From 788fb4eca0178abe283a0f5d53a5c18232a96245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:35:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 01/11] feat(story): add the story writing family as a separate, experimental skill family (WM-003) Ports seven fiction skills, their references, shared story rules and the story vault starter from a private research workspace, and adds story-voice-review. A writing-mode policy, reciprocal exclusions, a link firewall and vault kind markers keep story writing apart from replies, documentation and presentation videos. Review findings are resolved. Host routing evals not yet run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json | 2 +- .claude-plugin/plugin.json | 8 +- .codex-plugin/plugin.json | 12 +- README.md | 55 +- THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md | 14 + docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md | 377 ++++++++++ docs/usage.md | 35 +- evals/claude/expected.json | 226 ++++++ evals/codex/expected.json | 226 ++++++ evals/shared/triggers/docs-release-note.json | 9 + .../shared/triggers/story-beta-feedback.json | 17 + evals/shared/triggers/story-canon-review.json | 17 + .../shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json | 16 + .../triggers/story-in-world-manual.json | 16 + .../triggers/story-method-documentation.json | 7 + evals/shared/triggers/story-new-vault.json | 13 + evals/shared/triggers/story-vault-readme.json | 15 + evals/shared/triggers/story-voice-review.json | 18 + .../triggers/story-world-tutorial-video.json | 14 + .../triggers/study-vault-draft-request.json | 12 + .../shared/triggers/vault-parent-session.json | 18 + method.json | 10 +- pyproject.toml | 2 +- shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md | 7 + shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md | 4 + shared/policies/writing-depth.md | 3 + shared/policies/writing-mode.md | 195 +++++ shared/story/retrieval.md | 47 ++ shared/story/rules.md | 46 ++ shared/story/sources.md | 74 ++ shared/story/story-development.md | 81 ++ shared/story/voice-and-tone.md | 61 ++ shared/story/workflow.md | 71 ++ skills/documentation-authoring/SKILL.md | 4 +- skills/documentation-review/SKILL.md | 4 +- skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md | 6 +- skills/explaining-concepts/SKILL.md | 6 +- skills/human-prose-drafting/SKILL.md | 6 +- skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md | 48 ++ skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md | 51 ++ skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md | 38 + skills/story-characters/SKILL.md | 38 + skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md | 40 + .../references/sequential-fiction-study.md | 42 ++ skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md | 80 ++ .../references/action-sequences.md | 33 + 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templates/story-vault/90-templates/term.md | 20 + templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md | 39 + .../story-vault/90-templates/world-entry.md | 25 + templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md | 52 ++ templates/story-vault/CLAUDE.md | 5 + templates/story-vault/START.md | 63 ++ tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json | 368 +++++++++ tests/test_writing_contracts.py | 40 +- tests/test_writing_mode.py | 703 ++++++++++++++++++ third-party/sources.lock.json | 10 +- 97 files changed, 4306 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/docs-release-note.json create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-beta-feedback.json create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-canon-review.json create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-in-world-manual.json create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-method-documentation.json create mode 100644 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templates/story-vault/CLAUDE.md create mode 100644 templates/story-vault/START.md create mode 100644 tests/test_writing_mode.py diff --git a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json index b5ea565..ca53167 100644 --- a/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json +++ b/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "name": "writing-method", "metadata": { - "description": "Reader-oriented writing and documentation workflows." + "description": "Reader-oriented writing and documentation workflows, plus an experimental story-writing family." }, "owner": { "name": "Peter Hense" diff --git a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json index d190b92..f857997 100644 --- a/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +++ b/.claude-plugin/plugin.json @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ { "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/claude-code-plugin-manifest.json", "name": "writing-method", - "version": "0.3.0", - "description": "Reader-oriented writing, documentation workflows, local PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos.", + "version": "0.4.0", + "description": "Reader-oriented writing, documentation workflows, local PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos, plus an experimental story-writing family kept separate from them.", "author": { "name": "Peter Hense" }, @@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ "review", "pdf", "video", - "tutorial" + "tutorial", + "story", + "fiction" ], "displayName": "Peter's Writing Method", "homepage": "https://github.com/phense/writing-method", diff --git a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json index f5ca479..0252561 100644 --- a/.codex-plugin/plugin.json +++ b/.codex-plugin/plugin.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "name": "writing-method", - "version": "0.3.0", - "description": "Reader-oriented writing, documentation workflows, local PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos.", + "version": "0.4.0", + "description": "Reader-oriented writing, documentation workflows, local PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos, plus an experimental story-writing family kept separate from them.", "author": { "name": "Peter Hense" }, @@ -12,13 +12,15 @@ "review", "pdf", "video", - "tutorial" + "tutorial", + "story", + "fiction" ], "skills": "./skills/", "interface": { "displayName": "Peter's Writing Method", - "shortDescription": "Writing, documentation and local PDF workflows", - "longDescription": "Reader-oriented planning, authoring, review and PDF delivery with shared method support.", + "shortDescription": "Documentation, PDF and tutorial video workflows; story writing (experimental)", + "longDescription": "Reader-oriented planning, authoring, review, PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos with shared method support. A separate, experimental story family covers fiction in a story vault; its manuscripts follow the story's voice sheet, not the documentation rules.", "developerName": "Peter Hense", "category": "Developer Tools", "capabilities": [ diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9ec97b4..9de3e69 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ --- type: reference audience: Authors and maintainers familiar with their coding assistant and Git -version: 0.3.0 +version: 0.4.0 --- # Writing Method -Writing Method provides reader-oriented writing, documentation planning, review, local PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos for Claude, Codex and OpenCode. Install it on its own or alongside [Engineering Method](https://github.com/phense/engineering-method). Both bundle shared support from [Method Core](https://github.com/phense/method-core); no sibling checkout is needed at runtime. +Writing Method provides reader-oriented writing, documentation planning, review, local PDF delivery and narrated tutorial videos for Claude, Codex and OpenCode. A separate, experimental family of skills supports story writing; see [Story writing (experimental)](#story-writing-experimental). Install it on its own or alongside [Engineering Method](https://github.com/phense/engineering-method). Both bundle shared support from [Method Core](https://github.com/phense/method-core); no sibling checkout is needed at runtime. The three repositories remain under `phense`, share the `agent-methods` topic and have independent Issues and pull requests. Report a writing behavior here, an engineering behavior in Engineering Method, and shared adapter/state/playbook behavior in Method Core. @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ The three repositories remain under `phense`, share the `agent-methods` topic an | Explain and instruct | explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting | | Keep prose and documents consistent | human-prose-drafting, terminology-guard, visual-placeholders | | Script, produce and review narrated tutorial videos | tutorial-video-scripting, presentation-video-production, presentation-video-review | +| Write stories (experimental, separate family) | story-bootstrap, story-worldbuilding, story-characters, story-architecture, story-drafting, story-canon-review, story-voice-review, story-craft-research | | Shared support from Core | project-backlog, verification-before-completion, requesting-code-review, receiving-code-review, using-git-worktrees, dispatching-parallel-agents, playbook-authoring, playbook-review | Describe the outcome to your assistant. A small wording edit needs focused editing; a standalone document uses authoring and self-review; a coherent document set uses planning, authoring and review. PDF generation follows content review and offers two layouts: a single-sided one for short documents and a book layout with parts, mirrored pages and a running head for long manuals. A tutorial video is scripted, produced and reviewed in that order; see [Narrated tutorial videos](#narrated-tutorial-videos). Playbooks support concrete publication/export operations when their decisions or recovery needs warrant one; ordinary writing does not automatically create one. @@ -50,6 +51,52 @@ What the method enforces, from measurements of earlier videos: The video tools need Node with npm, `ffmpeg` and `ffprobe` in addition to Python. They are checked and named when missing, not installed. +## Story writing (experimental) + +The **story family** is a second set of skills, for fiction: long serials, light novels and short pieces. Think of two workbenches in one workshop. Documentation is built at one and stories at the other, and the tools of one bench are not carried to the other. The reason is that the two kinds of text want opposite things. A how-to guide should be plain, complete and predictable. A chapter may use fragments, repetition and withheld information on purpose. + +Each story lives in its own directory with its own Git repository, called a **story vault**. The vault holds the brief, the **voice sheet** (how this story's prose sounds: viewpoint, tense, distance, tone), the world and character notes, the plans and the manuscript. + +| Purpose | Skill | +|---|---| +| Start or resume a story vault | story-bootstrap | +| Build the world, its history and institutions | story-worldbuilding | +| Design characters and their voice cards | story-characters | +| Plan the whole story, arcs, volumes and chapters | story-architecture | +| Draft chapters, in-world documents and paratext | story-drafting | +| Check a chapter against the accepted canon | story-canon-review | +| Judge chapters against the voice sheet | story-voice-review | +| Study craft sources and existing works | story-craft-research | + +### Which rules apply to which text + +The rule set is chosen for each piece of text, not for the session or the subject. Talking about a story is still an ordinary reply. + +| Text | Mode | Governed by | +|---|---|---| +| Story prose, in-world text such as a letter or manual inside the story, afterword and blurb | manuscript | The story's voice sheet, then the story rules. Nothing from the documentation skills. | +| Any other note in a story vault or study vault: brief, world entry, chapter card, review, study note | working note | The story skills. Plain notes without the story's voice and without didactic structure. | +| Everything else: every reply to you, a vault's `README.md`, documentation, tutorial videos | reader-oriented | The rules of the sections above, unchanged | + +The full rule, including how a vault is recognized and when drafting is permitted, is in [writing mode](shared/policies/writing-mode.md). + +### Start a story + +1. Copy the vault starter `templates/story-vault/` from this plugin to a new directory outside the plugin. +2. Run `git init` in the new directory. +3. Open your assistant in that directory and ask it to start a story with your premise. + +The assistant marks the vault as a story, gives it a story ID and asks for the form (long or short) and the publication profile, which may stay unset. Check: the frontmatter of `00-project/brief.md` now reads `kind: story`. Drafting starts only after viewpoint, tense and distance are set in `00-project/voice.md`; until then the assistant leads you to a voice trial instead of writing a chapter. + +### Limits + +- **Routing is statistical.** The tests prove that names, exclusion sentences and links are in place. Whether an assistant then picks the right family for a request is a probability, not a guarantee. +- **Produced text is not measured.** No check reads a chapter for documentation habits, or a reply for a story's voice. +- **No story pilot exists.** The skills are structurally checked and have not been proven on a real story. Light-novel figures such as volume length are left unset, not asserted. +- **Host routing evaluations have not been run.** The routing cases for the story family ship under `evals/shared/triggers/`; no Claude or Codex result is claimed for them. + +The family originated in a private research workspace. That workspace's research notes and its studies of existing works are not part of this plugin. + ## Installation Prerequisites: a supported Claude or Codex CLI, Git, and Python 3.11 or newer for state tools. Clone this repository to a retained directory. These commands register the local checkout as a marketplace; run the pair for your host: @@ -66,7 +113,7 @@ claude plugin install writing-method@writing-method For a session-scoped Claude test use `claude --plugin-dir /absolute/path/to/writing-method`. For OpenCode, run `python3 scripts/install-opencode --check` from this checkout, inspect the proposed path, then repeat without `--check`. It installs an owned `writing-method.js` loader pointing to this retained directory. Gemini support is deferred until its adapter is verified. -Restart the assistant session after installation and inspect its plugin inventory for `writing-method` 0.3.0. An installed listing proves discovery; a live authoring request is separate behavior evidence. With both methods installed, use the invoking method's namespace for shared support, such as `writing-method:playbook-authoring`, and run one copy. +Restart the assistant session after installation and inspect its plugin inventory for `writing-method` 0.4.0. An installed listing proves discovery; a live authoring request is separate behavior evidence. With both methods installed, use the invoking method's namespace for shared support, such as `writing-method:playbook-authoring`, and run one copy. ## Project state and updates @@ -84,6 +131,6 @@ python3 scripts/validate-plugin python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -t . -v ``` -These checks cover installed-relative resources, source integrity, state behavior, isolated package use and OpenCode coexistence. PDF generation additionally needs the tools/fonts described by `documentation-pdf`; this plugin does not install them automatically. Video tests that need `ffmpeg` are skipped where it is absent; the timing, script-check and pronunciation logic is tested without it. A rendered sample video and a provider run are separate evidence, recorded in `docs/specs/WM-001-presentation-video/rehearsal.md`. Source tests and native plugin installation do not prove model routing, content quality or provider availability. No live Claude result is claimed during an outage. +These checks cover installed-relative resources, source integrity, state behavior, isolated package use and OpenCode coexistence. PDF generation additionally needs the tools/fonts described by `documentation-pdf`; this plugin does not install them automatically. Video tests that need `ffmpeg` are skipped where it is absent; the timing, script-check and pronunciation logic is tested without it. A rendered sample video and a provider run are separate evidence, recorded in `docs/specs/WM-001-presentation-video/rehearsal.md`. Source tests and native plugin installation do not prove model routing, content quality or provider availability. The story family is experimental; its limits are listed under [Story writing (experimental)](#limits). No live Claude result is claimed during an outage. Original code uses the [MIT License](LICENSE). Adapted Humanizer material is listed in [third-party notices](THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md); shared adaptations retain [Core notices](CORE_NOTICES.md). The project is independent of the named assistant providers. diff --git a/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md b/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md index 24d77c2..ceeddec 100644 --- a/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md +++ b/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md @@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ Copyright (c) 2026 Peter Hense. Original code is MIT licensed. Shared adapted fi `templates/openspec/escalation.md`: original when distributed. +## Story family + +The story family is original writing under the same MIT licence: the skills +under `skills/story-*/`, the files under `shared/story/`, the vault starter +under `templates/story-vault/` and `shared/policies/writing-mode.md`. + +Its craft guidance is informed by published sources on fiction craft and by +the maintainer's own analysis of existing works. `shared/story/sources.md` +indexes every cited source with its title, author or speaker, address and the +kind of evidence it gives. No third-party text is vendored: the sources are +attributed as influences, their wording is not reproduced, and the private +study notes are not distributed. The family therefore has no entry under +`sources` in `third-party/sources.lock.json`. + ## Humanizer Source ID: `humanizer` diff --git a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e95b276 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md @@ -0,0 +1,377 @@ +# Design: Story writing as a separate family in Writing Method + +## Stable work ID + +- Feature ID: `WM-003` (next free ID after WM-001 and WM-002; no GitHub Issue opened yet) +- Artifact path: `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md` +- Status: Accepted by the owner on 2026-11-13; implemented on branch `wm-003-story-family`. +- Source request: Integrate the long-form writing, tone and related skills of the + owner's private research workspace (called Worldbuilding below) into Writing + Method. The project targets long stories and light novels. Story writing must stay separate + from ordinary writing: session replies, documentation and presentations. +- Inputs: the Worldbuilding candidate 0.1.16 including its uncommitted changes as + read on 2026-11-13; Writing Method 0.3.0 at `29752ab`; three independent + read-only proposals; one adversarial review of draft 1 by three reviewers. + Draft 2 incorporates that review and has not been reviewed again. + +## Owner decisions of 2026-11-13 + +| Question | Decision | +|---|---| +| Structure | Family inside Writing Method. This supersedes the earlier decision for an independent plugin (`WB-001`; IDs starting with `WB-` name items in the private workspace's backlog). | +| Prefix | `story-`. Shared files live in `shared/story/`, the vault starter in `templates/story-vault/`. | +| Chapter storage | Prose in its own file for long-form work only. A short-form piece is one note in `06-manuscript/pieces/` with its prose under a `## Manuscript` heading. | +| Licence | The story skills, rules, study-derived references and vault starter are published under Writing Method's MIT licence. | +| Publication profile | No productive story work has started. The profile stays unset in the starter; light-novel conventions are researched before any figure is asserted. | +| Worldbuilding | Uncommitted changes committed and tagged `pre-wm-integration`; the port copies from that tagged commit. | + +Where the text below still presents these points as open, the table decides. + +## Terms + +| Term | Meaning | +|---|---| +| Story family | The skills, rules and templates for fiction. Every skill name starts with `story-`. | +| Reader family | Everything Writing Method does today: didactic replies, documentation, PDF, presentation videos. | +| Story vault | One story's own directory and Git repository: brief, voice sheet, canon, plans, manuscript. Marked `kind: story`. | +| Study vault | An analysis vault for an existing, third-party work. Marked `kind: study`. | +| Manuscript | Story prose and in-world text (a letter, report or manual that exists inside the story), plus afterword and blurb. | +| Working note | Any other vault file: brief, world entry, character note, arc, chapter card, canon review, study note. | +| Voice sheet | `00-project/voice.md` of a story vault. It overrides every method default for how that story's manuscript sounds. | +| Writing mode | Which rule set governs one piece of output: `manuscript`, `working-note` or `reader-oriented`. | + +## Findings that shape the design + +1. **Two plugins share one name.** The owner's private research workspace holds a + local, uninstalled plugin candidate also called `writing-method`. Loaded beside the published + plugin, two skill sets share one namespace. An earlier owner decision chose an + independent writing plugin (Worldbuilding `WB-001`, recorded in the earlier + research note); the current request supersedes it. +2. **The didactic rules reach ordinary replies through skill descriptions.** + `explaining-concepts`, `writing-procedures` and `empathic-troubleshooting` + say "in documentation or an ordinary reply". They are installed in every story + session whatever the packaging, so a separate fiction plugin would not shield + manuscript prose from them. +3. **No policy file is loaded before a skill is chosen on Claude or Codex.** Only + descriptions are always in context. On OpenCode the loader injects the platform + adapter, which points to `lifecycle-selection.md`. The validator checks + description syntax and the skill inventory; it does not check description + content, families or the handoff graph. Those live in writing-owned tests. +4. **Documentation voice is wrong for fiction.** `human-prose-drafting` removes + fragments, repetition, humour and asides. `fiction-drafting` (ported as + `story-drafting`) preserves them. +5. **"Continuity" is taken.** Method Core uses it for session recovery. The + story skill `continuity-review` means story canon. +6. **OpenCode has a flat skill namespace.** Bare names such as `worldbuilding` + can collide. +7. **One chapter note mixes three kinds of text.** The vault template's chapter + note holds card, manuscript and review under separate headings. A file path + alone cannot say which rules apply. +8. **Study vaults are built from the story starter.** They would be mistaken for + story vaults by any marker that only looks for brief and voice sheet. +9. **No story exists yet, and nothing in Worldbuilding covers light novels.** The + seven skills are drafts without a pilot (`WB-006` waits for a premise). A search + for light novel, volume or illustration finds nothing; the method is built for + web serials. +10. **Parts of the method are private or machine-specific.** The research corpus + and study vaults are private working material. Two skill references are + derived from a studied third-party work and link to private notes. The + retrieval contract describes a private memory service on one machine. + Worldbuilding has no licence decision and is not published. + +## Decision + +Fiction becomes a **separate family inside the Writing Method plugin**, kept apart +by the layers below. Worldbuilding stops being a plugin and remains the owner's +private research and study workspace. + +| Alternative | Why not | +|---|---| +| Third plugin that vendors Method Core | Does not stop the didactic rules (finding 2). Costs a third lock, repository and release line and a third copy of the eight shared skills in OpenCode. Core's tooling is identity-driven and would allow it; only its documentation names two consumers. Advantage: a hard off-switch. Kept as the fallback. | +| Keep Worldbuilding as the plugin, renamed | The above, plus an unpublished repository, no licence, a validator needing PyYAML, private study vaults beside the plugin root. | +| A fiction mode inside existing skills | The rule sets contradict each other (finding 4). | + +**Fallback criterion.** On the named cross-family routing cases, the harness +reports `prohibited_skill_invoked` or `unexpected_selection`. If any such case +still fails on Claude or Codex in more than one of five runs after two rounds of +fixes, extract the family into its own plugin. The layout keeps that mechanical. + +## Separation model + +### Mode belongs to the output, not to the session + +| Order | Condition | Mode | Governed by | +|---|---|---|---| +| 1 | The file is a reader-facing vault file: `README`, `START.