Learned Abilities

generateLearnedAbilities

Evaluates story events for opportunities to grant new abilities. Low priority: most turns produce no output. Use custom to define the world's learnable ability families and acquisition methods.

In the editor

"Learned Abilities Instructions"

Editor location: AI Tasks → Advanced → Learned Abilities
Editor type: Graphical form (labeled textareas)
API endpoint: /api/sections/generateLearnedAbilities.json /api/sections/generateLearnedAbilities.md
Size limits: Each string leaf under a task (aiInstructions.<task>.<key>) — 5,000 chars

Per task (aiInstructions.<task> total, sum of instruction chars) — 20,000 chars

Last updated Jun 2, 2026

Schema

{
  "aiInstructions": {
    "generateLearnedAbilities": {
      "custom": "string"
    }
  }
}

Example

{
  "aiInstructions": {
    "generateLearnedAbilities": {
      "custom": "## Learnable Abilities\nThis world admits four families: arcane spells, martial disciplines, crafting techniques, and social arts. Each requires a teacher, an apprenticeship arc, or a moment of revelation. Avoid raw 'X gains ability Y' jumps."
    }
  }
}

Fields

custom

The only key — free-form rules for what is learnable in this world and how it is acquired.

Authoring pattern

Cover in custom:

What families of abilities exist in this world (magical schools, martial techniques, social arts, crafting trades).
The rough boundary between learnable and impossible — what the world’s logic rules out.
How abilities are typically acquired: teachers, training arcs, moments of revelation, finding ancient texts.