Daniel Dewhurst

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. NOT for planning a scene's structure, subtext, or outcome (use scene-craft), drafting without an outline (use discovery-drafting), or revising existing chapters (use revision-continuity).

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 recording or checking character voices (use voice-style), rewriting dialogue so the voices differ (use line-editing), or a thematic arc's lie, truth, and arc type (use theme-craft).

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", "snowflake method", or wants to plan and manage the narrative structure of a story. It owns book-level pacing; NOT for the craft of scene outcomes or chapter hooks, which this skill only plans in the outline (use scene-craft), or a pacing check as a revision pass (use revision-continuity).

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", "reverse outline", "cut a subplot", "revision passes", "what pass next", "pacing check" as a revision pass, "clue check", "cut to a word count", or "length pass", or to prepare existing story material for the next revision pass. NOT for planning book structure (use plot-structure), scene-level craft (use scene-craft), voice consistency (use voice-style), or reconciling a chapter drafted by discovery (use discovery-drafting).

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. NOT for a sequel or prequel (use series-continuity), or for finding the idea before a project exists (use premise-workshop).

This skill should be used when the user asks to "validate", "reindex", "repair registries", "check links", "run the continuity, pacing, clue, voice, or name checks", "count words", "summarize a story project", "import an existing manuscript", "export a manuscript", "run a build", "generate a diagram", "record revision-pass status with `story passes`", "run the story CLI", or wants deterministic maintenance on a Story Skills markdown project. It runs the CLI and reads its output; NOT for judging a finding or revising the story to fix it (use revision-continuity for continuity errors and revision passes, plot-structure for pacing, voice-style for voices and prose, genre-craft for clues and fair play), or for sharing a review copy with readers (use feedback-triage).