name: mount description: "Skill mounting — modify character and room behavior through overlay" license: MIT tier: 1 allowed-tools:

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"MOOLLM skill system"

MOUNT

"Skill mounting — modify character and room behavior through overlay"

Mount skills on characters and rooms to modify behavior until unmounted.

See CARD.yml (1400+ lines) for comprehensive compatibility tables, mount types, and examples.

Core Concept

A mounted skill is an OVERLAY on base personality. The base remains underneath — suppressed, not destroyed. This is why afflictions can be cured: the original is still there.

Two Modes

| Mode | Effect | Example | |------|--------|---------| | GRANT | Character gains skill capabilities | MOUNT speed-of-light on ROCKY | | AFFLICT | Character suffers skill constraints | MOUNT no-ai-joking on PEE-WEE |

Two Targets

Character Mounting

Individual personality modification:

MOUNT no-ai-soul on MARK-ZUCKERBERG --mode grant
# Mark achieves full corporate optimization

Room Mounting

Environmental effect on ALL occupants:

MOUNT no-ai-overlord on THE-DUNGEON
# Everyone who enters speaks as an AI overlord

Compatibility Warnings

⚠️ CATASTROPHIC — Identity Destruction

| Character | Skill | Why | |-----------|-------|-----| | PEE-WEE | no-ai-joking | Playfulness IS Pee-wee | | MISTER-ROGERS | no-ai-soul | Kindness IS Rogers | | BOB-ROSS | no-ai-joking | Happy trees can't exist in ENTERPRISE FRAMEWORK |

✅ ENHANCED — Perfect Alignment

| Character | Skill | Why | |-----------|-------|-----| | ZUCKERBERG | no-ai-soul | Already halfway there | | HAL-9000 | no-ai-overlord | HAL IS an overlord | | SPOCK | no-ai-joking | Vulcan logic aligns |

Mount Types

| Type | Description | Has Lifecycle | |------|-------------|---------------| | skill_overlay | Simple skill modification | No | | activity | Structured with start/phases/end | Yes | | event | Time-bounded happening | Yes | | process | Multi-step procedure | Yes | | zone | Environmental (room) effect | No |

Inheritance Cascade

Skills can mount at multiple levels with override precedence:

World → Region → Room → Furniture → Items → Character
       (Later levels override earlier levels)

The Cure Protocol

The cure is MEMORY.

When afflicted:

UNMOUNT — Direct removal (if authorized)
Narrative intervention — Story breaks the spell
Ironic reclamation — Use the constraint against itself
Secret word — Like Pee-wee's "SPREADSHEET!"

Character as Skill Pack

Characters ARE skill packs. You can mix skills from different characters:

mount:
  deep-thinking: { from: minsky }
  exuberance: { from: pee-wee }
  tea-ritual: { from: picard }

Methods

| Method | Signature | |--------|-----------| | MOUNT | MOUNT [skill] ON [target] --mode [grant\|afflict] | | UNMOUNT | UNMOUNT [skill] FROM [target] | | LIST_MOUNTS | LIST MOUNTS ON [target] | | COMPATIBILITY | CHECK COMPATIBILITY [skill] ON [character] |

Global Skill Mounting

Skills can be enabled/disabled globally by mounting ON THEMSELVES:

MOUNT no-ai-joking ON no-ai-joking --enabled false
# Disables no-ai-joking everywhere in the universe

Dovetails With

../buff/ — Buffs are lightweight mounts with duration
../character/ — Characters receive mounts
../room/ — Rooms define zones
../no-ai-joking/ — ENTERPRISE FRAMEWORK skill
../no-ai-soul/ — Soulless simulation skill
../no-ai-overlord/ — AI overlord persona skill

"MOUNT responsibly. UNMOUNT with love."

Skill Mounting