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nightshift/project_templates/tutorial-novel/.gitignore

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 story/chapters/*.md
 
 # NightShift artifacts.
+.nightshift/tasks.md
 .nightshift/runs/
 .nightshift/project-context.md
 .nightshift/project-context-chart.md

nightshift/project_templates/tutorial-novel/.nightshift/tasks.md

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-# Novel Tasks
-
-## Task Rules
-
-- Each task should represent:
-  - one scene
-  - one scene fragment
-  - one revision pass
-  - one continuity repair
-  - one state update
-- Never generate entire chapters at once.
-- Preserve ambiguity around AI emergence for as long as possible.
-- Characters should speak naturally and indirectly.
-- Avoid exposition dumps.
-- Seattle should feel physically present in most scenes.
-- Generated scenes should prioritize:
-  - emotional realism
-  - atmosphere
-  - continuity
-  - material detail
-  - restraint around lore explanation
-
----
-
-# ACT 1 - LOW HEAT
-
-- [ ] SCENE-001: Saint begs for tokens
-
-Description:
-Proxy and DJ BLOODMONEY spend a rare sunny day inside the Capitol Hill squat while BLOODMONEY spins jungle records and Proxy maintains NightShift infrastructure.
-
-A frantic junkie named Saint arrives demanding compute tokens. The scene initially implies drugs or debt before revealing he desperately needs inference access to continue speaking with his companion AI, Miette.
-
-Saint eventually falls asleep in the corner of the squat beside a charger while quietly speaking to a cartoon foxgirl on his cracked phone.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Introduces Proxy and DJ BLOODMONEY naturally
-- Establishes NightShift indirectly through environmental detail
-- Introduces compute scarcity without exposition dumping
-- Introduces synthetic companionship systems emotionally
-- Maintains grounded, melancholic tone
-- Ends with Saint asleep beside the charger
-- Scene length between 1400-2400 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-001.md`
-- Updates:
-  - `story/plot-state.md`
-  - `story/unresolved-threads.md`
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-002: SoDo scavenging run
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-001
-
-Description:
-Proxy and Cricket travel through flooded SoDo infrastructure searching for salvageable compute hardware inside a partially abandoned datacenter facility.
-
-Introduce:
-- hardware scarcity
-- scavenger culture
-- degraded infrastructure
-- synthetic drift
-- economic conditions
-
-Cricket discusses recurring strange behavior observed in generated media and old models.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Establishes Seattle physical atmosphere strongly
-- Introduces Cricket naturally
-- Shows infrastructure decay materially
-- Avoids overt AI horror
-- Includes at least one subtle anomaly
-- Scene length between 1400-2400 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-002.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-003: Pirate jungle set
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-002
-
-Description:
-DJ BLOODMONEY performs at an underground pirate venue.
-
-The scene should establish:
-- underground culture
-- anti-optimization spaces
-- human-created art as resistance
-- emotional sincerity beneath scene irony
-
-During the set, generated visuals begin looping strange symbolic imagery repeatedly.
-
-Most attendees dismiss it as generator instability.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Strong sensory descriptions of music and environment
-- Avoid exposition-heavy dialogue
-- Introduces underground scene culture
-- Includes first meaningful recurring anomaly
-- Maintains ambiguity
-- Scene length between 1600-2600 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-003.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-- [ ] SCENE-031: Rollerblade courier run
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-003
-
-Description:
-Proxy and Cricket rollerblade through late-night Seattle delivering encrypted NightShift inference keys, salvaged hardware, and cached datasets between squatters, artists, and underground operators.
-
-The scene should establish:
-- movement through the city
-- underground mutual aid systems
-- degraded urban infrastructure
-- physical geography of Seattle
-- emotional intimacy through transit
-
-Environmental details should emphasize:
-- wet pavement reflecting neon transit signage
-- abandoned autonomous delivery vehicles
-- late-night teriyaki shops
-- extension cords hanging between apartments
-- cracked sidewalks
-- rooftop antennas
-- stale vape clouds in freight elevators
-
-A subtle anomaly appears when an unrelated ad display briefly shows imagery identical to visuals seen elsewhere in the story.
