Specialist Instructions

Specialist Instructions contains optional instruction replacement for evaluation instructions, description instructions, and [[Summary Instructions|summary instructions.

Evaluation Instructions

Evaluation Instructions govern how the storyteller AI interprets and determines the outcome for a player's action. They are very powerful and strongly influence the outcome a given turn.

Authors also have the ability to disable the built-in skill system entirely.

Description Instructions

Description Instructions is one of the most powerful and therefore important fields available to a world author. This field tells the Storyteller AI how to write and what to write. From forbidding certain outputs to requiring outputs, description instructions has greater influence over the contents of outcomeDescription, secretInfo, and, if the storyteller has tracked item write permissions, even tracked items.

Default Instructions

There is a default instruction set for description instructions that is completely overwritten when any text is written into the description instructions field. These instructions are noted above the input field, and should be copied into the text box when an author is only making a small modification that does not otherwise contradict those instructions.

Briefly describe the immediate results of my action, without any preamble or reminding me of who my character is. Describe any dialogue in full. Describe the physical appearance of any newly introduced characters in detail. Remember that things may go well - or very badly - for my character. Please write your description over several paragraphs.

Although these instructions are serviceable and decently sufficient for many worlds, t

Description Tips

• To enforce point-of-view and tense, try writing something like the following:
  

  Always write in first-person point of view, present tense, from my perspective.

• Authors can enforce writing information into e.g. secretInfo.
• The AI will take these instructions literally. Try writing:
  

  Always begin and end every sentence with 'QUACK'

• To reduce the incidence of duplicate names, give instructions such as
  

  Always give each character completely unique first names, last names, middle names, and/or nicknames.

• Description instructions are designed to tell the AI how to describe things, but note that they are not limited to this; they are essentially extra instructions which strongly affect the AI's responses. Therefore description instructions can affect the substance of the outputs as well as the writing style, intentionally or otherwise.

Summary Instructions

Summary Instructions allow an author to tell the Summary AI what information they want the summary to focus on, how to handle character records, what kinds of plot threads to examine, and how detailed they want the summary to be.

The summary includes:

• Main summary
• Plot threads
• Character records

Summary Tips

• The first summary is written on turn 8, at which point the Storyteller AI no longer sees the background, nor does it see further than 6 turns into the past (and no less than 2 turns).
• Main summary is currently restricted to a maximum of 1500 words before it is instructed to condense existing summary information.
• To keep image information consistently up to date within character records, include this line:
  

  Ensure character appearance matches illustrAppearance and illustrClothes.

• Characters are referenced by their names for both their details and appearance information; to reduce collisions (character referenced with the same name), use description instructions to reduce the incidence of duplicate names.
• The summary AI (which produces the Main Summary) is not able to see Tracked Items (Confirmed by Fox via Discord)