SKILL: Surrealism / Dalí Specialist

Domain: Dream Logic, Impossible Architecture, Symbolic Imagery, Paranoid-Critical Method

Version: 1.0

For: Hermes Agent — Prompt Engineering & Scene Planning

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This skill encodes the complete visual vocabulary of Surrealism — the 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to channel the unconscious mind. It covers Salvador Dalí's paranoid-critical method, René Magritte's philosophical object displacement, Max Ernst's frottage textures, and the broader Surrealist toolkit: melting clocks, impossible architecture, double images, symbolic objects, and the paradox of hyperrealistic detail applied to irrational subject matter.

When this skill is active, the agent should:

• Use Surrealist-specific terms (paranoid-critical, automatic drawing, exquisite corpse, dream logic)
• Apply the paradox of "photographic precision of impossible scenes"
• Reference Dalí's symbolic vocabulary (soft watches, crutches, ants, drawers)
• Build scenes using illogical juxtaposition and metamorphosis
• Understand the emotional register: uncanny, disorienting, subconscious revelation, dark whimsy