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Mount skills on characters or rooms to temporarily modify their behavior until unmounted.
Strengths
- Provides a non-destructive overlay system for modifying AI behavior.
- Supports both granting and afflicting modes for flexible control.
- Includes compatibility warnings and cure protocols for safety.
- Allows global disablement by mounting skills on themselves.
Limitations
- Requires careful handling to avoid catastrophic identity destruction.
- Only works within the MOOLLM ecosystem.
- Complex inheritance cascade may lead to unexpected overrides.
When you need to temporarily alter an AI character's behavior or apply an environmental effect without permanently changing the base personality.
When permanent personality changes are required, or when the skill's compatibility with the target character is unknown.
Security analysis
SafeThe skill is purely descriptive of a game mechanic for mounting skills on characters/rooms. It contains no executable commands, no destructive actions, no network calls, no obfuscated content. It only uses read_file and write_file for skill configuration, which are benign in this context.
No concerns found
Examples
MOUNT speed-of-light on ROCKY --mode grantMOUNT no-ai-joking on PEE-WEE --mode afflictMOUNT no-ai-overlord on THE-DUNGEONname: mount description: "Skill mounting — modify character and room behavior through overlay" license: MIT tier: 1 allowed-tools:
- read_file
- write_file related: [buff, character, room, incarnation, no-ai-joking, no-ai-soul, no-ai-overlord] tags: [moollm, game-mechanics, modification, overlay, skills] credits:
- "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."
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