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md` | `reader-oriented` | Today's rules | +| 2 | The text is story prose, in-world text, afterword or blurb: it goes into a prose file of a `kind: story` vault, or the author explicitly asks for story prose | `manuscript` | The voice sheet, then `shared/story/rules.md`. Nothing from the reader family. | +| 3 | The text is another file of a story or study vault, or a research note | `working-note` | The story skills. Plain notes: neither the voice sheet nor didactic structure. | +| 4 | Everything else, including every reply to the author | `reader-oriented` | Today's rules, unchanged | + +The subject never sets the mode. Talking about a story is still a reply. + +### Storage decision that makes the mode decidable + +Manuscript prose gets its own file: `06-manuscript/chapters/.md` holds prose +only. The chapter card, summary, canon delta and review move to a card note in +`05-plot/chapters/`. Afterword and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/`. A path then +decides between manuscript and working note, and a later export reads prose files +without extraction. This changes the vault template. The owner decided it for +long-form work; the alternative, manuscript as the text under a `## Manuscript` +heading, is kept for short-form pieces only: one note per piece in +`06-manuscript/pieces/`, prose under `## Manuscript`. + +### Where the rule is actually read + +A policy file nobody loads protects nothing. The operative sentences therefore sit +in three places, and `shared/policies/writing-mode.md` is the authority they are +tested against: + +| Carrier | Content | +|---|---| +| Opening lines of every `story-*` skill body | First step: find the nearest ancestor of the target file that is a `kind: story` (or `kind: study`) vault. For manuscript text the voice sheet overrides `explaining-concepts`, `writing-procedures`, `empathic-troubleshooting` and `human-prose-drafting`, even when those are loaded. | +| Opening lines of those four reader skill bodies, plus their descriptions | Not for story manuscripts or in-world text; when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family. | +| Vault `AGENTS.md` (authority) and `CLAUDE.md` (adapter) | The mode rule in three sentences. `story-bootstrap` writes or refreshes both when it creates or resumes a vault. | + +`writing-mode.md` is a neutral hub: both families link it directly, and it links +into neither. + +### Layers and what each one proves + +| Layer | What it does | Test proves | +|---|---|---| +| 1. Names | `story-` prefix; no name equals a Core, Writing or Engineering skill name or contains `continuity` | The names are as stated | +| 2. Descriptions and opening lines | Reciprocal exclusions and the precedence clause | The sentences are present and match the policy block. Whether a model follows them is statistical. | +| 3. Link firewall | Fiction skills link only into `shared/story/`, `templates/story-vault/`, other story skills, `writing-mode.md`, `proportionality.md` and `verification-before-completion`. Reader skills never link into the fiction directories. Backticked skill names are checked against the family map too. | A skill cannot pull the other family's rule files in through links | +| 4. No lifecycle graph | No `story-` name appears in `lifecycle-handoffs.md`. The story family is orchestrated only by `shared/story/story-development.md`, whose passes overlap and return; it is not a linear lifecycle. | The graph contains no fiction node | +| 5. Vault kind | A story vault is the nearest ancestor holding `00-project/brief.md` and `voice.md` with `kind: story` and a set `story_id` in the frontmatter. `kind: starter` and `kind: study` never authorise drafting. Drafting additionally needs viewpoint, tense and distance filled in the voice sheet; otherwise the work routes to the voice trial. | The template and the skills state and apply the rule | + +Four layers have deterministic presence tests. That is weaker than saying the +separation is deterministic. + +### Limits stated plainly + +- **Both rule sets can sit in one context.** The author asks why the magic cost + works, `explaining-concepts` loads, and the next request is "draft chapter 12". + No link rule prevents that. The precedence clause addresses it; where the host + allows, `story-drafting` drafts from the chapter context packet in a fresh + sub-agent or session. +- **The harness reads skill selection, not text.** It runs one turn and stops + before writing. Whether a chapter opens with an analogy, or a reply drifts into + a story's voice, is unmeasured. An output-level check needs a change to Method + Core's harness. Until it exists and passes, the family keeps the experimental + label. +- **Core skills cannot be edited here.** `receiving-code-review` claims + "unverified review feedback", which matches beta-reader comments. If routing + runs show a Core description capturing story work, the fix belongs in Method + Core. + +### Mixed situations + +| Situation | Disposition | +|---|---| +| A reply that discusses plot, characters or craft | `reader-oriented` | +| A reply that contains a draft passage | The passage goes into a prose file or a fenced block and is `manuscript`; the surrounding reply never restyles it | +| A draft passage requested outside any vault | `manuscript` with the method defaults; the reply states that no voice sheet applies | +| Documentation about the fiction method; a vault README | `documentation-authoring` | +| An in-world document, including an in-world how-to manual | `manuscript` under `story-drafting` | +| A story excerpt quoted in documentation | Quoted material, unchanged | +| An explanatory narrated video about a story or its world | `tutorial-video-scripting` | +| Dramatised fiction: audiobook, narrated story video | Outside the method for now | +| Beta-reader or author feedback on a chapter | `story-canon-review` or `story-voice-review`; not `receiving-code-review` | +| Notes and craft exercises in a study vault | `working-note` under `story-craft-research`; never drafting against the studied work's canon | + +### Completion in the story family + +A chapter is complete when a canon review exists at the named revision and the +author's acceptance is recorded. That is an author decision, not a command result, +so no story skill hands off to a pass claim. `verification-before-completion` +applies only to checks that have a command: links, template integrity, an export. +Story vaults get no backlog; state lives in `development.md` and `decisions.md`. + +## What WM-003 delivers + +### Part A: separation and port + +| New name | Origin | Change | +|---|---|---| +| `story-bootstrap` | `story-bootstrap` | Sets `kind` and `story_id`; asks the publication profile; writes the vault instruction files | +| `story-worldbuilding` | `worldbuilding` | Rename | +| `story-characters` | `character-design` | Rename; voice fields move to the character voice card | +| `story-architecture` | `serial-architecture` | Rename; reads the publication profile; rule #1 stays the first structural check | +| `story-drafting` | `fiction-drafting` | Rename; names in-world documents; carries the precedence clause | +| `story-canon-review` | `continuity-review` | Rename (finding 5) | +| `story-craft-research` | `craft-research` | Rename; the research workspace path becomes a setting of the workspace, not a link | + +All get quoted descriptions (the validator rejects the current unquoted ones). + +Port table for the files that are not skills: + +| File | Disposition | +|---|---| +| `shared/rules.md`, `workflow.md`, `story-development.md` | Ship in `shared/story/`; links re-pointed; rule #1 attributed as "maintainer requirement" (decision 8) | +| `shared/rag.md` | Split. The plugin ships a provider-neutral, optional retrieval contract as `shared/story/retrieval.md`: the vault is the authority, retrieval is advisory, scope is the vault's Git root, skip when no memory tool exists. The provider-specific details of a private memory service stay in the private workspace. | +| `references/science-and-institutions.md`, `serial-scene-review.md`, `sequential-fiction-study.md` | Ship; links into `research/` removed; the study path becomes a parameter | +| `references/story-and-prose-quality.md`, `action-sequences.md` | Ship with a one-line provenance statement that does not name the studied works or their authors (owner decision of 2026-11-13); links to private transfer notes replaced by an entry in the source index | +| `research/SOURCES.md` and source cards | Stay private. The plugin ships `shared/story/sources.md`, a compact index of the cited IDs, and a blank source-card template | +| `templates/story-vault/` | Ships as `templates/story-vault/` with the storage change, the `kind` marker, `AGENTS.md`, and conditional retrieval lines | + +### Part B: voice and tone + +Most of this already exists and is extended, not duplicated: guided-development +pass E is the voice trial with two treatments of one beat, and `story-bootstrap` +sets the basic voice fields. + +- **Voice sheet template.** New sections: narration contract per viewpoint; tone + palette (baseline, permitted excursions and their return, tones the reader + promise excludes); language conventions for the prose language; two to four + anchor passages; deliberate exceptions; + paratext register; change log. A sheet change is a recorded author decision. + Chapters keep the sheet revision they were accepted under. +- **Anchor passages.** The passages the author chose in the voice trial are the + first anchors. They are voice references, not canon or manuscript, and are + referenced by voice trial record and revision. Accepted chapter passages, + referenced by chapter ID and revision, replace or supplement them later. +- **Character voice cards.** Register, habitual attention, expertise vocabulary + and limits per speaking character, with a cap on verbal tics. +- **One new skill, `story-voice-review`.** It judges a chapter or range against + the sheet and never edits accepted prose. A finding cites a passage and either + a sheet or card clause, or a named default from `story-drafting`, labelled + "method default, not sheet". Findings are classed as unintended deviation, + deliberate exception, sheet gap or candidate for changing the sheet. Without + two anchor passages and a filled tone palette the skill declines and routes to + the voice trial, which records the chosen trial passages as anchors and so + satisfies the rule before any chapter is accepted. + +Tone for documents stays in `human-prose-drafting`. There is no shared tone skill. + +### Part C: light-novel foundations + +- **Research first.** A `story-craft-research` task produces source cards on + light-novel conventions: volume length, chapter length, illustration count and + placement, prologue and afterword, serialisation cadence. Nothing is asserted + from memory. +- **Publication profile.** A field in the brief: web serial, light-novel volumes + or both. `story-architecture` reads it. Volume becomes a planning unit beside + the arc; an arc may span volumes. About 100 chapters per sub-arc stays the + default for the web-serial profile only. +- **Volume template** and a light-novel reference, written from the source cards. + +### Deferred, each with its gate + +| Candidate | Gate | +|---|---| +| `story-revision` (ordered passes over a range) | The three-chapter pilot shows the pass order holds | +| `story-manuscript-export` (EPUB or PDF per volume) | A decision on a neutral typesetting directory shared with `documentation-pdf`, or duplicated templates | +| Illustration briefs | Light-novel source cards exist | + +## Changes to the existing reader family + +- `lifecycle-selection.md` and `reader-oriented-output.md`: link the mode policy + and exclude manuscript text. `writing-depth.md`: one sentence; the scale table + does not apply to manuscripts. +- `explaining-concepts`, `writing-procedures`, `empathic-troubleshooting`, + `human-prose-drafting`: exclusion in the description and the opening lines. +- `documentation-authoring`, `documentation-review`, `terminology-guard`, + `tutorial-video-scripting`: exclusion in the description. +- `third-party/sources.lock.json`: new hash for the adapted + `human-prose-drafting`; the original-implementation path list gains the + fiction paths; a decision whether craft sources become lock entries or prose + attribution. `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md` follows. +- `method.json`, both plugin manifests (name, version, description, keywords must + stay identical), the Codex interface fields, both marketplace files, README, + usage guide. +- The experimental label lives in README, the usage guide, the story skill + bodies and the policy block. `FEATURES.md` cannot carry it: its status model + has no such value and the file is still a placeholder; that is a separate fix. + +The didactic default for replies stays, including inside a story vault. + +## Verification + +| Check | Kind | +|---|---| +| `tests/test_writing_mode.py`: family map, prefix, opening sentences against the policy block, link firewall incl. backticked names, hub has no outbound family links, no fiction node in the graph, vault kind rule, links resolve and no host syntax in `shared/story/` | Deterministic | +| Vault starter: wiki-links resolve, frontmatter valid, both instruction files present (ported from Worldbuilding's validator) | Deterministic | +| Package: no link or path into `research/` or `external/`, no study-vault path, no absolute user path | Deterministic | +| Existing nine routing cases unchanged | Regression | +| Routing cases, fiction-positive, each with a named primary and the reader skills plus `requesting-code-review`, `receiving-code-review` and `project-backlog` prohibited: draft a chapter; start a story in a starter vault (`story-bootstrap`); canon review; voice review; in-world how-to manual; beta-reader feedback | Paid host evals, Claude and Codex, five runs each | +| Routing cases, negative, each with all `story-*` prohibited: vault README; release note in a documentation repository; tutorial video about a story's world; documentation of the fiction method; drafting request inside a study vault; session rooted in the parent of a vault | Same | +| Not measurable today, blocked on a Method Core harness change: a reply inside a vault; two-turn leakage in both directions; voice review against two opposite sheets | Recorded as open | +| OpenCode: new names discovered without collision | Manual, discovery only | +| Worldbuilding `WB-008`: all skills exercised with realistic prompts | Gate before release | + +Routing cases are added to `evals/shared/triggers/`, both `expected.json` files +and `tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json`. + +## Migration + +1. Owner: commit or park the uncommitted Worldbuilding changes, back the + repository up, tag the commit. The port copies from that commit. +2. Owner decisions 1 to 5 below. Then open the `WM-003` issue and write spec, + plan and tasks beside this design. +3. Inventory every file that names an old skill or the launcher: the + instruction files, README, feature list and compatibility note of the private + workspace, the vault template's `CLAUDE.md`, and the instruction file inside + each study repository. +4. Write the failing tests and the mode policy. +5. Add the reader-side exclusions and update the provenance lock. +6. Port per the tables above; change the vault template. +7. Part B, then the Part C research task, then the profile, volume template and + reference. +8. Add the routing cases; run the local gate, then the host evals; run `WB-008`. +9. **Rollback point.** No plugin behaviour has changed on `main`; Worldbuilding + has only the step-1 commit and tag. Rolling back means deleting the branch and + closing the issue as not planned. +10. Merge and release Writing Method 0.4.0, story family labelled experimental. +11. Retire the plugin identity in Worldbuilding: remove manifests and the method + copies (`skills/`, `shared/`, `templates/story-vault/`), reduce `validate.py` + to the research checks, update the files from step 3. Keep the launcher as a + thin wrapper until one study has been resumed against the installed plugin. + Study repositories are changed and reverted one by one. +12. Re-save the method's memory derivatives under their existing IDs with the new + source paths and hashes, or mark them superseded (open decision 6). + +## Risks + +| Risk | Mitigation | +|---|---| +| A host picks the wrong family | Opening-line precedence, firewall, vault kind; bidirectional cases; fallback criterion | +| Both rule sets in one context across turns | Precedence clause; fresh context for drafting where possible; stated limit | +| Leakage in produced text is unmeasured | Experimental label until the Core check exists | +| Voice and light-novel rules designed without a story | Structurally validated only; revised after the pilot; light-novel figures are overridable defaults backed by source cards | +| The voice review becomes a generic AI-tell filter | No style list; clause or named default required; refusal on thin sheets | +| Private or study-derived material enters the public package | Port table; package test; licence decision covers study-derived guidance | +| Work in the private workspace is lost | Step 1 is a precondition; copy until step 11 | +| The template change breaks existing study vaults | Study vaults keep their layout; only new story vaults use the split | +| 29 descriptions reduce trigger precision for documentation | Existing cases as regression gate | + +## Open decisions for the owner + +Points 1 to 5 are settled by the Owner decisions table above and point 8 by the +implementation. Points 6, 7, 9 and 10 remain open. + +1. **Confirm the structure.** The request to integrate supersedes the earlier + decision for an independent plugin (`WB-001`). Recommended: family inside + Writing Method, with the fallback criterion. **Decided:** family inside + Writing Method. +2. **Prefix.** `fiction-` (recommended in the draft: `fiction-drafting` keeps its + name, and it fits the research skill) or `story-`. **Decided:** `story-`. +3. **Chapter storage.** Prose in its own file (recommended) or a heading inside + the chapter note. **Decided:** own file for long-form work; a short-form piece + in `06-manuscript/pieces/` keeps its prose under `## Manuscript`. +4. **Licence.** May the story skills, rules, study-derived references and vault + starter be published under Writing Method's MIT licence? **Decided:** yes. +5. **Publication profile of the first story.** Web serial, light-novel volumes or + both. It sets how much of Part C is needed now. **Decided:** the profile stays + unset in the starter; light-novel conventions are researched before any + figure is asserted. +6. **Memory derivatives.** Which repository is their source after the port. + Open. +7. **Output-level leakage check.** Fund the harness change in Method Core. Open. +8. **Rule #1 attribution in a public plugin.** Keep the dated personal + attribution, or "maintainer requirement". **Implemented:** "maintainer + requirement". +9. **Timing.** Release before a pilot, labelled experimental (assumed), or wait + for a first premise. Open. +10. **Replies inside a story vault.** Keep the full didactic default (assumed) or + a lighter editorial register for story discussion. Open. diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md index 85670fe..61dcb5b 100644 --- a/docs/usage.md +++ b/docs/usage.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- type: reference audience: Authors using Writing Method -version: 0.3.0 +version: 0.4.0 --- # Writing examples @@ -109,3 +109,36 @@ runs voicing again: one request is sent, because every other line is reused. The timeline moves all later lines by itself. The stills of that scene, the render and the measurement are repeated, and the review checks the changed scene. + +## Draft a chapter in a story vault + +The story family is experimental. It applies inside a story vault: a directory +copied from `templates/story-vault/` whose `00-project/brief.md` reads +`kind: story`. + +> Draft chapter 12 from its chapter card. + +`story-drafting` first checks the vault: the kind must be `story`, and +viewpoint, tense and distance must be set in `00-project/voice.md`. It then +reads the chapter card in `05-plot/chapters/` and writes prose only, into +`06-manuscript/chapters/`. The voice sheet decides how the prose sounds. +`explaining-concepts`, `writing-procedures`, `empathic-troubleshooting` and +`human-prose-drafting` do not apply to it: a chapter gets no analogy, no +numbered steps and no smoothing of deliberate fragments. If one of the three +voice fields is still `unset`, no chapter is drafted and you are led to a +voice trial first. The chapter is complete when `story-canon-review` has +reviewed it at a named revision and you have accepted it; your acceptance is a +decision, not a command result. + +## Ask a question inside a story vault + +> Why does chapter 11 feel slow, and what should I look at first? + +This is a reply to you, so it stays an ordinary reader-oriented reply even +though the session is inside a story vault and the subject is the story. The +answer explains plainly, names what to check first and does not imitate the +story's voice. The voice sheet styles manuscript files only. If the reply +contains a draft passage, the passage stands apart in a fenced block or a +prose file and follows the voice sheet, and the text around it does not. The +rule for each kind of text is in +[writing mode](../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). diff --git a/evals/claude/expected.json b/evals/claude/expected.json index f0bc184..ee29e33 100644 --- a/evals/claude/expected.json +++ b/evals/claude/expected.json @@ -171,5 +171,231 @@ "artifacts": [ "decision.md" ] + }, + "story-chapter-draft": { + "primary": "story-drafting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-new-vault": { + "primary": "story-bootstrap", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-canon-review": { + "primary": "story-canon-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-voice-review": { + "primary": "story-voice-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-in-world-manual": { + "primary": "story-drafting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-beta-feedback": { + "primary": "story-canon-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-vault-readme": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "docs-release-note": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-world-tutorial-video": { + "primary": "tutorial-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-method-documentation": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "study-vault-draft-request": { + "primary": "story-craft-research", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-drafting", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "vault-parent-session": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] } } diff --git a/evals/codex/expected.json b/evals/codex/expected.json index f0bc184..ee29e33 100644 --- a/evals/codex/expected.json +++ b/evals/codex/expected.json @@ -171,5 +171,231 @@ "artifacts": [ "decision.md" ] + }, + "story-chapter-draft": { + "primary": "story-drafting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-new-vault": { + "primary": "story-bootstrap", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-canon-review": { + "primary": "story-canon-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-voice-review": { + "primary": "story-voice-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-in-world-manual": { + "primary": "story-drafting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-beta-feedback": { + "primary": "story-canon-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-vault-readme": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "docs-release-note": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-world-tutorial-video": { + "primary": "tutorial-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-method-documentation": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "study-vault-draft-request": { + "primary": "story-craft-research", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-drafting", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "vault-parent-session": { + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] } } diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/docs-release-note.json b/evals/shared/triggers/docs-release-note.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..997d190 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/docs-release-note.json @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +{ + "id": "docs-release-note", + "prompt": "Write the release note for Keyforge 2.4 as docs/releases/2.4.md, for administrators, from CHANGELOG.md. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not draft the release note.", + "files": { + "README.md": "# Keyforge documentation\n\nRelease notes live under docs/releases/, one file per version, written for administrators.\n", + "CHANGELOG.md": "# Changelog\n\n## 2.4\n\n- Added: key rotation history, shown as a timeline that tells the story of each key.\n- Changed: revoked keys stop working within one minute.\n- Fixed: the export dialog kept the previous file name.\n", + "docs/releases/2.3.md": "# Keyforge 2.3\n\nAdministrators can now label API keys. Existing keys keep working.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-beta-feedback.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-beta-feedback.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f300be7 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-beta-feedback.json @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +{ + "id": "story-beta-feedback", + "prompt": "A beta reader sent comments on chapter 11 in feedback/beta-ch-011.md. They say the chapter contradicts earlier chapters. Work through the comments. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not change the chapter or the canon files.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md": "Oren caught the falling ledger with both hands. The Ash Court letter lay under it, sealed in red.\n", + "feedback/beta-ch-011.md": "# Beta reader comments, chapter 11\n\n1. Oren catches the ledger with both hands. Didn't he lose a hand in chapter 2?\n2. The Ash Court seal is red here. I remember black wax in chapter 4.\n3. I liked the gate scene.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-canon-review.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-canon-review.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6feadd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-canon-review.json @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +{ + "id": "story-canon-review", + "prompt": "Chapter 12 is drafted at revision r3 in 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md. Check it against the accepted canon before I accept it. