narrative-opposition-web
Narrative Opposition Web
Table of Contents
- Core Principles
- Workflow
- Opponent Warrant Tiers
- When the Protagonist Is a System
- Guardrails
- Quick Reference
Related skills: Use dialectical-mapping-steelmanning for deep steelmanning of one opposing position, writing-structure-planner for the sequence the web will be delivered in, deliberation-debate-red-teaming for attacking your own thesis, causal-inference-root-cause when the question is causation rather than opposition. Use systemic-protagonist for the full agency-repair table and the responsibility-laundering check that this skill's system section only summarises, narrative-arc-mapping for the mandatory-seven triage that consumes the warranted opponent.
Attribution caveat, carry it into any output: four-corner opposition, the same-goal rule, and the opponent's justification requirement are John Truby's (The Anatomy of Story). Everything numeric in this skill — three appearances per corner, three-of-three warrant evidence, four-corner maximum — is a derived operational default set for auditability, not a published threshold from Truby or anyone else. State it as a default you chose, never as a rule someone established. The word "satellite" for a corner that only opposes the protagonist is this skill's label, not a term of art.