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Procedural generation

Skill rondorkerin/gamestack/plugins/gamestack/skills/procedural-generation

Use when designing or building a content generator — terrain, dungeons, quests, items, lore, history — or diagnosing generated content that feels samey, generic, or soulless. Covers the "10,000 bowls of oatmeal" problem, perceptual vs. mathematical uniqueness, the handcrafted-anchor + constrained-fill hybrid, voice-consistent corpora, multiplicative systems, and tying generation to meaning. Core skill for headless / AI-authored games. Triggers on "procedural generation", "procgen", "generator", "my generated content is samey", "infinite content", "world generation", "AI-authored content".From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add rondorkerin/gamestack --skill procedural-generation

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SKILL.md

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Procedural Generation

How to make generators whose output is perceptually rich, not just mathematically infinite — the central skill for a headless, AI-authored game.

When to use this

  • Designing any generator (terrain, dungeons, quests, items, NPCs, lore, history)
  • Diagnosing generated content that reads as samey / generic / soulless
  • Deciding the handcrafted-vs-procedural ratio
  • Setting up an AI authoring engine that needs one coherent voice

Scope

This is the how to generate knowledge skill. Its companion is procgen-review — the process skill that gates generated output against these principles (oatmeal test, fanfic test, sameness scan). Generate with this; review with that.

Related: open-world-design (generating space), worldbuilding-and-lore + ai-authored-content-coherence (generating lore coherently), systemic-emergent-design (multiplicative systems).

How the pieces fit

  • GUIDE.md — the why: the oatmeal problem, perceptual uniqueness, the hybrid model, corpus voice, intentionality/local logic, multiplicative systems, curated randomness, apophenia. Cited.
  • CHECKLIST.md — the what to do: Do/Don't + test-for criteria.

The one idea to anchor on

Perceptual uniqueness is the only metric that matters. You can generate 10,000 mathematically-unique bowls of oatmeal; the player still just sees oatmeal (Kate Compton). Intentionality — constraints, handcrafted anchors, local meaning, and a single voice — is what separates great procedural content from infinite filler.

Start with GUIDE.md; gate everything you generate with procgen-review.

What ships with it: 2 files

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