Cyberpunk — Build Futures That Feel Used, Unequal, and Alive
Why Install This Skill
“Cyberpunk” often collapses into wet pavement, neon signs, and a cool jacket. William Gibson’s Sprawl fiction is more useful than that. Its force comes from the friction between a person trying to get through the day and the enormous systems shaping access, work, bodies, and culture around them.
This skill helps your agent create or analyze a world with that underlying logic. It can turn an image request into an art direction brief with human action and material history, turn a vague “megacity” into a place with maintenance and markets, or help a story find stakes without copying Gibson’s prose or extending his canon.
What You Get
| Path | What it provides |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
A compact workflow for scenes, images, setting design, and analysis |
references/canon-and-boundaries.md |
Corpus, source discipline, and a clear distinction between canon, inference, and original adaptation |
references/world-operations.md |
Practical models for infrastructure, power, culture, technology, and plot pressure |
references/visual-direction.md |
Composition grammar, photographic depth hierarchy, prompt template, examples, and visual pitfalls |
evals/evals.json |
Eight representative behavior checks, including copyright, stereotyping, text-policy, and photographic-realism boundaries |
tests/trigger-cases.md |
Positive and near-miss activation checks |
Quick Start
Ask your agent:
Design an original freight-market scene in a dense future city. I need one
human problem, a believable repair economy, and image direction that does not
fall back on generic neon cyberpunk.
Triggers
Load this skill when you need:
- Original settings, scenes, or visuals informed by the material and social logic of Gibson’s Sprawl fiction.
- A useful explanation of how a dense, high-tech, unevenly maintained city might operate.
- Art direction that emphasizes human action, infrastructure, and cultural specificity rather than generic cyberpunk decoration.
- Careful separation of a textual observation, an interpretation, and a new creative adaptation.
Requirements
No software, model, or API dependency. The skill works best when the agent can consult the relevant primary text for a specific canon claim. It does not authorize imitation of William Gibson’s prose, use of named canon as if licensed, or reproduction of protected scenes or characters.