Canon rules
Claude Code skill suite for worldbuilding with scientific rigor. 19 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents, research tool. Includes derivation-chain civilization pipeline, communication medium taxonomy, and epistemological framework.
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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.
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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)
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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).