story-skills
v0.4.0A suite of cross-referenced skills and CLI maintenance tools for end-to-end story writing powered by markdown. Covers story initialization, character management, worldbuilding, plot structure, chapter writing, revision, validation, reporting, indexing, word counts, and manuscript export.
By Daniel DewhurstLicense: MIT232 GitHub starsUpdated 3 days ago
Directory evidence
- Runtimes
- Codex and Claude Code
- Parsed components
- 8 skill or MCP entries
- Source updated
- Sep 20, 2026
- Manifest status
- Canonical path parsed
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Install story-skills for Codex and Claude Code
codex plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
codex plugin marketplace upgrade agent-plugin-marketplace
codex plugin add story-skills@agent-plugin-marketplacePaste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.
The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.
Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skillsClone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.
Plugin files
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json├── skills/chapter-writing/SKILL.md├── skills/character-management/SKILL.md├── skills/plot-structure/SKILL.md├── skills/revision-continuity/SKILL.md├── skills/series-continuity/SKILL.md├── skills/story-init/SKILL.md├── skills/story-maintenance/SKILL.md└── skills/worldbuilding/SKILL.md
Included Skills8
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", or needs to manage characters in a story project.
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", "act structure", "story arc", "plot outline", or wants to plan and manage the narrative structure of a story.
This skill should be used when the user asks to revise a chapter, edit prose, continuity check, find inconsistencies, audit character state, check timeline consistency, line edit, developmental edit, polish a draft, or prepare existing story material for the next revision pass.
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, run the story CLI, or perform deterministic maintenance on a Story Skills markdown project.
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", or wants to develop any aspect of a story's world and setting.
Plugin manifests2
{
"name": "story-skills",
"version": "0.4.0",
"description": "A suite of cross-referenced skills and CLI maintenance tools for end-to-end story writing powered by markdown. Covers story initialization, character management, worldbuilding, plot structure, chapter writing, revision, validation, reporting, indexing, word counts, and manuscript export.",
"author": {
"name": "Daniel Dewhurst",
"url": "https://github.com/danjdewhurst"
},
"homepage": "https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills",
"repository": "https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills",
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"story",
"writing",
"fiction",
"characters",
"worldbuilding",
"chapters",
"revision"
],
"skills": "./skills/",
"interface": {
"displayName": "Story Skills",
"shortDescription": "Plan stories, manage characters and worlds, and write chapters.",
"longDescription": "Story Skills adds end-to-end fiction-writing workflows for Codex: story initialization, character management, worldbuilding, plot structure, chapter writing, revision and continuity audits, and deterministic project maintenance with markdown registries and YAML frontmatter.",
"developerName": "Daniel Dewhurst",
"category": "Productivity",
"capabilities": [
"Plan",
"Write"
],
"defaultPrompt": [
"Start a new story.",
"Create a character profile.",
"Write the next chapter.",
"Continuity-check my latest chapter.",
"Validate my story project."
],
"brandColor": "#7C3AED"
}
}{
"name": "story-skills",
"version": "0.4.0",
"description": "A suite of cross-referenced skills and CLI maintenance tools for end-to-end story writing powered by markdown. Covers story initialization, character management, worldbuilding, plot structure, chapter writing, revision, validation, reporting, indexing, word counts, and manuscript export.",
"author": {
"name": "Daniel Dewhurst"
},
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"story",
"writing",
"fiction",
"characters",
"worldbuilding",
"chapters",
"revision"
]
}For maintainers
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