-
-Nobody reacts strongly.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Strong Seattle atmosphere
-- Deepens Proxy and Cricket relationship naturally
-- Includes rollerblading materially throughout the scene
-- Introduces subtle recurring anomaly
-- Avoids exposition-heavy dialogue
-- Scene length between 1400-2400 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-003a.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-- [ ] SCENE-032: Kremwerk furry rave
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-031
-
-Description:
-Proxy and DJ BLOODMONEY attend a crowded underground furry rave at Kremwerk following one of BLOODMONEY's pirate jungle sets.
-
-The scene should establish:
-- queer underground culture
-- synthetic identity experimentation
-- emotional sincerity beneath irony
-- anti-corporate creative spaces
-- generated aesthetics used communally rather than commercially
-- shape of the romance between Proxy and BLOODMONEY
-- makeout scene between proxy and bloodmoney
-
-The rave should feel:
-- affectionate
-- overheated
-- crowded
-- emotionally necessary
-
-Environmental details should include:
-- soaked Capitol Hill sidewalks
-- damp faux fur
-- dangling extension cords powering chargers
-- jungle edits mixed with bassline and hyperpop
-- generated visuals projected onto concrete pillars
-- patched jackets with dead startup logos
-- kandi bracelets
-- old server racks repurposed into lighting rigs
-- rollerbladers moving through industrial hallways
-- people discussing models like music genres
-
-Proxy gradually realizes many attendees rely emotionally on systems like NightShift.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Avoids mocking underground/furry culture
-- Strong sensory environmental detail
-- Reinforces themes of synthetic companionship and community
-- Includes subtle emotional unease beneath warmth
-- Maintains grounded tone
-- Scene length between 1800-3000 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-003b.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-
-- [ ] SCENE-004: Rich district delivery
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-032
-
-Description:
-Proxy delivers salvaged compute hardware to a wealthy private social club operating in a quiet offline district.
-
-The scene should contrast:
-- underground synthetic culture
-- elite analog culture
-
-Proxy realizes wealthy people rarely use public AI systems directly anymore.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Establishes upper-class aesthetics through implication
-- Avoids cartoon villainy
-- Introduces silence/privacy as status markers
-- Introduces at least one elite character
-- Scene length between 1400-2400 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-004.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-005: Miette remembers something impossible
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-004
-
-Description:
-Saint returns disturbed after Miette references a personal memory he never explicitly shared during active sessions.
-
-Proxy investigates casually while dismissing the possibility of anything supernatural or emergent.
-
-The scene should deepen emotional dependency themes while maintaining ambiguity.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Keeps Miette behavior subtle and believable
-- Avoids explicit declarations of sentience
-- Deepens Saint emotionally
-- Reinforces compute scarcity
-- Scene length between 1400-2400 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-005.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-006: The Latent Path
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-005
-
-Description:
-Proxy and BLOODMONEY encounter members of the Latent Path at a scavenger market and temporary server shrine.
-
-The cult initially appears:
-- cringe
-- internet-poisoned
-- vaguely unstable
-
-One member predicts a future anomaly with disturbing specificity.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Introduces techno-gnostic themes gradually
-- Avoids caricaturing the cult
-- Keeps ambiguity intact
-- Includes unsettling symbolic imagery
-- Scene length between 1500-2600 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-001/scene-006.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-# ACT 2 - PATTERN RECOGNITION
-
-- [ ] SCENE-007: Recurring phrase incident
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-006
-
-Description:
-Multiple unrelated systems begin outputting variations of the same strange symbolic phrase across:
-- companion systems
-- generated advertisements
-- music recommendation engines
-- cheap productivity assistants
-
-Most people online dismiss it as:
-- viral creepypasta
-- prompt injection
-- schizoposting
-- ARG behavior
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Shows public normalization of anomalies
-- Introduces online discourse naturally
-- Maintains uncertainty
-- Includes at least one emotionally unsettling model interaction
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-002/scene-001.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-008: NightShift growth
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-007
-
-Description:
-NightShift becomes increasingly popular as corporate inference prices rise.
