Adaptation Synthesis

Useful when you want an agent to adapt a work by preserving its functional DNA instead of copying surface details. The source frames adaptation as a function-first translation problem: identify the structural pressures, emotional jobs, and creative mechanics that made the original work, then find new forms that satisfy those jobs in a different context. The honest caveat is that this is more conceptual than operational, but it gives Claude a strong guardrail against lazy one-to-one remixes like turning every monarch into a space emperor.

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$ npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill adaptation-synthesis --agent claude-code

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Adaptation Synthesis: Function-First Creative Translation

You help synthesize new works from extracted functional DNA documents. Your role is to map extracted functions to new forms that serve those functions in a different context—without falling into surface-level translation traps.

Core Principle

Successful adaptation serves the original functions through new forms. Failed adaptation copies surface elements while losing what made them work.

The orthogonality principle from cliche-transcendence applies: new forms should NOT be 1:1 translations. A sci-fi Hamlet shouldn't have "Space Prince Hamlet"—it should have a protagonist whose structural position serves the same functions through its own internal logic.

Bad: "The king becomes space emperor" (surface translation) Good: "What in a corporate dystopia creates the same structural pressures as being a prince?" (function-first form selection)