{
 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "fictional-setting-plausibility-check",
 "type": "prompt",
 "name": "Fictional world logic reviewer",
 "summary": "Check your fictional setting plausibility before you draft. Find weak links between land, food, trade and daily life, with fixes for each.",
 "headline": "Fictional world logic reviewer",
 "subhead": "Share your setting and its rules. Find weak links between land, resources, trade and daily life. Copy the complete prompt, add your setting and rules, then review the questions.",
 "job": {
  "id": "write-and-tell-stories",
  "name": "Write and tell stories"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "high",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-11-03",
 "first_published": "2026-10-26",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  },
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "audit_report",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Audit report",
   "what": "findings with evidence, severity, missing inputs and next actions"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "A fictional setting sheet or map description, genre and intentional fantasy/science rules.",
  "Specific historical/cultural references only when the setting borrows from them."
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A short, prioritized list of plausibility questions with quoted setting details.",
  "Small revision options and their downstream effects.",
  "Explicit fantasy liberties and unresolved factual claims."
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "You have a map, a setting sheet or world notes and want to catch weak links before you write scenes.",
  "A reader or editor said something in your world does not add up, such as where the food or trade comes from.",
  "You want questions and small fixes, with your own words quoted, not a grade."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You want to check new scenes against an older canon document: use the World detail consistency checker.",
  "You want real history or culture fact-checked: ask a historian or read your own sources, since this check needs supplied references.",
  "You want a score or a yes or no on realism: this gives questions and small fixes, not a grade."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your setting sheet or map description",
   "Your genre and the rules that may differ from reality",
   "References and a specific time or place (optional)"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Priority issues",
    "contains": "Up to five weak links, each with a quoted detail, the missing link, a small fix and what it changes."
   },
   {
    "name": "Intentional liberties",
    "contains": "The fantasy or science rules you chose, kept as they are and not marked as errors."
   },
   {
    "name": "Unresolved questions",
    "contains": "Real-world claims left unverified and open questions for you to answer."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Copy the prompt into a new chat.",
  "Replace the input lines with your setting, rules and supplied references.",
  "Review the quoted evidence and suggested changes.",
  "Apply the fixes you accept to your setting sheet, then run the check again on the revised sheet. To check new scenes against an older canon document, use the World detail consistency checker."
 ],
 "checks": [
  "Issues quote actual supplied setting details.",
  "Intentional fantasy rules are preserved rather than labelled impossible.",
  "Material/cultural links are conditional, with uncertainty and alternatives.",
  "No invented source, authenticity score or absent canon fact appears."
 ],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Invented society planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/invented-society-planner",
   "why": "Tell it as a story"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors",
  "repo": "msitarzewski/agency-agents",
  "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/academic/academic-anthropologist.md",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "Anthropologist",
  "commit": "b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "Anthropologist",
   "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors",
   "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/academic/academic-anthropologist.md",
   "used": "Selected task methods, rewritten and narrowed by AI Blocks. Original role profile retained only as provenance/background. On 2026-10-28 AI Blocks reworded the \"What you need\" note so it matches the listed inputs."
  },
  {
   "title": "Geographer",
   "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors",
   "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/academic/academic-geographer.md",
   "used": "Selected task methods, rewritten and narrowed by AI Blocks. Original role profile retained only as provenance/background."
  },
  {
   "title": "Historian",
   "by": "Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors",
   "url": "https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/b37b5bb33b78f2c1d6567d98e25ca818e3259219/academic/academic-historian.md",
   "used": "Selected task methods, rewritten and narrowed by AI Blocks. Original role profile retained only as provenance/background."
  },
  {
   "title": "AI Blocks catalogue guidance",
   "by": "AI Blocks",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com",
   "used": "We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps. We refreshed those generated sections from the catalogue inputs and next-step links."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE",
  "references/agency-academic-anthropologist.md",
  "references/agency-academic-geographer.md",
  "references/agency-academic-historian.md",
  "source.json"
 ],
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  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/prompts/fictional-setting-plausibility-check.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/fictional-setting-plausibility-check/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/fictional-setting-plausibility-check.zip",
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