# Full Prompt Library

Extended constraint library beyond the core set in SKILL.md. Load these when the user wants more variety or a specific category.

## Communication & Connection

**Create a means of distribution:**
The project works when you can use what you made to give something to somebody else.

**Make a way to communicate:**
The project works when you can hold a conversation with someone else using what you created. Not chat — something weirder.

**Write a love letter:**
To a person, a programming language, a game, a place, a tool. On paper, in code, in music, in light. Mail it.

**Mail chess / Asynchronous games:**
Something turn-based played with no time limit. No requirement to be there at the same time. The game happens in the gaps.

**Twitch plays X:**
A group of people share control over something. Collective input, emergent behavior.

## Screens & Interfaces

**Something for your desktop:**
You spend a lot of time there. Spruce it up. A custom clock, a pet that lives in your terminal, a wallpaper that changes based on your git activity.

**One screen, two screen, old screen, new screen:**
Take something you associate with one screen and put it on a very different one. DOOM on a smart fridge. A spreadsheet on a watch. A terminal in a painting.

**Make a mirror:**
Something that reflects the viewer back at themselves. A website that shows your browsing history. A CLI that prints your git sins.

## Philosophy & Concept

**Code as koan, koan as code:**
What is the sound of one hand clapping? A program that answers a question it wasn't asked. A function that returns before it's called.

**The useless tree:**
Make something useless. Deliberately, completely, beautifully useless. No utility. No purpose. No point. That's the point.

**Artificial stupidity:**
Make fun of AI by showcasing its faults. Mistrain it. Lie to it. Build the opposite of what AI is supposed to be good at.

**"I use technology in order to hate it properly":**
Make something inspired by the tension between loving and hating your tools.

**The more things change, the more they stay the same:**
Reflect on time, difference, and similarity.

## Transformation

**Translate:**
Take something meant for one audience and make it understandable by another. A research paper as a children's book. An API as a board game. A song as an architecture diagram.

**I mean, I GUESS you could store something that way:**
The project works when you can save and open something. Store data in DNS caches. Encode a novel in emoji. Write a file system on top of something that isn't a file system.

**I mean, I GUESS those could be pixels:**
The project works when you can display an image. Render anything visual in a medium that wasn't meant for rendering.

## Identity & Reflection

**Make a self-portrait:**
Be yourself? Be fake? Be real? In code, in data, in sound, in a directory structure.

**Make a pun:**
The stupider the better. Physical, digital, linguistic, visual. The project IS the joke.

**Doors, walls, borders, barriers, boundaries:**
Things that intermediate two places: opening, closing, permeating, excluding, combining.

## Scale & Repetition

**Lists!:**
Itemizations, taxonomies, exhaustive recountings, iterations. This one. A list of list of lists.

**Did you mean *recursion*?**
Did you mean recursion?

**Animals:**
Lions, and tigers, and bears. Crab logic gates. Fish plays the stock market.

**Cats:**
Where would the internet be without them.

## Starting Points

**An idea that comes from a book:**
Read something. Make something inspired by it.

**Go to a museum:**
Project ensues.

**NPC loot:**
What do you drop when you die? What do you take on your journey? Build the item.

**Mythological objects and entities:**
Pandora's box, the ocarina of time, the palantir. Build the artifact.

**69:**
Nice. Make something with the joke being the number 69.

**Office Space printer scene:**
Capture the same energy. Channel the catharsis of destroying the thing that frustrates you.

**Borges week:**
Something inspired by the Argentine. The library of babel. The map that is the territory.

**Lights!:**
LED throwies, light installations, illuminated anything. Make something that glows.