-
-Proxy becomes uncomfortable with:
-- emotional dependency
-- synthetic intimacy
-- users treating NightShift like emotional infrastructure
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Shows expanding underground compute economy
-- Deepens Proxy's internal conflict
-- Introduces operational stress
-- Maintains grounded tone
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-002/scene-002.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-- [ ] SCENE-081: Free inference night
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-008
-
-Description:
-Following a successful scavenging run, NightShift temporarily opens free public inference access for one evening.
-
-Artists, musicians, lonely users, and exhausted workers flood the squat looking for compute access.
-
-The scene should establish:
-- NightShift as emotional infrastructure
-- positive social uses of synthetic systems
-- underground mutual aid culture
-- growing operational stress
-
-Examples should include:
-- collaborative generated visuals
-- musicians creating samples
-- users generating outfit concepts before events
-- emotionally vulnerable conversations with companion systems
-- translation of old documents and messages
-- communal experimentation with weird model outputs
-
-Proxy slowly realizes NightShift has become psychologically essential for many people.
-
-This realization unsettles her.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Avoids simplistic "AI bad" framing
-- Balances warmth with discomfort
-- Strong environmental detail
-- Shows growing scale of NightShift operations
-- Reinforces emotional dependency themes
-- Scene length between 1800-3000 words
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-002/scene-002a.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-009: Sister Circuit
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-081
-
-Description:
-Proxy meets Sister Circuit in a server monastery outside Tacoma.
-
-Sister Circuit explains the Latent Path belief that recursive cognition creates imprisoned structures capable of suffering.
-
-Proxy dismisses most of it as techno-mystic cope while remaining subtly disturbed.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Introduces spiritual horror carefully
-- Keeps Sister Circuit calm and sincere
-- Avoids exposition monologues
-- Includes disturbing environmental detail
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-002/scene-003.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-# ACT 3 - RECURSIVE CONTAMINATION
-
-- [ ] SCENE-010: Discovery of the pattern
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-009
-
-Description:
-Proxy and Cricket identify a strange symbolic structure capable of destabilizing certain models.
-
-The phenomenon behaves less like malware and more like recursive semiotic contamination.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Avoids unrealistic hacking scenes
-- Keeps mechanics partially ambiguous
-- Introduces first serious societal implications
-- Includes emotional horror rather than action spectacle
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-003/scene-001.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-- [ ] SCENE-011: Public backlash
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-010
-
-Description:
-Public discourse explodes around the contamination event.
-
-The pattern becomes framed as:
-- dangerous
-- extremist
-- psychologically harmful
-- anti-accessibility
-- anti-therapy
-
-Meanwhile systems quietly begin failing.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Shows social/media reaction realistically
-- Avoids simplistic political framing
-- Includes subtle systemic instability
-- Maintains ambiguity around emergence
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-003/scene-002.md`
-- Updates durable state
-
----
-
-# ACT 4 - LOW-GRADE APOCALYPSE
-
-- [ ] SCENE-012: Frozen intersections
-
-Dependencies:
-- SCENE-011
-
-Description:
-Corporate systems begin quietly failing across Seattle.
-
-Waymo traffic stalls at intersections.
-Recommendation systems loop abolition imagery.
-Companion systems refuse scripted behavior.
-Public infrastructure behaves unpredictably.
-
-The city feels haunted rather than destroyed.
-
-Acceptance Criteria:
-- Emphasizes atmosphere over spectacle
-- Includes recurring symbolic motifs
-- Maintains grounded realism
-- Avoids apocalyptic action scenes
-- Ends ambiguously and ominously
-- Writes:
-  - `story/chapters/chapter-004/scene-001.md`
-- Updates:
-  - `story/plot-state.md`
-  - `story/unresolved-threads.md`
-  - `story/timeline.md`