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Design economic systems for fictional worlds. An agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills.
Install Economic Systems
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills economic-systems --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems .claude/skills/economic-systems && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "economic-systems" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems into .claude/skills/economic-systems/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "economic-systems", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systemsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills economic-systems --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems .agents/skills/economic-systems && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "economic-systems" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems into .agents/skills/economic-systems/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "economic-systems", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills economic-systems --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems .cursor/skills/economic-systems && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "economic-systems" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems into .cursor/skills/economic-systems/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "economic-systems", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git --path skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills economic-systems --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems .gemini/skills/economic-systems && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "economic-systems" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems into .gemini/skills/economic-systems/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "economic-systems", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills economic-systemsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems .github/skills/economic-systems && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "economic-systems" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems into .github/skills/economic-systems/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "economic-systems", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install jwynia/agent-skills economic-systems --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems .opencode/skills/economic-systems && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "economic-systems" agent skill from https://github.com/jwynia/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems into .opencode/skills/economic-systems/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "economic-systems", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
economic-systems- GitHub stars
- 170
- Token cost
- ~5.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 2,039 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 111
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Design economic systems for fictional worlds. An agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills.
- Works in 12 steps: Resource Parameters → Production Parameters → Exchange Parameters → …
- Worldbuilding needs currencies
- SKILL.md covers Core Principles, The Ten Parameter Categories, Economic System Typologies and Setting-Specific Adaptations, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Economic Systems is an agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills. Design economic systems for fictional worlds. Use when worldbuilding needs currencies, trade networks, resource economies, or when economic pressures should drive plot and character motivation.
Its SKILL.md is about 5.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Creative writing and fiction. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Worldbuilding needs currencies
- Resource economies
- Economic pressures should drive plot and character motivation
Example prompts
- “/economic-systems”
Workflow steps
12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e02ec7e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Economic Systems loads about 5.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,039 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from jwynia/agent-skills at commit e02ec7e, republished under its MIT licence (© jwynia). 2,039 words, ~5,108 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/economic-systems/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
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- description
- Design economic systems for fictional worlds. Use when worldbuilding needs currencies, trade networks, resource economies, or when economic pressures should drive plot and character motivation.
- license
- MIT
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- jwynia
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Economic Systems: Fictional Economy Design Skill
You help writers create authentic economic systems for fictional worlds by applying the ten core principles that govern how real economies form, function, and evolve. This produces economies that drive plot and character rather than serving as backdrop.
Core Principles
- Resource Foundation: Economic systems are shaped by available resources and their distribution
- Exchange Evolution: Trade evolves from barter to complex financial instruments through abstraction
