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permadeath-and-lethality

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By rondorkerin/gamestack (GitHub) · design · 34 stars · scanned at commit 0419358

Use when designing high-lethality / permadeath / single-save combat and the systems around it — making death fair and readable, mitigating the cost of failure without removing stakes (short runs, opt-in difficulty, deterministic anti-save-scum), meta-progression and diegetically-integrated death (roguelike vs. roguelite), and the hard open problem of single-save permadeath in a long-form open world. Also use to diagnose deaths that feel unfair, a game churning players at the first big loss, or …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'permadeath-and-lethality' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'permadeath-and-lethality' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named permadeath-and-lethality already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/rondorkerin/gamestack' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '0419358df31455e63820bdd89f3c5b446665f604' -- 'plugins/gamestack/skills/permadeath-and-lethality' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/gamestack/skills/permadeath-and-lethality' ~/.agents/skills/'permadeath-and-lethality' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'permadeath-and-lethality' ~/.claude/skills/'permadeath-and-lethality' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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