story-skills

This skill should be used when the user asks to "make an audiobook", "narration script", "narrator", "ACX", "Findaway", "pronunciation guide", "how long is the audiobook", "adapt to a screenplay", "Fountain", "screenplay", "picture book", "spreads", "illustration notes", "art notes", "comic script", "comics script", "graphic novel", "panels", "interactive fiction", "Ink", "Twine", "choose your own adventure", "translate the book", "translation", "foreign edition", "glossary for translators", or wants to turn a story project into another form or language.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a chapter", "next chapter", "chapter outline", "draft chapter", "continue the story", "write a scene", "outline a chapter", or wants to write prose for a story project.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a character", "update a character", "add a character", "build a family tree", "character relationships", "character timeline", "character arc", "character profile", "relationship graph", "name a character", or needs to manage characters in a story project. NOT for character voices or dialogue style (use voice-style).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "reverse outline", "cut a subplot", "dead end", "drafting sprint", "writing cadence", or wants to draft a story by discovery with retrospective bible reconciliation.

This skill should be used when the user asks for a "sensitivity reader", "authenticity reader", "cultural review", "is this portrayal okay", "real people in my novel", "defamation", "can I use song lyrics", "epigraph permission", "permissions", "quote permission", "fair use", "AI disclosure", "do I need to disclose AI", "send to my editor", "editorial round", "Word file for my editor", "editor review copy", "co-author", "collaborate on a book", "shared world", "back up my book", or wants to run human editorial, ethics, permissions, or collaboration workflows around a story project. NOT for contracts or selling rights (use publishing) or reader feedback rounds (use feedback-triage).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "process beta reader feedback", "alpha reader feedback", "feedback round", "synthesize reader feedback", "reader notes", "beta feedback", "readiness check", "review copy", "send the draft to readers", "share with readers who don't use GitHub", or wants to collect, reconcile, and act on external reader feedback for a story project. NOT for rounds with a professional editor (use editorial-review).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "mystery", "fair play", "clue", "red herring", "romance beats", "HEA", "thriller", "ticking clock", "horror", "dread", "MG", "YA", "middle grade", "young adult", "science fiction", "sci-fi", "serial", "episodic", "web serial", "genre conventions", or wants genre-specific structural craft for a story project.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "line edit", "edit my prose", "polish this chapter", "tighten the prose", "improve the sentences", "copyedit", "proofread", "proof pass", "check grammar and punctuation", "dialogue punctuation", "make the voices distinct", "everyone sounds the same", "read it aloud", "read-aloud pass", "text to speech", or wants a sentence-level quality pass on drafted chapters that preserves the author's voice. NOT for creating the style sheet or checking voice consistency (use voice-style).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a plot arc", "story structure", "add a plot point", "story timeline", "track foreshadowing", "pacing", "sagging middle", "act structure", "story arc", "plot outline", or wants to plan and manage the narrative structure of a story. It owns book-level pacing; NOT for scene outcomes or writing a chapter hook (use scene-craft).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm a story idea", "I have an idea for a story", "what if", "develop a premise", "is this idea strong enough", "workshop my logline", "premise", "story concept", "what should I write", "short story or novel", "novella or novel", "name my book", "title ideas", or has a spark (an image, a character, a setting, a question) and wants to turn it into a tested premise before starting a story project. NOT for the controlling idea or theme of an existing story (use theme-craft).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "self-publish", "publish my book", "ISBN", "copyright page", "book metadata", "BISAC", "keywords", "KDP", "IngramSpark", "Draft2Digital", "go wide", "Kindle Unlimited", "print interior", "trim size", "paperback", "ebook", "EPUB", "cover wrap", "spine width", "pricing", "launch plan", "ARC team", "advance readers", "newsletter", "reader magnet", "Amazon ads", "BookBub", "rights", "foreign rights", "audio rights", "film rights", "publishing contract", or wants to take a finished manuscript through production, distribution, launch, and rights management. It owns contracts and rights sales; NOT for permission to quote lyrics, epigraphs, or other material in the book (use editorial-review).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "research", "fact-check", "check the history", "is this accurate", "research notes", "sources", "historical accuracy", "technical accuracy", "how would this really work", "verify a detail", "interview an expert", "plan a site visit", "expert review", or needs to investigate and record the real-world facts a story relies on and the chapters that use them.

This skill should be used when the user asks to revise a chapter, continuity check, find inconsistencies, audit character state, check timeline consistency, developmental edit, structural revision, "revision passes", "what pass next", "pacing check" as a revision pass, "clue check", or prepare existing story material for the next revision pass. NOT for planning book structure (use plot-structure), scene-level craft (use scene-craft), or voice consistency (use voice-style).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a scene", "scene structure", "sequel scene", "dialogue subtext", "deep POV", "psychic distance", "try fail", "scene cards", "exposition", "info dump", "flashback", "time skip", "story opening", "first page hook", "introduce a character", "scene outcome", "yes-but no-and", "chapter hook", or wants scene-level craft for drafting or revision. NOT for book-level pacing or act structure (use plot-structure).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a sequel", "write a prequel", "start book two", "continue the series", "companion novel", "spin-off", "link books in a series", "carry characters into the next book", "series continuity", "series bible", or needs to keep canon consistent across multiple Story Skills projects.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "start a new story", "initialize a story project", "create a story", "new book", "set up a story", or wants to begin a new fiction writing project from scratch.

This skill should be used when the user asks to validate, reindex, repair registries, check links, check continuity, count words, summarize a story project, import an existing manuscript, export a manuscript, build a review copy or print interior, generate a diagram, check pacing, clues, voices, or names, track revision passes, run the story CLI, or perform deterministic maintenance on a Story Skills markdown project.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a query letter", "query", "querying", "pitch", "blurb", "back cover copy", "jacket copy", "comp titles", "comparable titles", "synopsis for agents", "submit to agents", "submission tracker", "self-publishing description", "retailer description", or wants to prepare and track a finished manuscript's submission to agents, publishers, or retailers.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "theme", "controlling idea", "thematic argument", "moral argument", "character arc", "flat arc", "negative arc", "the lie", "antagonist design", "motif", "symbolism", "theme audit", or wants to plan, track, or revise the thematic layer of a story. NOT for finding or testing a story premise (use premise-workshop).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a style sheet", "style guide", "house style", "keep the voice consistent", "voice drift", "British or American spelling", "character voices", "lint the prose", "prose check", "filter words", "said-bookisms", "overused words", "repeated phrases", "similar character names", "voice fingerprints", or wants to record and enforce the voice and surface conventions of a story project. NOT for rewriting lines when everyone sounds the same (use line-editing).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a location", "add a location", "magic system", "political system", "build the world", "add culture", "world history", "technology system", "religion", "economy", "map", "travel times", "routes", "calendar", "moons", "seasons", "naming language", "conlang names", "trade routes", "supply lines", "magic cost", or wants to develop any aspect of a story's world and setting.