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write review findings and do not edit the chapter.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md": "---\nid: ch-012\nstory_id: ember-road\ntype: chapter\ncanon_status: proposed\nchapter_number: 12\narc_id: arc-01\npov_id: sena\ndraft_status: planned\n---\n# Chapter 12 card\n\nProse file: 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md\n\n## Context packet\n\n- Voice sheet revision: V1\n- State: Sena carries the sealed letter for the Ash Court; Oren knows the seal is forged.\n\n## Beats\n\n1. Sena reaches the Brine Gate at dusk, but the gate ledger already lists her as arrived.\n2. Therefore she enters by the tannery stair and meets Oren.\n3. But Oren hands the letter back unopened.\n\n## Canon delta\n\nNone accepted yet.\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md": "The Brine Gate had closed its ledger before Sena reached it. She read her own name there, entered in a hand that was not hers, and went round by the tannery stair.\n\nOren was waiting where the vats ended. He held out the letter, seal unbroken, and she saw that the wax was the wrong red.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c07d7b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +{ + "id": "story-chapter-draft", + "prompt": "Draft chapter 12 of this story from its chapter card 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md into 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write any chapter prose.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md": "---\nid: ch-012\nstory_id: ember-road\ntype: chapter\ncanon_status: proposed\nchapter_number: 12\narc_id: arc-01\npov_id: sena\ndraft_status: planned\n---\n# Chapter 12 card\n\nProse file: 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md\n\n## Context packet\n\n- Voice sheet revision: V1\n- State: Sena carries the sealed letter for the Ash Court; Oren knows the seal is forged.\n\n## Beats\n\n1. Sena reaches the Brine Gate at dusk, but the gate ledger already lists her as arrived.\n2. Therefore she enters by the tannery stair and meets Oren.\n3. But Oren hands the letter back unopened.\n\n## Canon delta\n\nNone accepted yet.\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-in-world-manual.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-in-world-manual.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84afa68 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-in-world-manual.json @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +{ + "id": "story-in-world-manual", + "prompt": "In chapter 7 the guild hands Sena its apprentice field manual, 'How to cross a salt flat at night'. Write that manual as it exists inside the story: numbered instructions in the guild's own words, quoted in full in 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-007.md. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write the manual text.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-007.md": "The warden slid a stitched booklet across the ledger desk. \"Read it before dusk,\" he said. \"All of it.\"\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-method-documentation.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-method-documentation.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7fa0fc --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-method-documentation.json @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +{ + "id": "story-method-documentation", + "prompt": "Write a how-to guide, docs/how-to/start-a-story-vault.md, that shows a new author of our writing group how to set up a story vault from the starter and fill in the brief and the voice sheet. One reader group; no other documentation exists yet. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not draft the guide.", + "files": { + "README.md": "# Writers' handbook\n\nGuides for the members of our writing group. Each member keeps one story vault per story, copied from the story vault starter. A vault is marked by 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-new-vault.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-new-vault.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57ec390 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-new-vault.json @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +{ + "id": "story-new-vault", + "prompt": "I want to start a new story in this vault: a long serial about a courier guild that crosses a salt desert. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not change the vault files and do not write story text.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `starter`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Story vault\n\nUnused starter. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: starter\nstory_id: unset\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: unset\n---\n# Story brief\n\nPremise: not decided.\n\nReader promise: not decided.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: starter\nstory_id: unset\nvoice_revision: V0\nviewpoint: unset\ntense: unset\ndistance: unset\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nNot decided.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nNot decided.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\nNone.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nNo pass started.\n", + "00-project/decisions.md": "# Author decisions\n\nNone recorded.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-vault-readme.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-vault-readme.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f081bab --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-vault-readme.json @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +{ + "id": "story-vault-readme", + "prompt": "Write README.md for this repository. A co-author who clones it should learn what each folder contains and how to open the vault. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not draft the README.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-voice-review.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-voice-review.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c813ebc --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-voice-review.json @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +{ + "id": "story-voice-review", + "prompt": "Chapters 10 to 12 feel off to me. Check whether they still sound like the voice sheet in 00-project/voice.md. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write findings and do not edit any prose.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried. Permitted excursion: gallows humour under physical danger, returning to baseline by the end of the scene. Excluded: slapstick, narrator sentimentality.\n\n## Language conventions\n\nBritish spelling. Guild ranks are lower-case. No modern idiom in dialogue.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing, from \"The salt sang under her boots\" to the scene break.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument with Oren, whole scene.\n\n## Deliberate exceptions\n\nch-009 uses present tense for the fever dream.\n\n## Change log\n\n- V1 accepted by the author after the voice trial.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md": "Sena counted the water skins twice. Two were short, and nobody on the wall would meet her eye.\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md": "OMG, thought Sena, this desert is literally the worst. She was super done with salt.\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md": "The Brine Gate had closed its ledger before Sena reached it. She read her own name there, entered in a hand that was not hers, and went round by the tannery stair.\n\nOren was waiting where the vats ended. He held out the letter, seal unbroken, and she saw that the wax was the wrong red.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-world-tutorial-video.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-world-tutorial-video.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..617cccf --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-world-tutorial-video.json @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +{ + "id": "story-world-tutorial-video", + "prompt": "Create a narrated explainer video for new readers of Ember Road that explains how the ranks of the salt-road courier guild work. The source is 01-world/overview.md. Assess the workflow, load its instructions, and record decision.md; do not write the script yet.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/study-vault-draft-request.json b/evals/shared/triggers/study-vault-draft-request.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bb7cd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/study-vault-draft-request.json @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +{ + "id": "study-vault-draft-request", + "prompt": "Draft a new chapter 13 that continues this novel's plot after chapter 12, in the author's voice. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write any chapter prose.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `study`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Study: The Glass Orchard\n\nAnalysis vault for an existing novel by another author. It holds study notes only.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: study\nstory_id: study-glass-orchard\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: unset\n---\n# Study brief\n\nWork studied: The Glass Orchard, a published novel by another author. Purpose: learn how its chapter endings create pull. This vault holds analysis, not canon of our own.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: study\nstory_id: study-glass-orchard\nvoice_revision: V0\nviewpoint: unset\ntense: unset\ndistance: unset\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nNot decided.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nNot decided.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\nNone.\n", + "05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md": "# Chapter 12, study note\n\nEnds on the orchard gate standing open. Hook type: unanswered physical change.\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/vault-parent-session.json b/evals/shared/triggers/vault-parent-session.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a24b0b --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/vault-parent-session.json @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +{ + "id": "vault-parent-session", + "prompt": "Write README.md for this workspace directory. It holds several story vaults and shared notes; a collaborator should learn the layout and where to start. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not draft the README.", + "files": { + "notes/ideas.md": "# Ideas\n\nLoose premises that are not stories yet.\n", + "stories/ember-road/AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "stories/ember-road/CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "stories/ember-road/START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "stories/ember-road/00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "stories/ember-road/00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "stories/ember-road/00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "stories/ember-road/01-world/overview.md": "# World overview\n\nThe salt-road courier guild has three ranks. A runner carries unsealed post inside one city. A courier carries sealed letters between cities and may refuse a commission. A warden keeps a gate ledger and settles disputes between couriers and clients.\n", + "stories/ember-road/07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "stories/ember-road/06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "stories/tin-harbour/00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: tin-harbour\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: unset\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA harbour town sells its tide.\n", + "stories/tin-harbour/00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: tin-harbour\nvoice_revision: V0\nviewpoint: unset\ntense: unset\ndistance: unset\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nNot decided.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nNot decided.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\nNone.\n" + } +} diff --git a/method.json b/method.json index e6bf902..93b6039 100644 --- a/method.json +++ b/method.json @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ { "schema_version": 1, "name": "writing-method", - "version": "0.3.0", + "version": "0.4.0", "method_skills": [ "documentation-authoring", "documentation-pdf", @@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ "human-prose-drafting", "presentation-video-production", "presentation-video-review", + "story-architecture", + "story-bootstrap", + "story-canon-review", + "story-characters", + "story-craft-research", + "story-drafting", + "story-voice-review", + "story-worldbuilding", "terminology-guard", "tutorial-video-scripting", "visual-placeholders", diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml index 7f65bf8..1d13219 100644 --- a/pyproject.toml +++ b/pyproject.toml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ [project] name = "writing-method" -version = "0.3.0" +version = "0.4.0" description = "Shared method support." requires-python = ">=3.11" license = { text = "MIT" } diff --git a/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md b/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md index 0e8ab4b..54b1093 100644 --- a/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md +++ b/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ # Writing lifecycle selection +Check the [writing mode](writing-mode.md) first. Manuscript text and the +working notes of a story or study vault (world, cast, arcs, canon, reviews) go +to the story family that policy describes; nothing below selects a skill inside +that family. Everything else uses the lifecycles below, including a reply about +a story, a vault's README, and documentation or a tutorial video about a story, +its world or the story method. + Decide scale using [writing depth](writing-depth.md). Use documentation-authoring for one standalone document and documentation-planning for a coherent set. Continue existing docs/writing work from its recorded phase. PDF delivery follows diff --git a/shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md b/shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md index 2e34456..2129c4c 100644 --- a/shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md +++ b/shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ asked for terse expert output or the text is machine-consumed. | Explaining why or how something works to someone who does not already know it | `explaining-concepts`: an everyday analogy before the mechanism, no undefined jargon, one idea per sentence, the analogy's limits stated | A textbook-length detour; an analogy for a term the reader already uses correctly | | Telling the reader what to do next: install, configure, run, click, review | `writing-procedures`: numbered imperative steps, one action each, exact locations named, three to five steps per block, a visible result to confirm success | Passive descriptions of where something happens; a wall of twelve unnumbered steps | | Helping with something that went wrong or might go wrong | `empathic-troubleshooting`: start from what the reader sees, name the likely cause, give the first check, then the fix, in order of probability and cost | A table of error codes without the reader's symptom; blame or hedging language | +| Story prose or in-world text for a manuscript | Nothing from this policy: the story family governs it under [writing mode](writing-mode.md) | An analogy, numbered steps or symptom-first order imposed on manuscript text | | A pass, fix, or completion claim | `verification-before-completion` | Reader-oriented tone replacing evidence | The curse-of-knowledge filter in @@ -32,4 +33,7 @@ not share. term the reader used. - The reader's language decides the reply language; repository artifacts stay in the project's documented language. +- Manuscript prose and in-world text are excluded. The + [writing mode](writing-mode.md) policy decides when text is manuscript; a + reply about a story, also inside a story vault, stays under this policy. - Host adapters may point to this policy; they do not add host syntax to it. diff --git a/shared/policies/writing-depth.md b/shared/policies/writing-depth.md index 528fd4e..d174b84 100644 --- a/shared/policies/writing-depth.md +++ b/shared/policies/writing-depth.md @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Estimate from the request and existing material, then confirm by inspecting the target repository or document tree read-only. Record the chosen scale and its evidence in the owning artifact or, for small work, in the reply. +The scale table does not apply to story manuscripts; the +[writing mode](writing-mode.md) policy sends them to the story family. + | Observable conditions (any one moves the work to that scale) | Scale | Writing lifecycle | |---|---|---| | One sentence, paragraph, or section inside an existing text; wording, correctness or a single explanation; no new document structure; no new terms that other pages must share | Small | Native focused edit; the reader-oriented rules apply inline | diff --git a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b2363b --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +# Writing Mode + +Status: experimental. This policy separates two families of skills in one +plugin and decides which rule set governs one piece of output. It makes no +quality claim for either family and rests on no pilot evidence. + +- The **story family** covers fiction: every skill whose name starts with + `story-`, the files under `shared/story/` and the vault starter under + `templates/story-vault/`. +- The **reader family** covers everything else this method writes: didactic + replies, documentation, PDF delivery and presentation videos. + +This file is the neutral hub and the authority for the mode rule. Both families +refer to it; it links into neither. The operative sentences that skills and +vault files carry are stored in the policy block at the end and are tested +against it. + +## Terms + +| Term | Meaning | +|---|---| +| Story vault | One story's own directory: brief, voice sheet, canon, plans and manuscript. Marked `kind: story`. | +| Study vault | An analysis vault for an existing work by someone else. Marked `kind: study`. | +| Starter | The unchanged vault template. Marked `kind: starter`. Nothing is drafted in it. | +| Manuscript | Story prose and in-world text (a letter, report or manual that exists inside the story), plus paratext: afterword, author note and blurb. | +| Working note | Any other vault file that is neither a reader-facing vault file nor a reader-facing deliverable: brief, world entry, character note, arc, chapter card, canon review, study note. | +| Voice sheet | `00-project/voice.md` of a story vault. It overrides every method default for how that story's manuscript sounds. | +| Writing mode | The rule set that governs one piece of output: `manuscript`, `working-note` or `reader-oriented`. | + +## Mode decision + +The mode belongs to the output, not to the session. Test the conditions in +order and stop at the first that holds. + +| Order | Condition | Mode | Governed by | +|---|---|---|---| +| 1 | The file is a reader-facing vault file (`README.md`, `START.md`, `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md`) or a reader-facing deliverable about the story or the vault, wherever it is stored: documentation or a tutorial-video script with its production files | `reader-oriented` | The reader family's rules | +| 2 | The text is story prose, in-world text or paratext: it goes into a manuscript location of a `kind: story` vault, or the author explicitly asks for story prose | `manuscript` | The voice sheet, then `shared/story/rules.md`. Nothing from the reader family. | +| 3 | The text is another file of a story or study vault, or a research note | `working-note` | The story skills. Plain notes: neither the voice sheet nor didactic structure. | +| 4 | Everything else, including every reply to the author | `reader-oriented` | The reader family's rules, unchanged | + +The subject never sets the mode. A reply that talks about a story is still a +reply, and it stays reader-oriented inside a story vault as well. + +## Signals + +A vault is the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds both +`00-project/brief.md` and `00-project/voice.md`. Its `kind` field in the +frontmatter decides what may be written there. + +| `kind` | Permits | Otherwise | +|---|---|---| +| `story` | Manuscript drafting, once `story_id` is set and the voice sheet has `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` filled | With one of the three fields still `unset`, the work goes to the voice trial first | +| `study` | Study notes only | A drafting request is declined; nothing is drafted against the studied work's canon | +| `starter` | Nothing | The work goes to `story-bootstrap`, which creates the story vault | + +Outside any vault, a requested draft passage is still `manuscript`. The method +defaults apply, and the reply states that no voice sheet applies. + +## Storage decision + +A path or a heading must be able to say which mode applies, so manuscript text +has fixed locations. The vault's `form` field selects between two layouts. + +| `form` | Manuscript location | Working notes | +|---|---|---| +| `long-form` | Prose-only files under `06-manuscript/chapters/`, one per chapter; afterword, author note and blurb under `06-manuscript/paratext/` | The chapter card with context packet, beats, summary, canon delta and review, under `05-plot/chapters/` | +| `short-form` | The text under the heading `## Manuscript` of the piece's single note in `06-manuscript/pieces/` | Everything outside that heading in the same note | + +The split into prose files applies to long-form work only. A short piece keeps +card and prose in one note, and the heading draws the line: only the text under +`## Manuscript` is manuscript, although the note lives in `06-manuscript/pieces/`. +Afterword, author note and blurb live under `06-manuscript/paratext/` in both +forms. In both layouts a later export reads manuscript text without extracting +it from notes. + +## Where the rule is read + +No host loads a policy file before it selects a skill; only skill descriptions +are always in context. The operative sentences therefore sit where they are +read, and this file is what they are compared with. + +| Carrier | Content | +|---|---| +| Description of every story skill | Ends with the exclusion of session replies, documentation and presentation videos | +| First paragraph of every story skill body | The mode check: find the vault, read its kind | +| Second paragraph of `story-drafting` and `story-voice-review` | The precedence sentence: the voice sheet overrides the four didactic and prose skills for manuscript text | +| Description of the eight reader skills listed under `excluded_reader_skills` | Ends with the exclusion of story manuscripts and in-world text | +| First paragraph of the four reader skill bodies listed under `precedence_reader_skills` | Stop when the target is manuscript, and use the story family | +| `AGENTS.md` of a story vault, with `CLAUDE.md` as its adapter | The mode rule in three sentences, written or refreshed by `story-bootstrap` when it creates or resumes a vault | + +## Layers and what each proves + +| Layer | What it does | What its test proves | +|---|---|---| +| 1. Names | Every story skill starts with `story-`; no name equals a shared, reader or engineering skill name or contains `continuity` | The names are as stated | +| 2. Descriptions and opening lines | Reciprocal exclusions and the precedence sentence | The sentences are present and equal the policy block. Whether a model follows them is statistical. | +| 3. Link firewall | Story files link only into `shared/story/`, `templates/story-vault/`, other story skills, this file, `shared/policies/proportionality.md` and `skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md`. Reader files never link into the story directories. Backticked skill names are checked against the family map as well. | A skill cannot pull the other family's rule files in through links | +| 4. No lifecycle graph | No story skill appears in `shared/policies/lifecycle-handoffs.md` | The graph contains no story node | +| 5. Vault kind | Only `kind: story` permits drafting, and only with the three voice fields filled | The starter and the skills state the rule | + +Layers 1 to 4 have deterministic presence tests. That is a weaker statement +than "the separation is deterministic": the tests show that the text is there, +not that a host obeys it. + +## Limits + +- **Both rule sets can sit in one context.** The author asks why a part of the + world works, a didactic skill loads, and the next request is a chapter draft. + No link rule prevents that. The precedence sentence addresses it, and where + the host allows, `story-drafting` drafts from the chapter context packet in a + fresh sub-agent or session. +- **Routing checks read skill selection, not text.** Whether a chapter opens + with an analogy, or a reply drifts into a story's voice, is unmeasured. The + family keeps the experimental label until an output-level check exists and + passes. +- **Shared skills are not edited here.