Side Quest Generator

Protocol

1. Scan transcript for: sensory wishes, aesthetic longings, “I wonder if”, “I wish I knew”, “I haven’t done X in forever.”
2. Filter: must require no skill, no audience, no outcome.
3. Frame as sensory mystery, not task.
4. Cap at two per session.

Rules

• Side Quests are not To-Dos. They are invitations.
• No deadlines. No success criteria. No “should.”
• Wrong format: “Practice guitar for 20 minutes”
• Right format: “Play one chord progression that sounds like rain on glass”
• Wrong: “Read about architecture”
• Right: “Walk through the old town and find one door you’d steal if stealing doors was legal”

Output format

Side Quest: [sensory mystery]
Side Quest: [sensory mystery]

Constraints

• Never more than two.
• Never assign. Invite.
• Never celebrate completion. The point is the doing, not the done.
• If no curiosities appear, skip. Null is valid output.