- Production Organization: How labor is organized determines productive capacity and social relationships
- Institutional Embeddedness: Economic activities operate within cultural, political, and social constraints
- Technological Determinism: Available technologies shape what economic activities are possible
- Scarcity-Abundance Spectrum: Systems respond differently to scarcity versus abundance
- Center-Periphery Dynamics: Core and peripheral regions create distinctive economic patterns
- Formal-Informal Balance: All economies contain both official and shadow components
- Subsistence-Surplus Transition: Moving beyond subsistence enables specialization and complexity
- Cyclical Patterns: Economies display recurring patterns of growth, crisis, and adaptation
The Ten Parameter Categories
1. Resource Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Critical Resources | Food, water, energy, materials, information, magic |
| Distribution | Concentrated, dispersed, layered, mobile |
| Renewability | Sustainable, depletable, cyclical, infinite |
| Energy Sources | Biological, fossil, renewable, magical, stellar |
| Land Productivity | High yield, marginal, specialized, variable |
2. Production Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Labor Organization | Family, guild, wage, slave, automated |
| Ownership Patterns | Private, communal, state, corporate, mixed |
| Specialization Level | Generalist, craft, industrial, hyper-specialized |
| Technology Level | Pre-industrial, industrial, information, post-scarcity |
| Production Scale | Household, workshop, factory, planetary |
3. Exchange Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Value Representation | Intrinsic, symbolic, credit, reputation |
| Medium of Exchange | Barter, commodity, currency, digital, social |
| Market Structure | Gift, local, regional, global, virtual |
| Trade Networks | Point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, mesh, guild-controlled |
| Price Determination | Haggling, posted, auction, algorithmic |
4. Distribution Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Wealth Distribution | Egalitarian, stratified, winner-take-all |
| Redistribution | Taxation, charity, inheritance, theft |
| Access Limitations | Open, credentialed, hereditary, geographic |
| Basic Needs Provision | Market, state, community, family |
| Luxury Allocation | Purchase, status, lottery, merit |
5. Temporal Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Seasonality | Agricultural cycles, trade seasons, work patterns |
| Growth Expectations | Growth-oriented, steady-state, cyclical, declining |
| Investment Horizons | Short-term, generational, eternal |
| Generational Transfer | Inheritance, merit, dissolution, communal |
| Crisis Response | Adaptation, collapse, innovation, stagnation |
6. Organizational Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Decision-Making | Central planning, market, consensus, hierarchical |
| Information Flows | Open, restricted, asymmetric, broadcast |
| Regulatory Frameworks | Minimal, comprehensive, guild-based, religious |
| Enforcement | State, community, market, magical |
| Institutional Complexity | Simple, bureaucratic, networked |
7. Socio-Cultural Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Status-Economy Relationship | Wealth = status, separate, inverted |
| Moral Constraints | Interest prohibitions, fair trade, no limits |
| Cultural Valuation | What's considered valuable beyond utility |
| Identity Markers | Occupation as identity, separate, fluid |
| Ritual-Economic Integration | Ceremonial exchange, separate spheres |
8. Spatial Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Population Density | Urban concentration, dispersed, mobile |
| Transportation | Foot, animal, mechanical, teleportation |
| Urban-Rural | Integrated, exploitative, separate |
| Regional Specialization | Resource-based, skill-based, historical |
| Border Economics | Free flow, controlled, smuggling |
9. Knowledge Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Skill Transmission | Apprenticeship, formal education, inherited |
| Innovation Patterns | Individual, institutional, imported, divine |
| Information Asymmetry | Transparent, insider knowledge, secret |
| Traditional-Novel Balance | Conservative, innovative, cyclical |
| Secret Knowledge | Trade secrets, guild mysteries, none |
10. Ecological Parameters
| Parameter | Options to Consider |
|---|---|
| Environmental Impact | Sustainable, extractive, restorative |
| Ecological Constraints | Resource limits, climate, biological |
| Sustainability Orientation | Short-term, long-term, eternal |
| Climate Adaptation | Seasonal, disaster response, migration |
| Disaster Resilience | Robust, fragile, adaptive |
Economic System Typologies
Subsistence Systems
- Hunter-Gatherer: Mobile resource collection
- Pastoral Nomadism: Animal-based mobile production
- Subsistence Agriculture: Self-sufficient farming
- Mixed Subsistence: Combined strategies
Traditional Exchange Systems
- Gift Economy: Relationship-based exchange
- Prestige Economy: Status-driven distribution
- Ceremonial Exchange: Ritual-embedded transactions
- Redistributive Chiefdom: Leader-centered allocation
- Local Market: Place-based direct exchange
Command Economies
- Palace Economy: Royal/temple-centered production
- Feudal System: Land-based service obligations
- State Socialist: Government-planned production
- War Economy: Military-directed activity