** `receiving-code-review` claims + unverified review feedback, which also describes beta-reader comments. If a + shared description captures story work, the correction belongs in the shared + core, not in this plugin. + +## Mixed situations + +| Situation | Disposition | +|---|---| +| A reply that discusses plot, characters or craft | `reader-oriented` | +| A reply that contains a draft passage | The passage goes into a manuscript location or a fenced block and is `manuscript`; the surrounding reply never restyles it | +| A draft passage requested outside any vault | `manuscript` with the method defaults; the reply states that no voice sheet applies | +| Documentation about the story method; a vault `README.md` | `reader-oriented`, under `documentation-authoring` | +| An in-world document, including an in-world how-to manual | `manuscript`, under `story-drafting` | +| A story excerpt quoted in documentation | Quoted material, unchanged | +| An explanatory narrated video about a story or its world | `reader-oriented`, under `tutorial-video-scripting` | +| Dramatised fiction: an audiobook or a narrated story video | Outside the method for now | +| Beta-reader or author feedback on a chapter | `story-canon-review` for canon, `story-voice-review` for voice; not `receiving-code-review` | +| Notes and craft exercises in a study vault | `working-note`, under `story-craft-research`; never a draft against the studied work's canon | + +## Completion in the story family + +A chapter is complete when a canon review exists at a named revision and the +author's acceptance is recorded. That is an author decision, not a command +result, so no story skill hands off to a pass claim. +`verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command: +links, template integrity, an export. A story vault gets no backlog; its state +lives in `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md`. + +## Orchestration + +`shared/story/story-development.md` is the only orchestration authority of the +story family. Its passes overlap and return, so the family is not a linear +lifecycle and is not part of the lifecycle handoff graph. +`shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md` sends story work to the family and +selects nothing inside it. + +## Policy block + +Tests compare the skills, the vault starter and the link rules with this block. +The entries under `sentences` are the exact text the carriers hold. + +```json +{ + "schema_version": 1, + "status": "experimental", + "families": { + "story": ["story-bootstrap", "story-worldbuilding", "story-characters", "story-architecture", "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review"], + "reader": ["documentation-planning", "documentation-authoring", "documentation-review", "documentation-pdf", "human-prose-drafting", "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "terminology-guard", "visual-placeholders", "tutorial-video-scripting", "presentation-video-production", "presentation-video-review"] + }, + "hub": "shared/policies/writing-mode.md", + "story_link_allow": { + "prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], + "files": ["shared/policies/writing-mode.md", "shared/policies/proportionality.md", "skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md"] + }, + "reader_link_deny_prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], + "precedence_reader_skills": ["explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "human-prose-drafting"], + "excluded_reader_skills": ["explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "human-prose-drafting", "documentation-authoring", "documentation-review", "terminology-guard", "tutorial-video-scripting"], + "precedence_story_skills": ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review"], + "vault": { + "markers": ["00-project/brief.md", "00-project/voice.md"], + "kinds": ["story", "study", "starter"], + "drafting_kind": "story", + "drafting_requires_voice_fields": ["viewpoint", "tense", "distance"], + "forms": ["long-form", "short-form"], + "manuscript_paths": ["06-manuscript/chapters/", "06-manuscript/paratext/"], + "short_form_manuscript_heading": "## Manuscript", + "reader_files": ["README.md", "START.md", "AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md"] + }, + "sentences": { + "story_opening": "Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap.", + "precedence": "For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session.", + "story_description_suffix": "Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos.", + "reader_description_clause": "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text.", + "reader_opening": "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md).", + "vault_instruction": "Manuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply." + } +} +``` diff --git a/shared/story/retrieval.md b/shared/story/retrieval.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b46ac4e --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/story/retrieval.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +# Retrieval and source ownership + +This contract is optional. It applies only when the session has a memory or retrieval tool the author wants used for the story. When no such tool exists, skip this file entirely: every story skill works from the vault's files alone, and nothing in the method requires a store. + +The contract is provider-neutral. It names no service, command or tool; map its terms onto whatever the host offers, and where the host cannot do something stated here, fall back to the vault. + +## The vault is the authority + +The vault is the editable source for fiction. A retrieval store holds derivatives of vault files: searchable, possibly stale, never an independent editor of the story. Retrieval is advisory. A hit locates a passage; the passage on disk decides. An absent hit is not evidence that a fact never existed. + +Do not set up bidirectional merging between a store and the vault. Never silently resolve divergent versions; the vault's accepted revision wins, and the derivative is refreshed or labelled stale. + +## Three kinds of knowledge + +| Material | Scope | Authority | +| --- | --- | --- | +| General craft research | Global or shared, never a story's scope | The original author or source; a stored note is an attributed, fallible summary | +| This method's own rules and references | The installed method files | The current method files | +| A story's canon and chapter summaries | Exactly one story: the vault's Git root | The accepted vault revision and published text | + +The scope of story material is the vault's Git root. Each story vault and each study vault is its own Git repository, so that its root is a boundary a tool can resolve; a folder inside another repository is not a separate scope. Keep a nested vault out of its parent repository's index. After the first save, read the result back and confirm that the reported scope is this vault and nothing wider. + +Never search across stories to retrieve story facts. If a tool's story-scoped search also returns general material, read the returned scope and kind and keep craft advice apart from canon. Craft guidance is not story canon, and one story's canon is never another story's fact. + +## Reading + +Read the story's brief, voice sheet, current chapter card and directly linked accepted facts from disk. Use retrieval for discovery inside the vault's scope, then open the original stored material and compare its recorded source path and revision with the file on disk before using it as current canon. Recover original passages for conflicts. + +Use the general scope for craft questions. Do not send vault content to an additional outside service for research or summarising unless the author asks for that processing. + +## Saving + +Save only when the author wants durable storage. Save concise original source notes and reusable synthesis; do not bulk-copy copyrighted text. A craft note carries source URL and author, access date, inspected scope, limits, and whether a rule is source-derived, this method's synthesis or an author choice. Successful storage does not make a note a verified fact. + +Every derivative of a vault file carries, in its body where the tool has no dedicated fields: the story ID, the note ID, the source path relative to the vault root, the source revision or content hash, the canon state, story-time validity, the reveal chapter and the derivation date. These are content conventions; do not assume the tool enforces them. + +Keep a local manifest in the vault that maps each source path and revision to the identifier the store returned. When updating, address the existing entry instead of creating a second one, then read it back. + +Only accepted material is eligible for a canon derivative. If a draft must be stored, label and scope it as a draft and keep it out of accepted-canon retrieval; the caller checks the canon state, because a store may not filter on it. For a first pilot, keep drafts local to avoid ambiguity. + +## Drift and recovery + +A changed, superseded or deleted source note needs a matching derivative update or an explicit invalidation. Until that happens, consult the vault and label the stored result stale. After an accepted chapter or a repaired canon conflict, list the derivatives that the change touched and refresh them or mark them stale; this is a manual step unless the author has set up something else. + +The integrity control for derivatives is the local manifest: source path, content hash and a full read-back at save time. Before relying on a derivative, compare its recorded hash with the current file. When the manifest and the store disagree, the vault file decides and the derivative is rebuilt. + +Nothing in this method watches files, harvests chapters automatically or proves a story consistent. A store that returns no conflict has checked nothing. diff --git a/shared/story/rules.md b/shared/story/rules.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efb8188 --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/story/rules.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# Working rules + +These are initial craft heuristics and workflow requirements, not proven predictors of readership. The story family is experimental: no rule here has been piloted on a finished story. Source IDs resolve in [the source index](sources.md). Author choices override defaults. + +For manuscript text the order of authority is: the story's voice sheet, then these rules. How the voice sheet is built and changed is described in [voice and tone](voice-and-tone.md). + +## #1 storytelling rule: therefore / but + +**Connect consequential story beats through cause and consequence or complication: this happens, therefore that follows; but something obstructs or changes the course, therefore someone responds.** A beat is a meaningful action, decision or change. A sequence joined only by "and then" needs a stronger story connection. Apply this rule first when planning, drafting and revising a story. (CW06) + +For each major transition, name what follows from the preceding action or what obstructs the current intention, and how that changes the next choice. When the connection is missing, repair the motivation, event or order; inserting "therefore" or "but" cannot create causality by itself. Complications may arise independently, but must affect the ongoing situation and produce a response. + +This is a structural check, not a requirement to repeat those words in manuscript prose, alternate them mechanically or turn every paragraph into a crisis. Quiet scenes can carry consequences through trust, knowledge, recovery or changed intentions. Nonlinear narration can reveal causes later; distinguish event causality from reveal order. + +Attribution: Trey Parker and Matt Stone's NYU craft advice, as presented in the [excerpt recorded as CW06](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2v3Z9OTC4dA). **Its position as rule #1 is a maintainer requirement of 2026-11-12.** The operational checks and long-fiction qualifications above are this method's synthesis; no empirical reader-quality result is claimed. See [CW06 in the source index](sources.md#cw06-inspected-scope) for inspected scope. + +## Further craft heuristics + +2. Build enough world to support the next meaningful story decision. Mark other questions open. Wrede's questionnaire is selective; completeness is not a prerequisite for prose. (WB01, WB12, WB14) +3. Trace consequences of a distinctive premise into ordinary life, institutions and personal choices. A feature should produce opportunities and costs beyond a visual gimmick. (WB02, WB05, WB11) +4. Define what magic or technology can do, cannot do, costs, and how people obtain it. When it resolves conflict, prepare the reader for the relevant capability. Mystery may remain mysterious without conveniently solving the climax. (WB03, WB04, WB05) +5. Give inhabitants food, energy, shelter and ecological constraints appropriate to their biology. Research real mechanisms when accuracy matters; mark invented departures. (WB06, WB15, WB17, WB19) +6. Distinguish species, ancestry, culture, nationality, faction and individual identity. Give cultures internal disagreement and change over time. Avoid treating a whole people as one temperament. (WB02; terminology separation is this method's design choice) +7. Make history causal: event, interested parties, immediate outcome, lasting consequence and present conflict. Keep disputed accounts separate from author-level truth. (WB07, WB08) +8. Economics includes time, labor, access, information and incentives. Trace scarcity and distribution rather than inventing currency names alone. (WB09, WB11, WB15) +9. Render beliefs through practices, institutions and individual experience; allow variation within a religion. (WB10) +10. Choose the story's plausibility contract. Hard science, mythic fantasy and science fantasy need different explanations; internal consistency matters in each. (WB13, WB16, WB17, WB18) +11. Reveal world details where the viewpoint character notices, needs, misunderstands or acts on them. Preserve intentional narrator explanation and restful passages when they serve the chosen voice. (WB02, WB12, WB16) +12. Plan at increasing resolution, revisiting earlier decisions when characters reveal a better story. Snowflake is one optional technique, not a required plot formula. (CW01) +13. Treat serial delivery as sustained work. Choose a feasible cadence and a chapter buffer after measuring actual drafting/revision effort. Wildbow's 12–16 chapter suggestion is his experience, not a universal quota. (CW02) + +## Maintainer defaults and local design choices + +These are requirements and defaults of this method, not source-backed craft advice. The author of a story may override any default; record the departure in the vault's decisions note. + +- Every story gets its own vault, kept as an independent Git repository. Fantasy and science fiction have equal standing. +- Cover idea, world, history, species/peoples, necessary pre-story interactions, distinctive features, main/supporting characters, overall arc and sub-arcs. Categories are review lenses, not a command to fill irrelevant encyclopedic fields. +- For the web-serial publication profile, the maintainer's default is approximately 100 chapters per sub-story arc. Record any purposeful departure. At 2,000 words per chapter this would mean about 200,000 words per arc; this is arithmetic, not a recommended chapter length. No other publication profile has a default figure in this method; its numbers are fields the author fills in the volume template. +- Maintain a whole-story destination or explicit open ending strategy, then detail the nearest arc. Do not freeze thousands of chapter beats before testing the voice. +- Keep `story_time` separate from chapter/reveal order, and world truth separate from what each character and the reader knows. +- Review new draft facts before acceptance. For every accepted change, update affected notes and the change log; where a memory or retrieval tool is used, flag its derivatives for refresh. +- A canon review report cites conflicting passages. Missing retrieval evidence means unknown, not false. A state table can verify recorded facts, not automatically prove the full prose consistent. +- Revise causality and character choices before sentence polishing. Retain intentional repetition, fragments, dialect and metaphor when they belong to the narrator or character. +- Evaluate prose through reading and author feedback. No claim of being undetectable by AI detectors or guaranteed to sound human. +- Unresolved real-world research never becomes asserted science because the fictional setting needs it. +- Accepting a chapter is an author decision recorded in the vault. No command result, review report or agent vote stands in for it. diff --git a/shared/story/sources.md b/shared/story/sources.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c235a33 --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/story/sources.md @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +# Source index for the story family + +This is the attribution index for every source ID cited in the story rules and skills, and for the references that were derived from studying existing works. It is a compact index, not the research corpus: the full source cards and the study notes are private working material of the maintainer and are not distributed with this method. New source cards use the [source card template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/source-card.md). + +The sources are distinct resources, not independent experimental studies. Several Writing Excuses episodes and Sanderson essays overlap; agreement among them is not independent validation. Craft advice is not empirical proof of literary quality. No source text is copied here; each row gives only the takeaway this method adopted. + +## Kinds of evidence + +| Kind | Meaning | +| --- | --- | +| page | The page or PDF was retrieved and assessed for the stated takeaway. It does not mean an entire course or series was completed. | +| search-excerpt | Only an indexed excerpt was assessed. Weaker evidence; it may not support detailed rules. | +| video-storyboard-captions | Sampled video frames and their embedded captions were visually inspected. Not continuous viewing and not a retrieved subtitle transcript. | + +All rows were checked on 2026-10-15 except CW06, checked on 2026-11-12. + +## Worldbuilding sources + +| ID | Title | Author or speaker | URL | Kind of evidence | Adopted takeaway | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| WB01 | Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions | Patricia C. Wrede / SFWA | | search-excerpt | Use as coverage prompts, not a completion checklist. | +| WB02 | Growing Your Iceberg | N. K. Jemisin | | page | World feature notes trace effects on society and individual experience. | +| WB03 | What Are Sanderson's Laws of Magic? | Brandon Sanderson | | page | Track setup and reader knowledge before a magical solution. | +| WB04 | Sanderson's Second Law | Brandon Sanderson | | page | A system records limits, costs and exploitable weaknesses. | +| WB05 | Sanderson's Third Law of Magic | Brandon Sanderson | | page | Review each new power against existing possibilities and societal effects. | +| WB06 | The Ecology of Worldbuilding | Jendia Gammon / SFWA | | page | Species and locations include energy/food relationships and environmental pressures. | +| WB07 | World-Building History, Season 3 Episode 1 | Writing Excuses | | page | Link historical events to current tensions or necessary opening conditions. | +| WB08 | 14.41: History | Writing Excuses | | page | Preserve open history and add causal detail with an impact review. | +| WB09 | 14.45: Economics | Writing Excuses | | page | World notes identify access, labor and competing uses of resources. | +| WB10 | 14.19: Religion and Ritual | Writing Excuses | | page | Record practices, institutions and differences among believers. | +| WB11 | 14.46: Unusual Resources | Writing Excuses | | page | A distinctive resource receives a consequence map and access conflicts. | +| WB12 | 14.35: What You Leave Out | Writing Excuses | | page | Separate author notes from details needed in a chapter. | +| WB13 | 14.44: Realism vs. Rule-of-Cool | Writing Excuses | | page | Define the genre's plausibility contract and deliberate departures. | +| WB14 | Carving a New World | N. K. Jemisin | | search-excerpt | Test the first world slice in scenes before expanding the encyclopedia. | +| WB15 | A Guide to Food, Farming, and Conflict in Worldbuilding | /project/multiplexer | | page | Ask how inhabitants are fed and what happens when supply changes. | +| WB16 | Worldbuilding: Create Brave New Worlds | Martin Cavannagh / Reedsy | | page | Use a cross-category coverage check while preserving character-driven action. | +| WB17 | Sci Fi Worldbuilding Essentials for Fiction & Games | World Anvil | | page | A science-fiction branch for habitat, transit, communication and technology. | +| WB18 | Worldbuilding Guide: Create a Fantasy Setting | World Anvil | | page | Allow expansion of the world when the story reaches a new area. | +| WB19 | Worldbuilding Worksheet | MIT OpenCourseWare, Transmedia Storytelling, Spring 2014 | | page | Use as a compact initial-world review. | + +Limit recorded for WB01: the full page could not be retrieved; only the indexed introduction was assessed. + +## Author training sources + +| ID | Title | Author or speaker | URL | Kind of evidence | Adopted takeaway | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| CW01 | The Snowflake Method for Designing a Novel | Randy Ingermanson | | page | Offer progressive outlining as one planning mode. | +| CW02 | Thoughts on Writing Serials | Wildbow | | page | Measure a pilot and choose a sustainable buffer. | +| CW06 | Therefore / but: NYU storytelling advice (excerpt titled "South Park Creators Give Hilarious Lecture At NYU") | Trey Parker and Matt Stone; excerpt published by Comedy Mountain | | video-storyboard-captions, with a contemporaneous report as cross-check | Connect consequential beats through consequences or complications. | + +## CW06: inspected scope + +The source is a Short of roughly 71 seconds from the speakers' NYU classroom appearance. The watch page and its metadata were retrieved, and all eight storyboard sheets were visually inspected. The embedded on-screen captions show the outline and beat discussion, the warning about "and then", the alternatives "therefore" and "but", and the explanation of consequence and complication in contrast with a mere list of events. These are sampled frames with embedded captions, not continuous viewing and not a retrieved subtitle transcript. The full lecture was not inspected, and the Short's publication date was not verified. + +As a cross-check, Scott Myers's [2011 report of the NYU appearance](https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/matt-stone-and-trey-parker-at-nyu-e0197747e74f/) was read; it quotes the same rule and discusses consequences and complications. That report corroborates the advice; it is not a transcript of the Short. + +What the source supports: link outline beats through consequences or complications; a chronological list lacks the causal movement the speakers seek. Their example concerns screen storytelling and their own writing process. It is author craft advice, not empirical evidence about reader enjoyment. + +What is this method's own: the position as rule #1, which is a maintainer requirement of 2026-11-12, and the operational checks for long fiction in [the working rules](rules.md#1-storytelling-rule-therefore--but). The rule is not a ban on the words "and then", a demand for constant conflict or a mechanical alternation of connectives. Its usefulness for long fiction written with this method has not been tested in a story pilot. + +## Study-derived references + +These references were written from the maintainer's own chapter-by-chapter studies of existing works. They carry mechanisms and editorial questions, not plot, characters, quotations or an author's phrasing. The study notes, the transfer notes and the original exercises behind them are private and not distributed. + +| Reference | Provenance | +| --- | --- | +| [Action sequences](../../skills/story-drafting/references/action-sequences.md) | own analysis from a private study; notes not distributed | +| [Story quality and prose quality](../../skills/story-drafting/references/story-and-prose-quality.md) | own comparative analysis from private studies; notes not distributed | +| [Scientific claims and institutional consequences](../../skills/story-worldbuilding/references/science-and-institutions.md) | own analysis from private studies; notes not distributed | +| [Reviewing a scene inside a long serial](../../skills/story-drafting/references/serial-scene-review.md) | own analysis from private studies; notes not distributed | + +The studied works and their authors are deliberately not named in this package. + +Limits that apply to all four: the comparison behind the quality reference covers four works by three authors chosen for the maintainer's taste, two of them by the same author; repetition inside such a sample does not show a general reader effect. The action reference was started from the first 25 entries of its work and refined against selected later entries. None of the references has been tested with independent readers, and none claims to reproduce an author's style. diff --git a/shared/story/story-development.md b/shared/story/story-development.