Technique Skill: Mechanics (devices, game mechanics, map templates)

A recipe here says how to REBUILD something you already built and sold or used: a stand-alone device for Fab (for example a rank system), a game mechanic made of devices and Verse, or a whole map template. Anyone using the kit can then have it rebuilt without starting from zero. Nothing is learned without the owner's approval; a recipe saved from a Fab product counts as confirmed at once, from a map it needs a second map.

Rebuild from a recipe

1. python Claude/hooks/skills_lib.py recipes mechanics <keyword> (in a Fab product: the same command from the profile hooks folder).
2. Take the closest recipe. Follow its steps in order: place the devices, set the settings, connect the wiring, create the files (Verse) exactly as given, gather the assets, then do what verify says. Use the UEFN MCP for what it can do; give the owner the steps for the rest.
3. Say what you changed from the recipe and why. If nothing is close, build it and save a new recipe afterwards.

Save a recipe (when the owner confirms the mechanic works)

Fab product: python fab_lab.py draft-recipe <project> "<recipe name>" writes a draft JSON (Verse files with their code, the editor calls that worked in order, TODO fields). Fill every TODO from what really happened, then python skills_lib.py recipe-add mechanics <file.json> "<product or map name>".

JSON fields: name, kind (device | mechanic | template), use (what it is for, one or two sentences), steps (ordered, each one a sentence), devices (list of "name: what it does"), settings (what to set on which device), wiring (what is connected to what), files (list of {name, code} for Verse), assets (what it needs, with where it comes from), verify (how to see that it works).

The kit also prepares a recipe by itself from the Verse code (a Fab product, or every folder with a device in a map); refine it when you know more. The owner decides on the Skills page whether a recipe is shared in the kit.

No map names, personal paths, links or task ids in the text.

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