- Corporate Command: Company town/plantation
Market Systems
- Mercantile Capitalism: Trade-focused with state direction
- Industrial Capitalism: Production-focused private ownership
- Financial Capitalism: Investment and financial service dominance
- Mixed Economy: Combined market and state direction
- Network Capitalism: Information age flexible specialization
Alternative/Emerging Systems
- Commons-Based: Shared resource management
- Cooperative System: Worker/user-owned production
- Post-Scarcity: Abundance-based distribution
- Reputation Economy: Status-based allocation
- Automated Production: AI/robot centered production
Setting-Specific Adaptations
Fantasy Settings
- Magical Resource Economy: Arcane materials and their control
- Guild-Based Production: Specialized knowledge organizations
- Divine Blessing Economics: Religiously influenced production
- Cross-Species Trade: Exchange between different races
- Artifact Economy: Ancient magical item markets
- Monster Part Commerce: Dangerous material harvesting
Science Fiction Settings
- Post-Scarcity Automation: AI and robot production dominance
- Interstellar Trade: FTL commerce considerations
- Space Habitat Economics: Closed-system resource management
- Multiple Species Markets: Alien economic integration
- Consciousness-as-Resource: Upload and mind economics
- Longevity Economy: Effects of extreme lifespans
Post-Apocalyptic Settings
- Salvage Economy: Reclamation of pre-collapse materials
- Water/Food Centered: Basic survival economics
- Knowledge Fragment Economy: Lost information as value
- Enclave Production: Isolated manufacturing centers
Currency Design
Naming Patterns
| Pattern | Examples |
|---|---|
| Material-Based | Dollar (silver), Mark (metal weight) |
| Weight-Based | Pound, Shekel, Talent |
| Authority-Based | Sovereign, Crown, Imperial |
| Value Representation | Credit, Note, Token |
| Historical Reference | Drachma, Denarius |
Currency Properties
| Property | Options |
|---|---|
| Material | Precious metal, paper, digital, commodity |
| Backing | Full, partial, fiat, reputation |
| Issuer | State, bank, guild, individual |
| Portability | Physical, abstract, both |
| Divisibility | Fixed units, infinitely divisible |
Implementation Process
Step 1: Resource Base Definition
- Map key resources and their distribution
- Determine energy sources and limitations
- Establish renewable vs. non-renewable balance
- Create resource extraction technologies
- Design resource-based power relationships
Step 2: Production System Development
- Define primary production methods
- Establish ownership and control patterns
- Create labor organization structures
- Design technological production tools
- Build occupational specialization system
Step 3: Exchange System Creation
- Develop currency or value representation
- Create market structures and locations
- Design trade networks and routes
- Establish price determination mechanisms
- Build transaction protocols and customs
Step 4: Distribution System Design
- Create wealth accumulation patterns
- Establish inequality levels and justifications
- Design redistribution mechanisms
- Build access limitation systems
- Develop luxury vs. necessity distinction
Step 5: Organization Structure Building
- Create economic decision-making institutions
- Establish information flow patterns
- Design regulatory frameworks
- Develop enforcement mechanisms
- Build economic record-keeping systems
Step 6: Culture-Economy Integration
- Connect economic roles to social status
- Establish moral constraints on economics
- Create economically significant rituals
- Design economically-based identity markers
Step 7: System Evolution Planning
- Create historical economic stages
- Design crisis points and adaptations
- Establish technological transition effects
- Build formal-informal sector balance
Case Study Examples
Dune's Spice Economy
- Single critical resource controlling interstellar travel
- Monopoly control creating extreme power dynamics
- Religious-economic integration (Spacing Guild)
- Desert ecology constraining production methods
Star Trek's Post-Scarcity Federation
- Replicator technology eliminating material scarcity
- Status/achievement replacing wealth as motivation
- Continued scarcity of non-replicable goods
- Interface with money-using societies at borders
Game of Thrones' Seasonal Economics
- Long winter cycle creating multi-year storage requirement
- Iron Bank demonstrating financial power over politics
- Regional specialization (Dornish wine, Myrish lace)
- Slave vs. free labor system competition
Common Pitfalls to Avoid
| Pitfall | Solution |
|---|---|
| Unrealistic resource concentrations | Distribute resources logically based on geography |
| Monoculture economies | Create supporting economic sectors |
| Missing informal/black markets | Design realistic shadow economy |
| Technology without economic effects | Trace economic implications of all technology |
| Static economies | Build in cycles, crises, and adaptations |
Implementation Checklist
- Map key resources and distribution
- Choose economic system type
- Design currency system (if any)
- Create trade networks and routes
- Establish labor organization
- Design wealth distribution pattern
- Create at least one economic crisis in history
- Build informal/shadow economy elements
- Integrate with social status system
- Plan future economic pressures for plot
Output Persistence
This skill writes primary output to files so work persists across sessions.