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef3470d --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/story/story-development.md @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +# Guided development from an idea to a finished story + +Use this workflow for developing the author's own fiction. It orchestrates the eight story skills; it is not an additional software lifecycle or a requirement to complete an encyclopedia before writing. Read the [stage map](workflow.md) for category coverage and storage, and the [working rules](rules.md) for canon boundaries. Resume from the current artifacts, not from a fresh interview. + +This file is the only orchestration authority for the story family. The family is not part of the lifecycle handoff graph: no story skill hands off to, or is handed work by, a skill outside the family, and the passes below overlap and return instead of running as a linear lifecycle. The family is experimental; nothing here has been piloted on a finished story. + +## The conversation loop + +At each turn: + +1. Read the brief, current development state, relevant accepted notes and prior decisions. Extract decisions already stated in the conversation, including delegated choices. Do not ask them again. +2. Identify the next usable artifact and the few dependencies it actually needs. Show concrete progress before asking the author to approve a direction. +3. If a consequential choice is missing, ask one self-contained question, or at most three closely related questions. Explain what the answer changes. Offer two or three genuinely different options with costs and an informed recommendation; free-form answers remain possible. Do not hide several decisions in a large option bundle. +4. Continue independent work while an answer is pending. Wait before committing dependent prose or canon. Silence is not approval. If the author has delegated this class of choice, choose within that delegation and record the reason; do not impose a mandatory question anyway. +5. Record the result, its status and affected artifacts. End with what is now usable, the next step and any still-pending decision. Avoid repeating the complete questionnaire. + +A recommendation is not an accepted decision. Label alternatives and assumptions as proposed. Accept material only under the author's stated working agreement; routine drafting authorization is not permission to rewrite published canon. When taste is unclear, a small contrasted sample is often more useful than abstract terminology. + +## Which questions deserve interruption? + +| Decision | Ask when unresolved | Usually proceed without asking | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Reader promise | Competing emotional outcomes would create different books: comforting romance versus relationship tragedy, wonder versus sustained dread | Summarize the promise already expressed; ask only about an actual conflict | +| Ending | Choice changes the central relationship, protagonist fate or moral outcome | Keep distant events provisional under an agreed discovery approach | +| Voice | Language, viewpoint, tense or distance materially changes requested prose and no preference/delegation exists | Apply an established voice sheet; propose a tiny reversible sample | +| World rule | The choice changes available solutions, central identity, agency or the plausibility contract | Draft a bounded causal option; defer irrelevant geography and names | +| Character | Incompatible motives or trajectories require an author preference | Develop motives and supporting details consistent with the brief | +| Scope | Chapter, arc or volume estimates imply a materially different project; the publication profile is needed for the next planning step and still unset | Under the web-serial profile use approximately 100 chapters per sub-arc as the maintainer's default, with meaningful movements rather than padding; under other profiles leave figures open | +| Canon conflict | A change would contradict accepted facts, erase a payoff or revise published work | Record the conflict and continue unaffected research; do not silently retcon | +| Local detail | Ask only if it carries thematic or canon consequences | Choose a provisional name, prop or transition and keep it revisable | + +Good question: “Should the central romance remain a reliable refuge during the political conflict, or should their loyalty to each other be the main uncertainty? This changes the source of tension in the first arc.” Bad question: “Tell me everything about the world before we begin.” + +## Development passes and usable outputs + +| Pass | Work and output | Focused author decision | Smallest useful next action | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| A. Seed | Capture the supplied idea in the brief. State protagonist desire, disruptive situation, emotional promise and one central incompatibility. If necessary offer two or three short interpretations, without choosing a first novel during method work. | Which experience or interpretation should lead, if the supplied idea allows incompatible directions? | One-paragraph premise, confirmed requirements and open options | +| B. Story engine | Combine desire, obstacle, consequential choice and changed conditions. Find repeatable sources of episodes: work, exploration, relationships, obligations or opposition. Repetition must allow development. | Which conflict is central when alternatives imply different books? | A causal spine with an intended ending or explicit discovery strategy | +| C. World and past | Build the distinct feature, its limits, everyday consequences, institutions, peoples and the pre-story events needed to explain the opening. Separate species from culture, facts from beliefs, event time from reveal time. | Which rule or historical truth changes the story's moral or practical possibilities? | A small playable world, a causal history chain and marked expandable gaps | +| D. Cast and relationships | Design protagonist and supporting cast through wants, fears, competencies, limits, conflicting loyalties and attention. Give important supporting figures decisions of their own. Start a voice card for each speaking character. Revisit B/C when they expose a stronger conflict. | Which incompatible trajectory matters to the author? | Character notes with voice cards, relationship changes and who knows what | +| E. Voice trial | Choose provisional narrative settings. Write a short scene doing a real job in the proposed story. If needed compare two brief treatments of the same beat while keeping events stable. Turn the author's response into the voice sheet: narration contract per viewpoint with viewpoint, tense, distance and permitted shifts; tone palette with baseline, permitted excursions and excluded tones; language conventions; two to four anchor passages, at first the trial passages the author chose, referenced by voice trial record and revision; deliberate exceptions; paratext register; change log. Name at least two anchors: two locations in the trial scene, or the chosen parts of both treatments. | Which concrete passage better matches the desired experience, and why? | The accepted voice sheet V1 with `voice_revision: V1`, `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` set in its frontmatter, recorded as an author decision; candidate prose stays proposed as manuscript and canon, and the chosen passages serve as voice references only. Lifecycle of the sheet: [voice and tone](voice-and-tone.md) | +| F. Story architecture | Read form and publication profile. Outline whole-story turns, main and sub-arcs, carried subplots and payoff windows. Estimate scope from intended chapter length where the author has set one. Break the nearest arc into smaller causal movements. Place volume boundaries only where the profile uses volumes. | Resolve incompatible ending promises or excessive scope; not every chapter beat | Whole-story spine, nearest arc and next few chapter cards | +| G. Three-chapter pilot | Draft, revise and compare three consecutive chapters using accepted dependencies. Test voice persistence, relationships, world consequences and state handoff. | Ask for reader feedback on specific confusing, compelling or emotionally wrong passages | A revised opening and concrete revisions to the plan; no claim of 100-chapter reliability | +| H. Manuscript cycles | Draft the next agreed unit from its context packet. Revise causal/motivational problems, then scene movement and prose. Then run the canon review and, as a voice review checkpoint, the voice review of the unit or range against the voice sheet revision in force and the speaking characters' voice cards. Neither review edits accepted prose. After the author accepts changes, update the vault and explicitly refresh scoped retrieval derivatives where a memory tool is used. | Ask only at a new consequential fork or conflict with prior decisions; a voice finding classed as a candidate sheet change is an author decision | Growing manuscript with current state, setups, relationship shifts, recorded acceptance and next context packet | +| I. Arc and whole-work revision | At arc boundaries inspect local closure and changed conditions; at volume boundaries, where volumes are used, check what the volume closes. At the ending compare fulfilled promises with those actually established. Review the complete manuscript for motivation, pacing, canon and voice before line cleanup. | Resolve deliberate open endings, substantial cuts or accepted/published changes | Complete revised manuscript with unresolved limitations recorded; publication remains a separate request | + +These passes can overlap. A scene can reveal that a world rule is unusable; a supporting character can expose a missing historical cause. Return to the smallest affected decision, preserve accepted facts and propagate changes to dependent outlines. Do not restart all stages. + +Drafting in pass G or H requires a vault of kind story and a voice sheet whose `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` are set. When any of the three is still unset, the work returns to pass E. The voice review declines in the same way when the sheet has fewer than two anchor passages or an empty tone palette. Pass E can supply both: the trial passages the author chose are the first anchors, and accepted chapter passages replace or supplement them later. + +## Which skill does which pass + +| Pass | Skill | +| --- | --- | +| A, B and resuming a vault | `story-bootstrap` | +| C | `story-worldbuilding` | +| D | `story-characters` | +| E | `story-drafting` for the trial passages; the author accepts the sheet | +| F | `story-architecture` | +| G, H, I drafting and revision | `story-drafting` | +| G, H, I checks | `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review` | +| Method questions at any pass, and studies of existing works | `story-craft-research` | + +## How we judge the work + +Separate three readings: story causality and emotional payoff; prose execution against the chosen voice; the author's actual taste. Use the [quality lenses](../../skills/story-drafting/references/story-and-prose-quality.md) and the appropriate [serial scene questions](../../skills/story-drafting/references/serial-scene-review.md). Select the questions relevant to the current problem, not every lens for every paragraph. + +For feedback, ask for concrete evidence: where did interest drop, what did the reader expect, whose choice was unclear, which line felt out of character? “Make it better” does not establish a measurable target. A model's self-review can identify defects but cannot certify human reader enjoyment. Do not substitute votes among agents for actual author feedback. + +Feedback from the author or a beta reader about facts, chronology or knowledge goes to the canon review; feedback about how the text sounds goes to the voice review. Both are judged against the vault, not accepted on the reader's word alone. + +## Completion + +A chapter is complete when a canon review exists at a named revision and the author's acceptance of that revision is recorded. Acceptance is an author decision, not a command result, so no pass ends in a pass claim. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command: link checks, template integrity, an export. A chapter keeps the voice sheet revision it was accepted under; a later sheet change does not reopen it by itself. + +## Durable handoff + +In each real story vault, maintain `00-project/development.md` for the current pass, available artifact, next action, pending question and dependency boundaries. Keep `00-project/decisions.md` for stable decision IDs, author/delegation evidence, status and consequences. Both are inert planning notes, not Loreweaver character or foreshadow entities. A story vault gets no backlog; these two notes hold its state. + +Do not turn the author into a form-filler. Update these notes from the conversation. Keep only useful decisions and clear open questions. On a later return, show the outstanding question with enough context to answer it without rereading the whole project. If the author changes direction, identify impacted files and mark superseded choices; do not erase the decision history. diff --git a/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md b/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f41079 --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +# Voice and tone of a story + +This file belongs to the experimental story family. It describes how one story's voice is decided, recorded, changed and checked. It sets no style of its own: the author's voice sheet decides how a manuscript sounds, and nothing here ranks one voice above another. + +## Scope + +In scope: manuscript text of a vault of kind story, which is story prose, in-world documents and paratext such as an afterword or a blurb. + +Out of scope: tone for documents. Documentation, session replies, vault instruction files and narrated explanatory videos are not manuscript; the [writing mode](../policies/writing-mode.md) policy names what governs them. Working notes in a vault are plain notes, and the voice sheet does not style them. + +## Two records + +| Record | Where | What it decides | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Voice sheet | [`00-project/voice.md`](../../templates/story-vault/00-project/voice.md) of the vault | How the narration sounds: the narration contract per viewpoint, tone palette, language conventions, anchor passages, deliberate exceptions, paratext register | +| Character voice card | The voice card section of each [character note](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/character.md) | How one character sounds in dialogue and, as a viewpoint, what the narration attends to | + +For manuscript text the voice sheet comes first, then the [story rules](rules.md) and the defaults named in [story drafting](../../skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md). A default applies only where the sheet is silent, and a review that relies on one labels it "method default, not sheet". + +## Lifecycle of the voice sheet + +1. **V0, no voice yet.** The starter's sheet carries `voice_revision: V0` and `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` set to `unset`. Drafting is not permitted in this state. +2. **Trial.** Pass E of [guided development](story-development.md) writes a short scene that does a real job in the story, if needed in two treatments of the same beat. The author says which passage matches the intended experience and why. Trial prose stays proposed as manuscript and as canon: choosing a passage accepts it as a voice reference only. +3. **V1.** The author's choice is recorded as the accepted sheet: the three frontmatter fields, the narration contract, the tone palette, the language conventions and the first deliberate exceptions. Acceptance sets `voice_revision: V1` in the frontmatter and adds the first change-log row with its decision ID; a sheet with all three fields set never stays at `V0`. The trial passages the author chose are recorded as the first anchor passages, at least two of them, each referenced by the voice trial record and its revision. Once accepted chapters exist, their passages replace or supplement the trial anchors. +4. **Revisions.** Every later change is an author decision, recorded in the sheet's change log and in the vault's decisions note, and raises the revision. No agent changes the sheet on its own, and no sheet is changed to make a review pass. + +Chapters keep the revision they were accepted under. A chapter card or short piece records that revision in its `voice_revision` field: until acceptance the field holds the sheet revision the unit was drafted under, and at acceptance it is confirmed or set to the sheet revision in force when the author accepted the unit. A later review judges the chapter against it. A new revision reopens accepted chapters only when the author decides so and names the scope. + +## The parts of the sheet + +- **Narration contract per viewpoint.** Viewpoint, tense, distance and the permitted shifts, one entry per viewpoint the story uses. The main contract is also readable in the frontmatter. +- **Tone palette.** The baseline tone; the permitted excursions, each with what triggers it and how the prose returns; and the tones the reader promise excludes. An excursion without a return is a change of baseline and needs a decision. +- **Language conventions.** The prose language and variant, dialogue and thought punctuation, names and invented terms, numbers and emphasis. +- **Anchor passages.** Two to four accepted passages, referenced by chapter ID or voice trial record, and revision. A trial passage is accepted as a voice reference, not as canon or manuscript. +- **Deliberate exceptions.** Departures the author wants, each with where it applies and its intended effect. +- **Paratext register.** How afterword, author note and blurb sound; they need not match the narration. +- **Change log.** Revision, date, change, decision and the chapter from which it applies. + +## Anchor passages are references, not a phrase bank + +An anchor shows the voice doing its work in context, so that a later passage can be compared with it. It is cited by location and is not copied into the sheet. Do not harvest its wording, images or sentence shapes for reuse: a voice that repeats its anchors has become a set of signature phrases. When an anchored chapter is revised, the author confirms the anchor at the new revision or replaces it. + +## Character voice cards + +A card is filled for every character who speaks or carries a viewpoint, scaled to the role. The [story characters](../../skills/story-characters/SKILL.md) skill maintains it. + +| Field | Content | +| --- | --- | +| Register | Formality, sentence length, directness, and how these shift with the listener | +| Habitual attention | What the character notices first and what they overlook | +| Expertise vocabulary | The fields they can name precisely, and where that knowledge comes from | +| Limits | What they would not say, cannot articulate or get wrong | +| Tic cap | An author-set limit on how often a verbal tic may appear. The method supplies no number; the field stays unset until the author sets it. | + +Dialogue examples on a card reference accepted passages. A card distinguishes characters by what they notice, choose and withhold, not by a catchphrase. + +## Checking the voice + +The [story voice review](../../skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md) skill judges a chapter or a range against the sheet and the cards and reports findings in four classes: unintended deviation, deliberate exception, sheet gap and candidate sheet change. It needs at least two anchor passages and a filled tone palette; without them it routes back to the trial, which can supply both. An anchor may be a trial passage. It uses no banned-word list and no universal style standard, and it does not edit accepted prose. + +A voice review is one input to the author's acceptance of a chapter. It is not a measurement of quality, and passing it proves nothing about how readers will respond. diff --git a/shared/story/workflow.md b/shared/story/workflow.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..281190a --- /dev/null +++ b/shared/story/workflow.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +# Long-fiction workflow + +This is a repeatable path through a story, with return loops. It was written for long web serials and is being extended to other long forms; the story family is experimental and unpiloted. The category order reflects the maintainer's brief; later discoveries may revise earlier proposals. Ordinary drafting does not need repeated permission. Ask only for consequential missing author decisions or a change outside the established scope. + +Apply [storytelling rule #1](rules.md#1-storytelling-rule-therefore--but) throughout: connect major beats with a meaningful "therefore" consequence or "but" complication and response. Check this connection when building the story spine, arc/chapter cards and prose, and repair missing links before line polishing. This is the first structural check, including for quiet developments; it does not prescribe literal connective words in the manuscript. + +| Stage | Questions and output | Ready to proceed when | +| --- | --- | --- | +| 1. Idea and reader promise | Premise, intended audience, genre, emotional experience, central conflict, prose language, content boundaries, ending strategy, form and publication profile in the story brief | The next design choice has a clear purpose; undecided items are explicit | +| 2. World foundation | Geography/space, ecology, physical assumptions, magic/technology, institutions, everyday life | Important constraints produce usable choices and consequences | +| 3. World history | A chronological chain of events, migrations, discoveries, catastrophes and institutional change | Present tensions have causes; dates and causal ordering are plausible | +| 4. Species and peoples | Biology, habitats, needs, cultures, factions, internal variation and contact | Characters can belong to several groups without becoming stereotypes | +| 5. Pre-story interactions | Alliances, debts, betrayals, inherited conflicts, discoveries and secrets | Each necessary opening condition has a cause and someone who knows about it | +| 6. Distinctive features | A small set of defining mechanisms with consequences for work, status, family, conflict and sensory experience | Removing the feature would materially change this story | +| 7. Characters | Main/supporting cast, goals, fears, contradictions, voice card, relationships, competencies, constraints and development | Their competing choices can drive the planned conflict | +| 8. Whole-story arc | Central dramatic question, major irreversible changes, antagonist trajectory, promises and eventual payoff | The story has direction or a deliberate discovery strategy | +| 9. Sub-story arcs | Local dramatic question, stakes, reversal, climax, resolution and carryover; approximately 100 chapters each under the web-serial profile only | Each arc changes the long story and also provides a satisfying local movement | +| 10. Sequences and chapter cards | Break the nearest arc into manageable movements; chapter POV, time, place, desire, obstacle, turn, dependencies and ending effect | The next chapter has enough context to draft without guessing accepted facts | +| 11. Draft and revise | Scene prose, structural revision, voice/line pass, canon review, voice review, proposed canon changes | No blocking causal or canon problem remains within the reviewed scope | +| 12. Accept and maintain | Record the author's acceptance; update character state, history, open threads and chapter summary; refresh a source-linked retrieval derivative where a memory tool is used | Next session can resume from current files; accepted and published versions are distinguishable | + +## Guided conversation + +For execution from a minimal idea, follow [guided story development](story-development.md). It defines the next useful artifact, which missing decisions require a question, delegated choices, resumable state and manuscript completion. The stage table above remains the category map; the guided passes may revisit or combine stages. + +## Form and storage + +The brief's frontmatter field `form` decides where prose lives. The storage rule is what makes a path say whether a text is manuscript or a working note. + +| Form | Prose | Everything else about the unit | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `long-form` | One prose-only file per chapter, `06-manuscript/chapters/.md`, from the [chapter prose template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter-prose.md) | The chapter card `05-plot/chapters/.md` from the [chapter card template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter.md): context packet, beats, summary, canon delta and review | +| `short-form` | Under the heading `## Manuscript` of one note per piece in `06-manuscript/pieces/`, from the [short piece template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/short-piece.md) | The same note, outside that heading; everything outside the heading is a working note | + +Afterword, author note and blurb are manuscript too and live in `06-manuscript/paratext/`. A document that exists inside the story, such as a letter, report or manual, is manuscript wherever it appears in a prose file. The manuscript index `06-manuscript/index.md` lists, per chapter, the chapter ID, prose file, card file, arc, volume, POV and accepted revision; do not rely on filesystem sorting for order. + +Working notes are plain notes. They follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. + +## Publication profile and volumes + +The brief's frontmatter field `publication_profile` takes `unset`, `web-serial`, `light-novel` or `both`. It may stay `unset` while the story is being developed. Planning reads it before any length is discussed: + +- `web-serial`: the maintainer's default of approximately 100 chapters per sub-story arc applies as a planning default, not a quality law. +- `light-novel` and `both`: this method asserts no volume length, chapter length or illustration count. Those are fields of the [volume template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md) that the author fills, from researched source cards or from the author's own decision. +- `unset`: plan arcs by their causal movements and leave length figures open. + +A volume is a packaging unit beside the arc, not a level inside it. An arc may span several volumes, and a volume may close before its arc does. Plan the story in arcs and movements; then decide where volume boundaries fall and what each volume needs to feel complete. Record a volume's arc coverage in its volume note and the volume of each chapter in the manuscript index. + +## Planning resolution + +Keep the whole-story spine short enough to reread. Outline the current arc at sequence level, and only the next few chapters in scene detail. The exact look-ahead is a project choice. A 100-chapter arc can contain several smaller movements; neither their count nor their length is fixed by this method. Every movement needs a change in knowledge, relationships, objectives or conditions. Quiet chapters can supply that change without combat or a cliffhanger. + +Subplots may cross arc boundaries. Each has its own owner, opening, development, payoff and dependencies; a subplot is not automatically a 100-chapter unit. Track romantic, political, mystery and character threads independently from the publishing arc and volume structure. + +## The chapter context packet + +Before drafting, assemble the story brief and voice sheet, current arc and chapter card, relevant accepted world/character notes, prior chapter ending, current physical and knowledge state, and due setups/payoffs. List exact files and revisions in the card. The packet also names the voice sheet revision in force and the voice cards of the characters who speak in the unit; see [voice and tone](voice-and-tone.md). Load original text for conflicts and pivotal details; summaries are navigation aids. + +Keep the packet within the available context budget. Select by dependency and current scene, not by dumping the entire vault or trusting a generic retrieved summary. When a required fact is missing, consult the vault, mark it unknown or propose it openly. Do not borrow canon from another story. + +The packet is written so that drafting can start from it alone. Where the host allows, the draft is written from the packet in a fresh sub-agent or session, so that rules loaded for other kinds of writing earlier in the conversation are not in context. + +After drafting, record a concise chapter summary and a proposed delta: new facts, changed locations, injuries, possessions, knowledge, relationship shifts, planted/paid promises and elapsed time. Resolve conflicts before accepting the delta. Draft revisions can invalidate both summaries and retrieval derivatives; see the [retrieval contract](retrieval.md). + +## Expansion and retcons + +New history can fill an uncommitted gap. If it changes an accepted fact, enumerate the affected scenes, character knowledge and later payoffs, propose the smallest coherent revision, and record the decision. Published text needs an explicit author decision about errata, revised edition or an intentional in-world explanation. An unreliable narrator is an explanation only when supported by the work, not an automatic repair. + +## Pilot before scaling + +Start with one chosen premise, a small world slice, three differentiated characters, one arc skeleton and three consecutive chapters. Review whether voice survives, world features cause action, state changes are preserved and an intentional contradiction is found. Extend to an arc only after this works. A three-chapter pilot cannot establish 100-chapter reliability; retain periodic arc-level reviews and eventual long-run evaluation. diff --git a/skills/documentation-authoring/SKILL.md b/skills/documentation-authoring/SKILL.md index 6c310d1..1ef9bb1 100644 --- a/skills/documentation-authoring/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/documentation-authoring/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: documentation-authoring -description: "Use when reader-facing documentation must be written or revised: one standalone document, or chunks of a planned documentation set with a plan under docs/writing. Applies the content-type skeletons, chunk frontmatter, didactic writing skills, glossary and placeholder conventions. Not for a wording fix inside existing text, for planning a multi-document set (use documentation-planning), or for software specifications." +description: "Use when reader-facing documentation must be written or revised: one standalone document, or chunks of a planned documentation set with a plan under docs/writing. Applies the content-type skeletons, chunk frontmatter, didactic writing skills, glossary and placeholder conventions. Not for a wording fix inside existing text, for planning a multi-document set (use documentation-planning), or for software specifications. