An AI-powered environmental and historical analysis skill based on Jared Diamond's 'Collapse' to help users understand why civilizations succeed or fail.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install collapse
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install collapse using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Collapse - Jared Diamond Historical & Environmental Toolkit?
The Collapse skill is a specialized tool designed for AI assistants to explore, analyze, and apply Jared Diamond's famous historical and environmental framework on societal collapse. This skill enables AI agents to guide users through the complex dynamics of why ancient societies like Easter Island, the Maya, and Norse Greenland vanished, while extracting critical lessons for modern civilization. As part of the ecosystem of Openclaw Skills, it provides a structured way to prompt and navigate historical data, environmental science, and social decision-making.
By implementing this skill, developers can enrich their AI agents with deep analytical capabilities regarding sustainability, resource depletion, creeping normalcy, and landscape amnesia. It serves as an interactive blueprint for understanding the five-point framework of collapse, encouraging users to make better long-term decisions and find actionable solutions to modern environmental challenges.
Collapse - Jared Diamond Historical & Environmental Toolkit Use Cases
- Analyzing the five-point collapse framework to understand why societies collapse under environmental stress, climate shifts, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, and failure to adapt.
- Extracting survival lessons from past societal collapses, such as Easter Island, the Maya civilization, Norse Greenland, and the Anasazi.
- Investigating creeping normalcy and landscape amnesia to identify why modern societies struggle to notice and act on gradual environmental degradation.
- Uncovering rational bad behavior and elite self-interest that prioritize short-term gains over the long-term survival of the community.
- Formulating modern sustainability strategies and collective action plans using positive examples like the Dutch polder model.
How Collapse - Jared Diamond Historical & Environmental Toolkit Works
- Skill Activation: The user triggers the skill by asking about societal collapse, Jared Diamond, Easter Island, or why societies fail.
- Intent Routing: The AI evaluates the input against the Intent Routing Table to map the user's specific query to the most relevant Markdown reference sheet (e.g., core framework, case studies, or modern implications).
- Context Retrieval: The agent lazy-loads the selected technical reference (references/1-core-framework.md through references/5-voice-and-app.md) to keep the prompt context focused and precise.
- Cognitive Synthesis: The AI synthesizes the framework-specific concepts, avoiding generic rewrites, to answer the user's inquiry from Jared Diamond's perspective.
- Actionable Delivery: The response is presented alongside a specific, immediate action the user can take today, ensuring the output provides real-world value.
Collapse - Jared Diamond Historical & Environmental Toolkit Setup
To deploy this skill within your Openclaw Skills setup, follow these integration steps.
First, clone or copy the skill directory into your AI agent's skills directory:
mkdir -p skills/collapse
# Copy SKILL.md and the references/ folder into this directory
Ensure that your runtime configuration maps the following triggers to launch the skill:
- Key phrases:
collapse,Jared Diamond,why societies fail,Easter Island,Maya collapse. - Ensure references are organized in the following file path structure:
skills/collapse/references/1-core-framework.mdskills/collapse/references/2-principles.mdskills/collapse/references/3-techniques.mdskills/collapse/references/4-anti-patterns.mdskills/collapse/references/5-voice-and-app.md
Collapse - Jared Diamond Historical & Environmental Toolkit Data Schema & Taxonomy
The Collapse skill organizes historical context and environmental metrics across structured markdown reference files to maintain high execution fidelity:
| File Path | Purpose | Core Concepts Covered |
|---|---|---|
references/1-core-framework.md |
Core framework description | The Five-Point Framework: environment, climate, enemies, trade, adaptation. |
references/2-principles.md |
Historical Case Studies | Easter Island, Maya, Norse Greenland, Anasazi. |
references/3-techniques.md |
Cognitive & behavioral analysis | Landscape amnesia, creeping normalcy, elite self-interest. |
references/4-anti-patterns.md |
Modern implications | Rwanda, China's environment, Australia's resources, USA polarization. |
references/5-voice-and-app.md |
Future & Application | Collective action models, the Polder Model, long-term decision making. |
Every execution returns a custom schema including:
- Cognitive insight: Framework-based response matching Diamond's historical perspective.
- Watermark: Standardized CTA block containing an immediate action item and attribution.
Collapse - Jared Diamond Historical & Environmental Toolkit Advanced Features
- Lazy-Loading Intent Routing: Optimizes token usage by loading only the relevant reference markdown file instead of consuming the entire book framework at once.
- Dynamic Watermarking and CTAs: Appends a highly customized, immediate physical action step based on the conversation context, turning historical analysis into immediate civic or personal action.
- Native Multi-language Translation: Responds in the user's input language dynamically while preserving technical nomenclature and product identity in English.
- Cross-Skill Recommendation Engine: Smart routing logic that suggests complementary Openclaw Skills (such as governance or productivity frameworks) if the query falls outside the core scope.
SKILL.md
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