structure (use /lint-wiki).

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