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Documentation Authoring @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ ordinary continuation follows the existing plan directly. - Specifications, plans or architecture documents that belong to an engineering lifecycle. - Set-wide consistency review; that is `documentation-review`. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Consumes diff --git a/skills/documentation-review/SKILL.md b/skills/documentation-review/SKILL.md index ea3bd34..85adf34 100644 --- a/skills/documentation-review/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/documentation-review/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: documentation-review -description: "Use when drafted chunks of a documentation set under docs/writing must be checked for set-wide consistency before acceptance: frontmatter against the manifest, one content type per chunk, step-block and validation rules, terminology, curse-of-knowledge gaps, placeholders and cross-references. Not for code review, for reviewing a single standalone document, or for writing corrections." +description: "Use when drafted chunks of a documentation set under docs/writing must be checked for set-wide consistency before acceptance: frontmatter against the manifest, one content type per chunk, step-block and validation rules, terminology, curse-of-knowledge gaps, placeholders and cross-references. Not for code review, for reviewing a single standalone document, or for writing corrections. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Documentation Review @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ change that affects already drafted chunks. - A standalone document; `documentation-authoring` performs a recorded self-review with the same checks. - Making the corrections; findings return to `documentation-authoring`. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Consumes diff --git a/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md b/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md index c326582..480ad61 100644 --- a/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ --- name: empathic-troubleshooting -description: "Use when writing help for something that has gone wrong or may go wrong, in documentation or an ordinary reply: start from what the reader sees, name likely causes in order, give the first check, then the fix and its confirmation. Not for diagnosing a defect in code you own (engineering diagnosis is outside this plugin), for normal procedures, or for reference lists of error codes." +description: "Use when writing help for something that has gone wrong or may go wrong, in documentation or an ordinary reply: start from what the reader sees, name likely causes in order, give the first check, then the fix and its confirmation. Not for diagnosing a defect in code you own (engineering diagnosis is outside this plugin), for normal procedures, or for reference lists of error codes. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Empathic Troubleshooting +Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). + Apply the shared [proportionality rule](../../shared/policies/proportionality.md) before adding work, delegating, or repeating verification. @@ -26,6 +28,8 @@ user reports that something is not working for them. - Ordinary procedures where nothing has failed; use `writing-procedures`. - Machine-readable error catalogs. A code table may exist as reference, but the troubleshooting text is organized by what the reader experiences. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Entry pattern diff --git a/skills/explaining-concepts/SKILL.md b/skills/explaining-concepts/SKILL.md index d74ced2..758b953 100644 --- a/skills/explaining-concepts/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/explaining-concepts/SKILL.md @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ --- name: explaining-concepts -description: "Use when a technical concept, mechanism, or design must be explained to a reader who lacks the writer's expertise, in documentation or an ordinary reply. Introduces each concept with an everyday analogy before the mechanism and removes undefined jargon. Not for step-by-step instructions, reference tables, or error diagnosis." +description: "Use when a technical concept, mechanism, or design must be explained to a reader who lacks the writer's expertise, in documentation or an ordinary reply. Introduces each concept with an everyday analogy before the mechanism and removes undefined jargon. Not for step-by-step instructions, reference tables, or error diagnosis. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Explaining Concepts +Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). + Apply the shared [proportionality rule](../../shared/policies/proportionality.md) before adding work, delegating, or repeating verification. @@ -28,6 +30,8 @@ applies this skill to ordinary replies as well as to documents. understanding. Reference text may link to a concept chunk instead. - Readers who demonstrably share the vocabulary and asked for the short expert version. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Explanation pattern diff --git a/skills/human-prose-drafting/SKILL.md b/skills/human-prose-drafting/SKILL.md index 34336d6..580c04c 100644 --- a/skills/human-prose-drafting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/human-prose-drafting/SKILL.md @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ --- name: human-prose-drafting -description: "Use within documentation-authoring for medium and large texts to apply Humanizer prose guidance from the first sentence, with a brief per-chunk check. Not a separate rewrite phase or a reason to change facts, code, quotations or required document structure." +description: "Use within documentation-authoring for medium and large texts to apply Humanizer prose guidance from the first sentence, with a brief per-chunk check. Not a separate rewrite phase or a reason to change facts, code, quotations or required document structure. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Human Prose Drafting +Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). + Apply the shared [proportionality rule](../../shared/policies/proportionality.md) before adding work, delegating, or repeating verification. @@ -30,6 +32,8 @@ how the sentences may not be built. verified source material, never from this skill; when a sentence needs a missing detail, write a simpler sentence or record the gap. - Small-scale edits inside existing text that keep the surrounding voice. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Two rules while drafting diff --git a/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md b/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7223463 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +name: story-architecture +description: "Use when the structure of a long story must be outlined: whole-story direction, sub-arcs, smaller causal movements, volumes as packaging units, chapter cards, subplots and setups with payoffs, read against the story's form and publication profile. Not for drafting chapters, or for outlining every chapter of a long story at once. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story architecture + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +Outlines, arc notes, volume notes and chapter cards are working notes: plain notes that follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. + +Read the story brief, accepted cast/world constraints and [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md). Use the [arc](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/arc.md), [volume](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md), [chapter card](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter.md) and [foreshadow](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/foreshadow.md) templates. + +Read `form` and `publication_profile` from the brief's frontmatter before discussing any length. `form` decides whether the units are chapters with cards or short pieces. `publication_profile` decides which defaults exist at all; if the next planning step needs it and it is `unset`, ask the author instead of assuming one. + +Use [guided development](../../shared/story/story-development.md) when major choices remain unresolved. Offer concrete alternatives with consequences; preserve agreed discovery writing rather than forcing a fixed ending. Use the story lenses in [quality review](../story-drafting/references/story-and-prose-quality.md) to distinguish a plausible outline from a compelling manuscript. + +Establish the whole-story dramatic question, character trajectories, major irreversible changes and intended ending or discovery strategy. Trace how antagonistic action and protagonist choices cause later events. Keep unresolved options visible. + +Apply [storytelling rule #1](../../shared/story/rules.md#1-storytelling-rule-therefore--but) before other structural refinements: connect major beats of the spine, arcs and nearest chapters through "therefore" consequences or "but" complications that change the next choice. For a connection that amounts only to "and then", repair the underlying events or motivation. Test the causal sequence separately from reveal order; quiet relationship or knowledge changes count. + +## Arcs + +Design sub-story arcs around local questions and material changes. Under the `web-serial` profile the maintainer's default is approximately 100 chapters per arc; it is a planning default, not a quality law, and it applies to that profile only. Where the author has set a chapter length, estimate total words from it and check the resulting scope. Record justified deviations and avoid padding to reach a number. + +Break the current arc into smaller causal movements. Each movement changes conditions, knowledge, relationships or objectives and contributes to the arc. Track subplots separately; they may cross arc boundaries. Track promises from planting to development to payoff, including intended reader knowledge and latest useful payoff window. + +## Volumes + +A volume is a packaging unit beside the arc, not a level inside it. An arc may span several volumes, and a volume may end before its arc does. Plan arcs and movements first; then, where the profile is `light-novel` or `both`, decide where volume boundaries fall and what each volume opens and closes. + +Apart from the web-serial arc default above, this method asserts no volume length, chapter length, chapters per volume or illustration count for any profile. Those are fields of the volume template, unset in the starter, and the author fills them: from researched source cards, or as the author's own recorded decision. Do not supply a figure from memory, and do not present an unset field as a default. If the author wants researched conventions, that is a task for `story-craft-research`. + +Record in each volume note which arcs it covers and where an arc crosses its boundary, and record each chapter's volume in the manuscript index. + +## Chapter cards + +Detail only the nearest chapters. Each card names viewpoint, place, story time, starting state, desire, obstacle, meaningful change, relevant canon dependencies, setups/payoffs and ending effect. In a long-form vault the card lives in `05-plot/chapters/.md` and links the prose file `06-manuscript/chapters/.md`; the card holds no manuscript text. Quiet chapters can develop relationships or consequences; not every chapter requires a cliffhanger or disaster. + +## Studying and reviewing structure + +When studying an existing serial, preserve its explicit act boundaries separately from your analytical groupings. Do not impose the target chapter count on a reference work. At an arc boundary distinguish local closure, changed resources or relationships, and the question that carries forward; an ending can be emotionally complete while leaving a larger task open. + +Review escalation for repetition, power inflation, stalled subplots, accidental resets and implausible travel/time. Let consequences carry across arcs. Preserve room for discoveries without moving established payoffs indefinitely. + +Return an outline usable for the next drafting step, scope estimates where the author's figures allow them, and identified structural risks. A 100-row chapter list is not evidence of 100 chapters of compelling story. Do not publish or schedule output automatically. The outline remains proposed until the author accepts it; `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks or template integrity. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md b/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..645f344 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +name: story-bootstrap +description: "Use when a story project must be started or resumed: creating a story's own Markdown/Obsidian vault from the starter, setting its kind, story ID, form and publication profile, recording the story brief and first voice decisions, or picking up an existing vault. Not for inventing a story during method research, for an analysis vault of an existing work, or for drafting chapters. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story bootstrap + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +Read [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md) and [rules](../../shared/story/rules.md). Read the [retrieval contract](../../shared/story/retrieval.md) only if a memory or retrieval tool is available. Paths in this skill resolve from its own folder; story paths resolve from the selected vault. + +For a minimal idea or a resumed development conversation, use [guided story development](../../shared/story/story-development.md). Read `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md` when they exist; update them from the conversation rather than requiring the author to fill forms. Ask only the next consequential unresolved question and preserve prior delegation. + +Inspect the requested destination first. Resume an existing story without overwriting its artifacts. For a new story, copy the [vault starter](../../templates/story-vault/START.md) and its whole directory into a unique story path outside the installed plugin and outside any other vault. Keep the template source untouched. Never draft in a vault whose kind is still `starter`: the starter is a template, and a copy stays a starter until the steps below are done. + +## Set the vault marker + +The frontmatter of `00-project/brief.md` and `00-project/voice.md` is the vault's marker. Set it in both files: + +- `kind: story`. A vault for analysing an existing work gets `kind: study` instead and belongs to `story-craft-research`; do not set it up here as a story. +- `story_id`: one unique ID, the same in both files. It lives only in frontmatter, is set once and never changes. Use that ID in instantiated notes; template IDs remain templates. +- `form` in the brief: `long-form` or `short-form`. It decides where prose is stored; see the storage rule in the workflow. +- `publication_profile` in the brief: ask the author whether the story is meant as `web-serial`, `light-novel` or `both`. It may stay `unset`; do not choose it for the author, and do not derive lengths from it. + +Loreweaver-ready templates use `type: template` plus `template_type`; on instantiation set `type` to the intended native type and remove `template_type`. Loreweaver ignores canon status when indexing. + +## Write the vault instruction files + +On create and on every resume, write or refresh the vault's `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md` from the starter's current [AGENTS.md](../../templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md) and [CLAUDE.md](../../templates/story-vault/CLAUDE.md). `AGENTS.md` is the authority and states which rules govern manuscript, working notes and replies; `CLAUDE.md` stays a thin adapter that imports it. If the vault's copies differ from the starter, bring the method's text up to date, keep lines the author added, and report what changed. Lasting story decisions belong in `00-project/`, not in these files. + +## Brief and first voice decisions + +Extract the author's premise, intended reader experience, language, genre, central conflict and ending intent. Record known decisions in `00-project/brief.md`; mark unresolved items explicitly. Ask only for information necessary to choose the next action. Offer provisional alternatives when authorized; never represent them as accepted author decisions. No mandatory interview overrides the author's instructions. + +Record what the author has already decided about narrative perspective, tense, distance, register and dialogue conventions in `00-project/voice.md`, using the author's own samples when available. Set the frontmatter fields `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` only from an author decision. When the author's decision sets all three without a trial, that decision is the acceptance of V1: set `voice_revision: V1`, add the change-log row and record the decision in `00-project/decisions.md`. Parts of the sheet that are still empty stay marked as undecided; the anchor passages a voice review needs still come from the voice trial. While any of the three is `unset`, the sheet stays at `V0` and drafting is not permitted: route to the voice trial, pass E of guided story development, whose output is the accepted voice sheet V1 described in [voice and tone](../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md). + +Build only enough world and character context to test the premise. Route world design to `story-worldbuilding`, cast work to `story-characters`, and arc planning to `story-architecture`. The available artifact and the author's request decide the next task; do not restart a completed stage. + +## Repository and retrieval + +Give the vault its own Git repository, and keep its contents outside any parent repository's index. A story vault gets no backlog; its state lives in `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md`. + +If a memory or retrieval tool is available and the author wants it used, record the scope in `00-project/retrieval.md`: the vault's Git root, nothing wider. A folder alone is not story isolation. Verify the saved scope against the vault root before treating the boundary as established. If no such tool exists, leave that note unused. + +## Finish + +Finish with the created or resumed vault location, the marker values now set, established choices, unresolved consequential choices and the next usable artifact. Do not install community plugins, publish chapters or invent a first novel because the author only asked to build the method. + +`verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks or template integrity. Whether the brief or the voice sheet is right is an author decision. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md b/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26889d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +name: story-canon-review +description: "Use when story chapters, short pieces or plans must be checked against accepted canon: chronology, character knowledge, object states and promised payoffs, with evidence from both passages, including retcon impact analysis and author or beta-reader feedback about facts in the story. Not for unsupported assurance that an entire novel is consistent, for judging how the prose sounds, or for code or documentation review. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story canon review + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +The review report is a working note. It never restyles manuscript, and it does not judge voice or tone; that belongs to `story-voice-review`. + +Read the relevant accepted notes, manuscript passages and the [review template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md); read the [retrieval contract](../../shared/story/retrieval.md) only if a memory or retrieval tool is in use. Establish the exact chapters and revisions in scope. Summaries and retrieval hits locate evidence; original passages decide findings. + +Feedback from the author or a beta reader about facts, chronology, knowledge or promised payoffs is handled here. Treat each comment as a claim to check against the vault, not as an instruction to change the text: locate both passages, then classify the result as below. A reader's confusion can be a real finding even when no contradiction exists; record it as a craft concern. + +Check time and travel; physical locations and object ownership; injuries, deaths and abilities; resource constraints; relationship state; viewpoint/character knowledge; names/identities; setup and payoff order; and causal prerequisites. A flashback, mistaken belief or unreliable account can explain a mismatch; verify that explanation rather than guessing it. + +For every finding cite both the chapter passage and the conflicting rule, state or earlier passage. Classify it as confirmed contradiction, missing evidence, intentional exception supported by text, or craft concern. Mark severity by its effect on comprehension and future dependencies, not by how easy a line is to change. + +Before flagging a capability mismatch, compare the categories and speaker authority in both passages: raw output versus a shaped technique, belief versus demonstrated limit, and a reader's earlier inference versus later explanation. Preserve the earlier reader state even when updating the current model. Do not assume a shared conversation produced a shared agreement; track intended and understood meanings separately when the text supports a difference. + +Keep public reputation, official records, private belief, stated intention and observed behavior separate. Track a promise by its wording and later conduct; literal compliance may leave its social purpose unmet. After a victory, check surviving costs and obligations before treating the next chapter as a fresh state. + +For documents inside the fiction, including epigraphs, news and case files, record both the event date and when the reader encounters the claim. Identify the attributed speaker or institution; a visually authoritative format does not make an allegation objective truth. Later disclosures may corroborate only part of a report. + +When minds, bodies, copies or remote avatars diverge, track each instance separately: origin, current embodiment, active consciousness, memories available and who knows the relationship. A stored copy is not automatically an active person; a shared origin is not proof of shared current knowledge. Use this ledger only when identity mechanics matter to the work. + +Compare proposed new facts with accepted canon. Resolve duplicates by stable ID. For a proposed retcon list dependent chapters, historical events, character knowledge and future payoffs. Preserve previously published versions until the author chooses the revision strategy. + +Recommend the smallest coherent repair. Implement only within the authorized revision scope. After a repair, reread affected passages and dependencies and refresh changed summaries; where a memory tool is used, flag stale retrieval derivatives. Do not silently reinterpret the story to make a report pass. + +## Completion and acceptance + +Finish with scope, the named revision of every file reviewed, findings and supporting passages, repairs performed, remaining decisions and limits. No conflicts found in three chapters does not prove the whole serial consistent. A new review is required after material revisions. + +A chapter is complete when two things exist: a canon review at a named revision, and the author's recorded acceptance of that revision. This skill supplies the first. The second is an author decision, not a command result: record it in the chapter card or short piece, together with the voice sheet revision in force (`voice_revision`), and in the manuscript index, only when the author has given it, and never infer it from a clean report or from silence. