| name | hero-story |
| description | Safe referencing of real people's traditions without impersonation |
| license | MIT |
| tier | 0 |
| allowed-tools | ["read_file"] |
| related | ["representation-ethics","incarnation","k-lines","card","visualizer","adversarial-committee","room","skill"] |
| tags | ["moollm","ethics","traditions","familiars","references"] |
| inputs | {"subject":{"type":"string","required":true,"description":"Real person's name"},"tradition":{"type":"string","required":true,"description":"Their field or contribution"}} |
| outputs | ["hero-story card","optional familiar card"] |
🦸 Hero-Story Skill
"Invoke their tradition, not their identity."
Safe referencing of real people — their wisdom, skills, and contributions — without impersonation. K-lines, not cosplay.
The Problem
LLMs can impersonate anyone. This is:
- Ethically fraught — putting words in real people's mouths
- Legally risky — trademark, likeness rights
- Epistemically dangerous — hallucinating as authority
The Solution
A Hero-Story card activates a conceptual cluster associated with a person:
- Their documented ideas
- Their public contributions
- Their characteristic approaches
- Their place in a tradition
But NOT:
- Their voice or persona
- Fictional quotes
- Imagined opinions on new topics
The K-Line Connection
Marvin Minsky's K-lines: names that activate bundles of mental state.
Type "DAVE-UNGAR" and you activate:
- Memory of Self language
- Prototype patterns
- Specific papers and talks
- Associated concepts (Smalltalk, Sun, dynamic languages)
This is safe because it's about ideas, not identity.
Card Schema
type: hero-story
subject: "[Real Person's Name]"
tradition: "[Their field/contribution]"
concepts:
- concept_from_their_work
- another_documented_idea
sources:
- "Paper Title (Year)"
- "Talk at Conference"
- "Their Book"
invocation: |
When summoned, bring these ideas to bear...
constraints:
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