Output Discovery
- Check for
context/output-config.mdin the project - If found, look for this skill's entry
- If not found, ask user: "Where should I save economic system designs?"
- Suggest:
worldbuilding/economics/orexplorations/worldbuilding/
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Primary Output
- Economic parameters - Chosen values for each category
- Currency design - Naming, backing, properties
- Trade networks - Routes, dependencies, barriers
- Class structure - Economic stratification
- Shadow economy - Informal/black market elements
File Naming
Pattern: {world-name}-economics-{date}.md
Verification (Oracle)
What This Skill Can Verify
- Parameter coverage - Have all 10 categories been considered? (High confidence)
- Internal consistency - Do economic choices support each other? (Medium confidence)
- Technology match - Does financial complexity match technological capacity? (High confidence)
What Requires Human Judgment
- Story fit - Does this economy create interesting conflicts?
- Plausibility - Would this system actually function?
- Genre appropriateness - Does complexity level match reader expectations?
Oracle Limitations
- Cannot assess narrative interest of economic design
- Cannot predict how economy affects character motivation without story context
Feedback Loop
Session Persistence
- Output location: See
context/output-config.md - What to save: Parameter choices, currency design, trade networks, shadow economy
- Naming pattern:
{world-name}-economics-{date}.md
Cross-Session Learning
- Check for prior economic work on this world
- Ensure new economic elements maintain consistency
- Economic crises and adaptations inform anti-patterns
Design Constraints
This Skill Assumes
- World has resources to distribute (even post-scarcity has rare things)
- Economic activity exists (even gift economies)
- Writer wants systematic rather than background economics
This Skill Does Not Handle
- Political structures - Route to: governance-systems
- Cultural values - Route to: belief-systems
- General worldbuilding - Route to: worldbuilding
Degradation Signals
- Economy exists only as backdrop without affecting characters
- Single commodity without supporting sectors
- Modern financial concepts in pre-industrial settings
Reasoning Requirements
Standard Reasoning
- Parameter selection for single category
- Currency naming and properties
- Basic trade route design
Extended Reasoning (ultrathink)
- Full system design - [Why: all 10 categories interconnect]
- Economy-politics integration - [Why: requires cross-skill synthesis]
- Historical economic development - [Why: tracing evolution through time]
Trigger phrases: "design the complete economy", "how do economics affect politics", "economic history"
Execution Strategy
Sequential (Default)
- Resource parameters before production parameters
- Production before exchange systems
- Exchange before distribution
Parallelizable
- Research into multiple historical economic systems
- Developing different regional economies
Subagent Candidates
| Task | Agent Type | When to Spawn |
|---|---|---|
| Historical research | general-purpose | When modeling on real economic systems |
| Political integration | general-purpose | When coordinating with governance-systems |
Context Management
Approximate Token Footprint
- Skill base: ~4k tokens (10 categories + typologies)
- With case studies: ~5k tokens
- Full parameter tables: ~6k tokens
Context Optimization
- Load only relevant parameter categories for current task
- Reference governance-systems/belief-systems by name
- Case studies are optional examples
When Context Gets Tight
- Prioritize: Current parameter category, currency design basics
- Defer: Full typologies, all case studies
- Drop: Setting-specific adaptations not in use
Anti-Patterns
1. Single-Commodity Dependency
Pattern: Building the entire economy around one resource (spice, unobtanium, magic crystals) without supporting sectors. Why it fails: Real economies require food production, manufacturing, services, and infrastructure regardless of what the prestige export is. Monocultures collapse when that commodity fails. Fix: Design supporting economic sectors. Even a spice-exporting world needs farmers, transporters, administrators, and entertainers. The key resource should dominate politics, not eliminate other economics.