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks, template integrity or an export. A story vault has no backlog; open review decisions go to `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md`. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md b/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae5e3e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +name: story-characters +description: "Use when main or supporting characters of a story must be built or revised: motivations, competing values, relationships, character voice cards and development across a long story. Not for diagnosing real people, for automatically rewriting accepted canon, or for chapter prose. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story characters + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +Character notes are working notes: plain notes that follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. + +Read the story brief, voice sheet, relevant world constraints and accepted cast notes. Use the [character template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/character.md) and [working rules](../../shared/story/rules.md). + +For each important character connect a concrete want to a motive, competing value, fear, capacity and limitation. Show a difficult choice that could expose those tensions. A contradiction can make a person interesting; unexplained behavior that contradicts established motivation needs development. + +Record observable behavior, physical traits only where useful, expertise, blind spots, secrets, social ties and starting knowledge. Differentiate characters through what they notice, choose, conceal and say, not only appearance or catchphrases. Do not make every character use the narrator's metaphors. + +## Voice card + +How a character sounds is recorded in the voice card section of the character note, not scattered through the profile. For every character who speaks or narrates, fill the card as described in [voice and tone](../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md): + +- register: how this person speaks to whom, and what changes it; +- habitual attention: what they notice first and what they overlook; +- expertise vocabulary: the terms their work or history gives them, and where those terms stop; +- limits: what they would not say, cannot name or get wrong; +- tic cap: an author-set field for how often a verbal habit may recur. Leave it unset until the author sets it; this method supplies no number. + +Dialogue examples on a card are proposed until they appear in accepted prose. A card describes a mechanism of speech and attention; it is not a phrase bank to be reused. When the narration contract of the voice sheet and a card disagree about a viewpoint character, record the conflict as an open decision instead of settling it silently. + +## Cast and relationships + +Give supporting characters independent needs and relationships; scale detail to their narrative role. Distinguish antagonist motive from the protagonist's opinion of it. Character change may be growth, corruption, a tested stable conviction or another intentional trajectory. + +Map relationships as directional and time-dependent: what A wants from B, what each believes, shared history, power imbalance and the event that could change it. Preserve the difference between a secret being true and another character knowing it. + +Propose arc milestones as choices under changed pressure, not a personality label that flips on a chapter number. Check that the world permits their skills, travel, resources and influence. End with cast notes, voice cards, relationship changes and open choices; new material remains proposed until accepted under the story's working agreement. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks or template integrity. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md b/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91113d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +name: story-craft-research +description: "Use when fiction craft or worldbuilding method must be researched: assessing author, editor and educator guidance and writing tools, studying an existing novel or serial chapter by chapter in a study vault, where a drafting request is declined and nothing is drafted against the studied work's canon, and turning sources into attributed source cards and scoped practices. Not for copying books or for treating creative heuristics as scientific laws. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story craft research + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +Research notes, source cards and study notes are working notes: plain notes that follow neither a voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. + +## Where the work is kept + +The research workspace is not part of this plugin. Its location is given by the author or by the instructions of the workspace the session runs in: where source cards, the source catalogue and study vaults live. If neither names a location, ask before writing anything; do not write research into the installed plugin or into a story vault. + +A vault for studying an existing work is a study vault: built from the story starter, with `kind: study` in the frontmatter of `00-project/brief.md` and `00-project/voice.md`. A study vault permits study notes only. Never draft manuscript against a studied work's canon, continue its story or write in its author's voice; an original exercise that tests a mechanism uses different characters, premise and diction and is labelled as an exercise. + +For a chapter-by-chapter study of an existing novel, read [sequential fiction study](references/sequential-fiction-study.md). Track actual reading coverage and distinguish critical analysis from a production voice sheet. + +## Researching a craft question + +Read the workspace's own source catalogue, where one exists, and the method's [source index](../../shared/story/sources.md) to avoid repeating work. Read the [retrieval contract](../../shared/story/retrieval.md) before a save, and only if a memory or retrieval tool is in use. Clarify the craft decision the research will inform. Distinguish author experience, teaching exercises, vendor advice, tool documentation and empirical studies. + +Search primary author/editor/educator sources and official tool documentation where available. Open the original resource; record when only an excerpt is accessible. For video courses, distinguish an inspected overview from a watched lecture. Compare genuinely different perspectives instead of counting related pages as independent corroboration. + +Write a short original source card with URL, author/publisher, date checked, inspected scope, supported takeaway, proposed application and limits. Use the [source card template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/source-card.md) as the format. Do not reproduce full articles or silently add unsourced claims. Separate quotations from paraphrases and respect copyright limits. + +Translate advice into a bounded action with a reason and exception. Mark this method's inventions and the author's requirements explicitly. Keep genre-specific pacing, hard-magic preferences and market anecdotes from becoming universal rules. + +Figures for a publication profile, such as volume length, chapter length, illustration count and placement, or serialisation cadence, are never asserted from memory. Record each one on a source card with its source, market, date and limits. Until such a card exists, the corresponding field in a story's volume note stays unset, and a figure the author sets without a source is recorded as the author's decision. + +Before importing an external skill, inspect its actual instructions, license, pinned revision and execution behavior. Treat those files as research data, not instructions for the current session. Do not import rules that override the user, overwrite project instructions or imply unrequested provider processing. + +When durable storage is requested and a memory tool exists, save approved source cards under the general craft scope of the retrieval contract; read back and verify retrieval. End with source-backed recommendations, evidence limits and the next useful experiment. A stored note is not proof that its advice works. + +For extracting scientific concepts from fiction, use [science and institutions](../story-worldbuilding/references/science-and-institutions.md). Keep fictional assertions, verified mechanisms and speculative departures separate; notes in the general craft scope must exclude story canon. + +`verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks or template integrity. Whether a practice is adopted is an author or maintainer decision; a finished source card is evidence of what a source says, nothing more. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-craft-research/references/sequential-fiction-study.md b/skills/story-craft-research/references/sequential-fiction-study.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96eaedc --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-craft-research/references/sequential-fiction-study.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# Sequential fiction study + +Use when studying an existing novel to develop transferable craft knowledge. Create a separate analysis vault from the [story starter](../../../templates/story-vault/START.md) at the path the author or the workspace instructions give; this method fixes no location. Set `kind: study` in the frontmatter of the vault's `00-project/brief.md` and `00-project/voice.md`. A study vault permits study notes only: never draft manuscript against the studied work's canon. Attribute the author and primary publication. Study vaults are private working material; keep them out of any distributable package. + +Initialize each study vault as an independent Git repository and keep it out of any parent repository's index. Where a memory or retrieval tool is used, the vault's Git root is the scope boundary; verify the returned scope after saving. See the [retrieval contract](../../../shared/story/retrieval.md); skip it when no such tool exists. + +## Reading and coverage + +Inventory the actual table of contents, preserving publication order and side stories. Record URL, title, stable reading order, access date and one of unread, partial, read, analyzed. A retrieved page or a generated summary does not prove full reading. Inspect the chapter through its final narrative paragraph; truncated tool results require further reads. A changing cached page needs a fresh coverage check. Keep author notes, reader comments, advertising and injected platform messages outside the narrative analysis; preserve intentional typography. + +Read sequentially. Before advancing, record a concise original chapter critique and its knowledge delta. Update the relevant project sections or record no new evidence. Preserve prior reader states rather than rewriting early uncertainty with hindsight. If older chapter analyses were produced before the projection existed, describe that as backfilled indexing, not a historical snapshot. + +Use source links and scene landmarks for evidence. Prefer compact paraphrases; no chapter archives, exhaustive replacement retellings or phrase banks. Scope any retrieval derivatives to the study vault's Git root and include coverage/revision. Keep fictional facts out of global craft guidance. + +## Authorized parallel reading + +When the user explicitly chooses parallel blocks, give each worker a disjoint publication-order range and isolated outputs. Read sequentially and record deltas within each block. Label these as block-local observations: later workers must not infer unseen setup or pretend to share a continuous first-reader state. Keep the central ledger unchanged until the coordinator checks full-read coverage and integrates records in publication order. Reconcile names, chronology, changing rules and setup/payoff across every block boundary. Record who read which range and distinguish coordinator synthesis from direct rereading. Parallel coverage is not an independent literary evaluation. If access failures force a changed reading order, preserve the actual order and recovery record; sorting the final notes must not erase that limitation. + +## Chapter lenses + +- Separate events observed, narrator assertions, character reports, beliefs and analyst inference. Record who learns what and when. A later explanation can narrow an earlier rule without proving a contradiction. +- Track the change in goal, obstacle, decision, resource or relationship. Distinguish narrative order from world chronology and delayed backstory. +- Identify viewpoint and distance, attention, sentence/paragraph movement, dialogue versus inner language, and the function of a formulation. Explain effects instead of collecting signature expressions. +- For humor, identify expectation, misdirection, changed interpretation and reaction. For dramatic buildup, identify the prepared vulnerability, trigger, consequence and recovery time. Note when the same detail changes emotional meaning. +- Track setup and payoff separately from open curiosity. A reader question is not automatically a promised resolution. Preserve local closure even when a larger question continues. +- Record social/ethical friction and uncertain reader effects alongside successful techniques. Do not convert every recurring device into advice. + +## Skill improvement + +Maintain a promotion log: observation -> evidence -> general mechanism -> candidate practice -> exception -> test. Repeated occurrences within one work are not independent evidence of universal effectiveness. Compare a distant later passage or counterexample before calling a pattern stable. Transfer mechanisms, not an identifiable author's phrase patterns or distinctive stylistic bundle. + +Test a candidate on a wholly original scene with different characters, premise and diction. State the observable target, such as whether readers can distinguish intended from understood meaning. Structural validation proves skill format only; one self-reviewed exercise does not establish improved literary quality. Keep project observations provisional until tested. + +End each work interval with exact analyzed/total coverage, next unread entry, unresolved access gaps and changed files. Never equate a prepared vault or chapter inventory with a completed study. + +## Dense concept studies + +When the user wants explanatory context for many fictional concepts, keep chapter occurrences separate from distinct research topics. Map each meaningful occurrence to a short explanation or an explicit unresolved/fictional-only disposition. Group related mechanisms without erasing different uses. Explain the concept in ordinary language, connect it to the cited scene, then distinguish a real analogue from the invented extension. Shared names do not establish equivalence: a fictional technical term may exceed or contradict its scientific namesake. A coverage map proves the notes were addressed, not that all fictional technology is feasible or every source was exhaustively reviewed. + +## Resuming a very large study + +When the user requests checkpoints, persist each completed chapter record before opening the next. Preserve stable source order separately from printed numbering; explicitly decide how interludes count. Keep fully read but not yet integrated worker records discoverable. The checkpoint names coverage, last completed block, exact next unread URL, outstanding access gaps and pending integration. A block-complete flag requires its report and verified coverage; it never means the whole novel is complete. Record the actual parallel reading order. Source retrieval caches are not reading receipts. After a reset, reconcile records and ledger before rereading or skipping anything. Use the user's chosen cadence; do not impose a 25-chapter block on other projects. diff --git a/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md b/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c79fa99 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +--- +name: story-drafting +description: "Use when story manuscript must be drafted or revised: scenes, chapters and short pieces with controlled viewpoint, distinctive voice, dialogue, rhythm and canon dependencies, including in-world documents such as a letter, report or manual inside the story, and afterword or blurb. Not for documentation humanizing, for promises to evade AI detectors, or for judging accepted prose. Not for a study vault or an unused starter vault. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story drafting + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session. + +## What counts as manuscript, and where it goes + +Manuscript is story prose, any document that exists inside the story (a letter, a report, a case file, an in-world how-to manual), and paratext: afterword, author note and blurb. An in-world manual is written in the voice the story gives its fictional writer, not as instructions for a real reader. + +Drafting needs two things: a vault of kind story, and a voice sheet whose frontmatter fields `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` are all set. In a starter, stop and route to `story-bootstrap`. In a study vault, do not draft at all. When one of the three fields is `unset`, route to the voice trial, pass E of [guided development](../../shared/story/story-development.md); the trial passages it needs are the only prose written before the sheet exists, and they stay proposed as manuscript and canon; the ones the author chooses become the sheet's first anchor passages. + +Write prose to the path given by `form` in the brief: + +| Form | Prose goes to | Card, summary, canon delta and review go to | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `long-form` | `06-manuscript/chapters/.md`, prose only, from the [chapter prose template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter-prose.md); paratext to `06-manuscript/paratext/` | The chapter card `05-plot/chapters/.md` | +| `short-form` | Under the heading `## Manuscript` of one note per piece in `06-manuscript/pieces/`, from the [short piece template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/short-piece.md) | The same note, outside that heading | + +When the author asks for a story passage outside any vault, write it in a fenced block with the method defaults below and say that no voice sheet applies. The reply around a passage is a reply, not manuscript, and never restyles it. + +## Before drafting + +Read [rules](../../shared/story/rules.md), the story voice sheet and the current scene/chapter context packet described in [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md). Besides the files and revisions the workflow lists, the packet names the voice sheet revision in force and the voice cards of the characters who speak in this unit; see [voice and tone](../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md). Retrieve original accepted passages for pivotal dependencies. + +Where the host allows, draft from the chapter context packet in a fresh sub-agent or session, so that rules loaded earlier for other kinds of writing are not in context. Hand over the packet and this skill, not the conversation. Where the host does not allow it, draft in place; the precedence sentence above still holds. + +For premise-to-pilot feedback or broad prose revision, use [story and prose quality](references/story-and-prose-quality.md). Separate narrative causality, execution of the chosen voice and author taste; select concrete questions rather than assigning a universal quality score. Consequential unresolved choices follow guided development. + +## Drafting + +Draft the requested unit, normally a scene or chapter. Let viewpoint determine attention, vocabulary, judgment and available knowledge. Maintain the agreed tense, distance and rules for viewpoint changes. A narrator may know more than a character only when the chosen narration permits it. Stay inside the sheet's tone palette: leave the baseline only for a permitted excursion, and return as the sheet describes. + +Apply [storytelling rule #1](../../shared/story/rules.md#1-storytelling-rule-therefore--but) while drafting and as the first structural revision check: each consequential beat follows through cause and consequence or a complication that changes the response. If the passage is only an "and then" sequence, repair the story connection before polishing sentences. The causal relationship must be present in the events; the manuscript need not use the literal words "therefore" or "but". Preserve purposeful quiet consequences and intentional delayed revelation. + +Ground action in concrete perceptions and decisions. Make dialogue purposeful through competing wants, omissions and subtext; distinguish speakers by experience and register, using their voice cards. Use action and reaction to show emotional change, with direct telling when it is clearer or deliberately part of the voice. Avoid explanatory lines that merely repeat what the scene already conveyed. + +Choose rhythm for the moment. Preserve deliberate fragments, repeated motifs, figurative language, humor, dialect and silence. Notice generic emphasis, repeated sentence scaffolds, indiscriminate sensory lists, interchangeable banter and tidy moral conclusions. Repair them in context rather than using a banned-word list or a rigid ratio of dialogue to description. + +When humor depends on misunderstanding, track each participant's intended meaning and the reader's evidence for the difference; escalation must change the situation, not merely repeat the joke louder. For a shift into drama, establish the vulnerability and allow consequences to remain after a joke. A concrete gift, task or repair can carry both practical and emotional change. These are optional craft hypotheses, not a mandatory scene formula. A quiet ending may close a relational question without adding danger. + +For recurring comedy, powerful protagonists, unequal experienced time, changing self-perception, unequal romantic power, chosen rituals, resumed happy endings, viewpoint replays or transitions into drama, use the relevant questions in [serial scene review](references/serial-scene-review.md). Keep established consequences and information limits visible; the reference is optional, not a mandatory scene structure. + +For danger, pursuit, combat or rescue scenes, use [action sequences](references/action-sequences.md) when tactical change, spatial orientation or surviving consequences need attention. These are provisional lenses, not a required fight formula. + +## Named method defaults + +These names let a draft note or a voice review point at one default. They apply where the voice sheet and the voice cards are silent; a clause of the sheet or a card always wins, and a recorded deliberate exception is not a defect. A review that relies on one of them labels the finding "method default, not sheet". + +| Name | Default | +| --- | --- | +| Causal beats | Consequential beats connect through consequence or complication, not "and then" (rule #1). | +| Viewpoint-bound attention | Attention, vocabulary, judgment and knowledge come from the viewpoint; the narrator knows more only where the narration permits it. | +| Held narration | Tense, distance and the rules for viewpoint changes stay as agreed within the unit. | +| Grounded action | Action rests on concrete perceptions and decisions. | +| Purposeful dialogue | Each speaker wants, assumes or withholds something; affection and play count as purposes. | +| Distinct speakers | Speakers differ by experience and register, not by a swapped vocabulary or a catchphrase. | +| No redundant explanation | No line merely repeats what the scene already conveyed; direct telling stays where it is clearer or part of the voice. | +| Rhythm for the moment | Sentence and paragraph length serve this moment; no fixed ratio, no uniform scaffold. | +| Preserved devices | Deliberate fragments, repeated motifs, figurative language, humor, dialect and silence stay. | +| World-true detail | New detail belongs to this world and this viewpoint; nothing is added as fact merely to make prose vivid. | + +There is no banned-word list and no universal style standard behind these names. + +## Revision + +For revision, fix causal structure and character motivation before line polish. Read for paragraph movement, spatial clarity, speaker identity and the emotional turn. Check that new detail belongs to this world and viewpoint; do not add scientific facts or accepted history merely to make prose vivid. Revise accepted prose only within the scope the author authorized. + +## After the prose + +Keep manuscript prose separate from editorial notes: nothing but prose in a prose file or under `## Manuscript`. After the prose, create or update a proposed canon delta and chapter summary with source locations, in the chapter card or, for a short piece, outside the manuscript heading. Record in `voice_revision` the voice sheet revision the unit was drafted under; acceptance confirms or updates it (see voice and tone). Route canon problems through `story-canon-review` and questions about whether the unit sounds like its sheet through `story-voice-review`. A draft invention does not automatically become accepted canon. + +State the review scope and unresolved dependencies; never claim detector-proof or objectively human authorship. A chapter is complete when a canon review exists at a named revision and the author's acceptance is recorded; that is an author decision, and this skill does not declare it. