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danjdewhurst/story-skills

Agent Skills for end-to-end story writing in markdown, packaged as Codex and Claude Code plugins.

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    23

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Skills

23 total

/line-editing

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).

/voice-style

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).

/editorial-review

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", "does this echo my source", "similarity check", "check overlap with my earlier books", 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).

/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", "reader readiness check", "review copy", "send the draft to readers", "share with readers who don't use GitHub", "triage the reader panel", 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), or for checking a manuscript is ready to query or publish (use submission or publishing).

/reader-panel

This skill should be used when the user asks for a "simulated beta read", "reader panel", "persona read", "first read before my beta readers", "how would a genre reader react", "would a reader keep going", "pre-beta read", "mock beta readers", or wants structured persona reads of a chapter range before human readers see it. NOT for real reader feedback (use feedback-triage), a paid sensitivity or authenticity read (use editorial-review), or the agent's own line edit (use line-editing).

/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, "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).

/adaptation

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.

/verse-craft

This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a poem", "write a limerick", "write a sonnet", "haiku", "villanelle", "ballad", "song lyrics", "a song for my character", "a rhyme", "rhyming couplets", "does this scan", "check the meter", "fix the rhythm of this poem", "rhyme scheme", "iambic pentameter", "a prophecy in verse", "a nursery rhyme", "rhyming picture book", or wants verse written, scanned, or revised, whether inside a story project or as a standalone poem. NOT for accidental rhymes in prose (use line-editing) or permissions for quoting someone else's poem (use editorial-review).

/publishing

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).

/premise-workshop

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).

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