hero-story

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:
  -