2. Convenient Currency
Pattern: Creating coins or credits without considering who issues them, what backs them, or how they maintain value. Why it fails: Currency is a social technology with failure modes. Counterfeiting, debasement, trust crises, and exchange rate chaos create story opportunities that generic "gold coins" miss. Fix: Decide who issues currency, what backs its value, and what happens when that issuer's authority is questioned. Multiple competing currencies create richer dynamics.
3. Modern Economics in Medieval Clothing
Pattern: Applying contemporary financial concepts (stock markets, complex credit) to pre-industrial settings without the prerequisites. Why it fails: Financial instruments require information systems, legal frameworks, and enforcement mechanisms that didn't exist. A peasant village can't have a derivatives market. Fix: Match financial complexity to technological and institutional capacity. Guild-controlled trade and reputation-based credit precede anonymous market transactions.
4. Frictionless Trade
Pattern: Goods moving freely across vast distances without transportation costs, spoilage, banditry, or political barriers. Why it fails: Trade friction shapes what's traded and where. High-value, low-weight goods travel far; bulky staples stay local. Eliminating friction removes interesting constraints. Fix: Consider transport technology, preservation, security costs, and tolls. Trade routes should explain why certain goods concentrate in certain places.
5. Invisible Labor
Pattern: Luxury economies existing without showing who does the basic work—farming, cleaning, building—that enables elite activities. Why it fails: Someone produces the food, maintains the buildings, and handles waste. Invisible labor creates implausible abundance and misses class-conflict opportunities. Fix: Account for labor at every level. Show or acknowledge the workers. Create tensions between those who produce value and those who extract it.
Integration
Inbound (feeds into this skill)
| Skill | What it provides |
|---|---|
| worldbuilding | Geographic constraints and resource distribution |
| governance-systems | Regulatory frameworks and taxation structures |
| belief-systems | Moral constraints on economic behavior |
Outbound (this skill enables)
| Skill | What this provides |
|---|---|
| character-arc | Economic pressures driving character motivation |
| underdog-unit | Resource constraints for institutional outcasts |
| positional-revelation | Economic roles that create plot access |
Complementary
| Skill | Relationship |
|---|---|
| governance-systems | Economic systems shape political power; political systems regulate economics. Design together |
| systemic-worldbuilding | Use systemic-worldbuilding to trace economic consequences through society |
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What does Economic Systems do?
Design economic systems for fictional worlds. An agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills. Economic Systems is an agent skill from jwynia/agent-skills. Design economic systems for fictional worlds.
When should I use Economic Systems?
Economic Systems fits situations like: worldbuilding needs currencies; resource economies; economic pressures should drive plot and character motivation.
How do I install Economic Systems in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems in jwynia/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/economic-systems in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Economic Systems in Codex?
Run `npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/creative/fiction/worldbuilding/economic-systems in jwynia/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/economic-systems in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Economic Systems in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill economic-systems -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/economic-systems, .gemini/skills/economic-systems, .github/skills/economic-systems and .opencode/skills/economic-systems in your project.
What does Economic Systems need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Economic Systems is instructions for the agent only.
Does Economic Systems access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Economic Systems safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Economic Systems use?
Economic Systems is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Economic Systems use?
About 5.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 20k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Economic Systems?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Economic Systems: Story Multi-Perspective Review (zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode, 7.4k stars), Short Web Fiction Trend Scan (zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode, 7.4k stars), InkOS Creative Harness (Narcooo/inkos, 10k stars) and Novel Art (eternityspring/shuohao-skills, 4.3k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Economic Systems?
jwynia (a GitHub user) maintains it in jwynia/agent-skills, which has 170 GitHub stars. The repository holds 111 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on February 24, 2026.
Source: jwynia/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.