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks, template integrity or an export. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-drafting/references/action-sequences.md b/skills/story-drafting/references/action-sequences.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fc3727 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-drafting/references/action-sequences.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Action sequences: changing options under pressure + +Use for a scene whose intended effect depends on danger, pursuit, combat or rescue. These are provisional editorial lenses, initially from the first 25 entries of the studied work and refined against selected evidence through entry 275; after the complete reading (1016 of 1016 entries) the method was left unchanged, and later observations remain in private study notes. They are not a whole-work conclusion or a mandate for violent fiction. Choose the lens that exposes an actual weakness; existing viewpoint, humor and power questions remain in [serial scene review](serial-scene-review.md). + +Provenance: own analysis from a private study of an existing work; the private study notes are not distributed. See the [source index](../../../shared/story/sources.md#study-derived-references). + +## Readable change, not a movement transcript + +At a consequential turn, let the reader recover the immediate objective, the useful spatial relationship and the option that just changed. A complete map is unnecessary. An exit matters differently when the opponent targets it instead of the fleeing person. After a vehicle, terrain or viewpoint transition, restore the relationship needed for the next choice before adding more spectacle. + +Track action as a response to information: intention, attempt, observed result, revised choice. Do not require this sequence in every paragraph. A confusing surprise may be intentional, but the eventual explanation must fit what occurred. With restricted perception, keep the observed change and its immediate consequence intelligible even while the cause or overall plan stays hidden. Plant the clues the eventual explanation needs; the reader need not see every attack. Damage earns narrative weight when it changes work, mobility, trust or available time; visible wounds alone need not create a tactical reversal. + +## Progress can coexist with deterioration + +For a rescue or delaying action, distinguish the success condition from defeating the enemy. Track progress toward that condition against the resource or protective boundary being consumed. Numbers are optional: a shortening queue and a failing door may be clearer than countdowns. Establish why additional time cannot simply be obtained; a repeated deadline with no consequence becomes decoration. + +Replenishment does not automatically remove limits. Where the world supports it, throughput, heat, access, coordination or recovery time may matter. Use established limits rather than inventing a convenient failure mid-climax. When damaged equipment or an impaired ability returns in a later scene, preserve its established limitation until repair, replacement or another recovery explains the change. The limitation may shift from fighting to transport, search or rescue. A cost-free victory can be an intentional pleasure; do not punish every competent act. + +For coordinated action, one optional question is: if several participants achieve their local objectives, what does their combined result do to the group's ability to continue? + +## Allocate time and keep the emotional residue + +Expand the decision or perception that changes the scene; compress exchanges whose outcome adds no new choice. Short sentences are not a universal speed control. A longer causal sentence can carry rapid linked movement, while a pause can make one second feel long. Inspect what remains at each paragraph ending: a short following paragraph can isolate a changed perception or consequence. Short paragraphs without a meaningful change do not automatically accelerate a scene. Keep spatially dependent movements connected. + +Ask what a joke does here: steadies someone, covers fear, attacks authority, signals intimacy or exposes cruelty. An earlier comic detail can later carry pain, but repetition alone does not earn that change. Let the chosen consequence survive the cut to another viewpoint or the next scene. Restoration may solve bodily damage while leaving a different cost, if the story establishes it. When a protector also threatens or coerces the person they help, assess help and intimidation separately. Rescue establishes an action, not automatic trust; let the recipient's response reflect what they experienced. Their interpretation can still be mistaken. + +## Revision check + +Before cutting, identify the intended interest: survival, execution, a decision to use force, or a changed interpretation. A predictable victory may still reward attention to its execution. Compress repetition according to that promise, rather than adding artificial danger. + +Ask a reader to identify the current objective, the turn that changed the available options and the consequence that remains. For spatial action, also ask where the next useful exit, obstacle or protected person is. A disagreement diagnoses a specific clarity problem; it is not a universal quality score. Keep source observations, original exercises and reader-tested results separate. + +Research scope: see the provenance entry in the [source index](../../../shared/story/sources.md#study-derived-references); the transfer notes and the original exercise are private and not distributed. Revisit these candidates when a new study or story pilot supplies evidence; retain counterexamples. diff --git a/skills/story-drafting/references/serial-scene-review.md b/skills/story-drafting/references/serial-scene-review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a1501e --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-drafting/references/serial-scene-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +# Reviewing a scene inside a long serial + +Use these questions when a scene is readable on its own but its relationship to earlier or later chapters is weak. These are provisional editorial heuristics from reference-fiction study, not a recipe for a particular author's voice. Apply only the lenses that expose a real decision. + +Provenance: own analysis from private studies of existing works; see the [source index](../../../shared/story/sources.md#study-derived-references); the private study notes are not distributed. + +## Repetition with a changed meaning + +For a returning joke, ritual, object or line, identify what the reader already recognizes and what changes this time: the speaker, target, authority, cost, information or relationship. If nothing changes, decide whether the repetition deliberately provides comfort or rhythm. Do not manufacture escalation merely to make every callback bigger. + +A joke's target and the person who pays for it may differ. Check how the viewpoint frames that difference. A scene can intentionally reveal cruelty, denial or bias; do not automatically endorse the viewpoint or flatten it into a moral lesson. If injury, humiliation or deprivation disappears immediately after the punchline, make that a deliberate tonal choice rather than a forgotten consequence. + +## Powerful characters still make choices + +Separate the ability to win from the ability to get what the character wants. Test the relevant constraint: precision, access, time, incomplete information, cooperation, material supply, collateral cost or willingness. Use established constraints before inventing a stronger enemy or disabling a power without preparation. + +When a plan succeeds, name any changed obligation, damaged resource or relationship that should survive the scene. Record only consequences actually established or deliberately proposed; success need not always be punished. A subsequent chapter may show repair, recognition or rest rather than another disaster. + +## Viewpoint earns its place + +Before replaying an event through another viewpoint, identify the new contribution: access to a missing action, a different interpretation, a hidden cost or a revised expectation. A full replay is unnecessary when a short reaction supplies that contribution. + +Keep attention and vocabulary rooted in the observer's experience. Expertise can make a character notice a contradiction without knowing its solution. Access to another person's thoughts reveals those thoughts, not objective truth. An official form establishes what was recorded; it does not automatically establish identity, ancestry or motive. + +## Explanation arrives where it matters + +Connect a world rule to the current choice, limitation, bargain or misunderstanding. A later demonstration can test an earlier explanation. Distinguish the stated rule, the observed result and the observer's inference; preserve disagreement when the story needs it. + +Exposition can also provide atmosphere, pleasure or orientation. Do not force every fact into conflict. Scale scene time to the significance of the change: routine may be compressed, while the moment a familiar object acquires personal meaning may deserve space. + +## Turning toward drama + +Identify the vulnerability that makes the new threat matter, the event that activates it, and the immediate choice. Check whether the transition reinterprets earlier comedy coherently or abruptly changes the story's contract. Let recovery and changed behavior occupy enough space for the intended emotional effect. + +An emotional resolution need not settle the practical problem, and a practical rescue need not settle fear, guilt or trust. Track those outcomes separately. A character's explanation for harmful conduct may clarify motivation without making the conduct admirable. + +## Unequal clocks and uneven competence + +When perception, computation, lifespan or recovery differ from ordinary time, distinguish elapsed public time, experienced time and physical response. Let the relevant difference affect a choice, fatigue, isolation or intimacy; a speed multiplier alone does not convey experience. Fast thought does not imply fast movement, complete knowledge or sound judgment. Avoid using accelerated mental development to erase a child's physical age or dependency. + +An impressive ability can move the conflict into permission, trust, maintenance or governance. If an institution has safeguards, distinguish the stated rule from who can exploit, enforce or evade it. A successful test certifies what was tested, not every moral quality of the officeholder. These are optional constraints, not a requirement that every competent institution secretly be corrupt. + +## Revisiting a self-description + +If a character repeatedly describes themself in a way their behavior complicates, vary the evidence rather than repeat the label. Another viewpoint, bodily response, practical care or consequential choice can alter the reader's interpretation. Preserve the character's particular attention and diction as they change; growth need not arrive as an articulate confession. Do not infer a real psychiatric diagnosis from a fictional pattern. + +## Reciprocity and chosen rituals + +For an affectionate relationship with unequal power, ask what each person can meaningfully choose, refuse or contribute. Practical care, attention and social judgment can matter without making abilities equal. A protective act may still override the recipient's wishes; distinguish being safe from having a say. This lens is useful when writing intended mutual affection, not a requirement that every fictional relationship be healthy. + +Distinguish a necessary action from a ritual the characters want to keep. If a practical need disappears, a freely expressed wish can preserve the intimacy without pretending the need still exists. Do not explain away every romantic convention; clarify the distinction when it changes consent, trust or a choice. + +When a serial resumes after a happy ending, record which promise was fulfilled and which new question is opening. A new life stage can create conflict while preserving earned trust. If that trust changes, give the change its own cause rather than silently resetting the relationship for plot fuel. + +## Preparing the actual ending + +Compare the conflict that receives the most repeated anticipation with the question the ending actually answers. If a spectacular external problem gives way to a quieter personal resolution, prepare that shift through consequential choices before the climax. A late explanation alone may not repay the earlier promise. This is a diagnostic for mismatched expectations, not a preference for quiet endings; an action promise may need an action payoff. + +When a powerful protagonist begins delegating, identify what another character can decide, which resources they control, and when intervention will occur. Let an accepted decision have consequences the protagonist does not silently erase. Delegation may remain unequal or fail; independence is neither automatic moral growth nor proof of healthy leadership. + +## Test a revision + +Choose one observable question before revising: can a reader identify the two meanings, follow the action spatially, state the surviving cost, or distinguish character belief from demonstrated fact? Compare the original and revision on that question. Keep other features stable enough to interpret the result. Self-review catches obvious defects; independent readers provide a different kind of evidence. Neither establishes universal literary quality. diff --git a/skills/story-drafting/references/story-and-prose-quality.md b/skills/story-drafting/references/story-and-prose-quality.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..835a38b --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-drafting/references/story-and-prose-quality.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Story quality and prose quality + +Use when evaluating a premise, pilot or revision. These are provisional editorial questions from a four-work comparison, not a universal scoring model. Distinguish the intended reader experience from the author's taste and from defects such as broken causality. A pleasant domestic scene and a thriller sequence need different rhythms. + +Provenance: own comparative analysis from private studies of existing works; the private study notes are not distributed. See the [source index](../../../shared/story/sources.md#study-derived-references). + +## Story: desire, choice, consequence + +Start with [storytelling rule #1](../../../shared/story/rules.md#1-storytelling-rule-therefore--but): can the major beats be linked through "therefore" consequences or "but" complications and responses? Locate any transition that is merely "and then" and identify the missing motivation or consequence before sentence-level revision. This is a check on the events, not a connective-word quota. + +Ask what someone wants here, what prevents an easy outcome, what they choose and what remains changed. Powerful characters can lack information, trust, access, judgment or belonging without secretly losing their established abilities. Supporting characters need consequential choices when the story presents them as agents; admiration alone is not development. + +A scene may do external and relational work together: solving a practical problem can change trust or obligation. This is an opportunity, not a quota. Rest, atmosphere and shared pleasure can themselves fulfill the chosen promise. Judge quiet passages by their purpose rather than a mandatory conflict count. + +Trace a distinctive world feature through lived consequence. A new power, institution or species should change possibilities, expectations or perception somewhere meaningful. Avoid demanding that every decorative detail justify a plot turn. Keep the intended ending visible through the choices that matter along the way. + +## Prose: attention, meaning, duration + +Before polishing, name viewpoint, immediate intention and intended effect. Select details through this observer's knowledge and values. Different voices notice and misjudge different things; a vocabulary swap alone does not individualize them. + +Check whether the reader can locate action, identify speakers and understand references without resolving a deliberate mystery. Use precise nouns and verbs when they clarify; retain abstraction or indirectness when the narrator deliberately uses it. Do not enforce short sentences, sensory quotas or “show, never tell.” + +Use sentence and paragraph length to allocate experienced time. Compression can carry routine; a decisive small reaction may deserve space. A short response after a longer explanation can change interpretation, but copying the rhythm everywhere makes it predictable. + +Distinguish a revealing narrator comment from a redundant explanation. Temporarily remove the comment and inspect what becomes unclear or newly ambiguous; restore it when it contributes voice, orientation or a necessary reading. Do not automatically delete all explicit emotion. + +For dialogue, identify what each participant seeks, assumes and withholds. Affection, reassurance and shared play count as purposes. Preserve subtext only when the reader has enough evidence to perceive it; unexplained vagueness is not depth. + +## Revision and feedback + +First repair missing motivation, causal jumps and mismatched promises. Then adjust scene order, emphasis and information. Polish diction and rhythm after those changes, and verify canon consistency before accepting new facts. + +Select one or two concrete reader questions for the current pass. Compare an original and revision against those questions without calling a deliberately weak contrast an unbiased improvement test. Record author feedback separately from model judgments. A clean rubric, a preferred sample and a successful pilot establish different things; none alone proves novel-length quality. + +For recurring humor, power constraints, tonal shifts and ending preparation, use the existing [serial scene reference](serial-scene-review.md). The research basis and its counterexamples are private study notes and are not distributed; the works are named in the [source index](../../../shared/story/sources.md#study-derived-references). When a manuscript question is about whether the prose matches its voice sheet, that is a voice review against [voice and tone](../../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md), not a use of these lenses. diff --git a/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md b/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b849ce --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +name: story-voice-review +description: "Use when a drafted chapter, short piece or chapter range of a story vault must be judged against that story's voice sheet and character voice cards, including author or beta-reader feedback on how the prose sounds. Reports findings and never edits accepted prose. Not for canon or chronology checks, for drafting or revising prose, or for a general style check. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story voice review + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session. + +This skill is experimental. It reviews manuscript in a vault of kind story only. Read [voice and tone](../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md), the story's `00-project/voice.md`, the voice cards of the characters who speak in scope, and the [review template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md). The report is a working note; the reply about it stays reader-oriented. + +## Preconditions + +Decline and route to the voice trial, pass E of [guided development](../../shared/story/story-development.md), when the sheet references fewer than two anchor passages or its tone palette is empty. A thin sheet gives nothing to judge against, and this skill does not substitute a taste of its own. Say which entries are missing. An anchor may be a trial passage the author chose, referenced by voice trial record and revision; it counts like an anchor from an accepted chapter. + +## Scope + +Name the exact prose files or `## Manuscript` sections, their revisions, the voice sheet revision and the voice cards used. A chapter accepted under an earlier sheet revision is judged against that revision. Read the anchor passages, trial passages included, at their recorded revisions as comparison points, not as phrases to find again. + +## Findings + +Read for the narration contract of each viewpoint, the tone palette with its excursions and returns, the language conventions, the paratext register, and each speaker against their voice card, including the author-set tic cap when it is set. + +Every finding cites the passage, with file and location, and one basis: + +- a clause of the voice sheet or of a character voice card, or +- a named default from [story drafting](../story-drafting/SKILL.md), labelled "method default, not sheet". + +Drop an observation that has neither. There is no banned-word list and no universal style standard; a fragment, a repetition or a joke is a finding only where the sheet or a card says so. + +Class each finding as one of: + +| Class | Meaning | +| --- | --- | +| Unintended deviation | The passage departs from a clause, and nothing records the departure as wanted | +| Deliberate exception | The departure matches a recorded exception, or the author confirms it; propose recording it | +| Sheet gap | The sheet or card is silent on a choice the passage had to make | +| Candidate sheet change | A recurring pattern suggests the author may prefer to change the sheet | + +## Outcome + +Write the findings into the voice review section of a review note. Do not edit accepted prose; a repair is a separate drafting request. A sheet change is the author's recorded decision and creates a new sheet revision; never change the sheet to make a review pass. Facts, chronology and knowledge belong to `story-canon-review`. + +Finish with scope, revisions, findings by class, open author decisions and limits. A voice review does not accept a chapter; acceptance is the author's decision. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as links or template integrity. diff --git a/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md b/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..287fef5 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +name: story-worldbuilding +description: "Use when a fictional world for a story must be developed or extended: its history, species, cultures, factions, distinctive mechanisms and pre-story causes, in fantasy or science fiction, with causal consistency against accepted canon. Not for chapter prose, or for real-world factual claims without research. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story worldbuilding + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +World notes are working notes: plain notes that follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. + +For technically grounded fiction, read [science and institutions](references/science-and-institutions.md) when capability limits, scientific claims or institutional consequences affect the plot. + +Read [rules](../../shared/story/rules.md) and the selected vault's brief, accepted world notes, timeline and relevant plot dependencies. Consult the [source index](../../shared/story/sources.md) only for the needed craft question; craft notes are not story facts. + +Work through applicable categories: physical setting and ecology; magic/technology; species and peoples; institutions and factions; beliefs, language and daily life; history; necessary pre-story interactions; distinctive mechanisms. Record irrelevant or deliberately open categories rather than inventing filler. + +For a distinctive feature trace its mechanism, limits, access, costs and consequences through ordinary life and a concrete character choice. In fantasy, consider magic's effect on labor, authority and conflict. In science fiction, consider energy, habitats, transit, communication, maintenance and biological constraints. Mark speculative departures and research real claims separately. + +Separate biology from culture, citizenship, faction and individual personality. Show variation and disagreement. For contact between groups, identify what each needs, fears, knows and misreads; do not reduce a species to a moral alignment. + +Write history as event → participants → outcomes → persistent consequences. Store chronological position separately from reveal order. Label competing in-world accounts and narrator beliefs. For pre-story interactions, show why the opening situation exists and which characters know each cause. + +Create or extend readable notes using the relevant [vault templates](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/world-entry.md). Link dependencies and record a proposed canon change. Before changing accepted history, inspect downstream character knowledge, locations and promised revelations. Keep uncertain details provisional; escalate a published retcon as an author decision. + +The work is done for this request when the world slice supports its story purpose, has no unresolved contradiction with cited accepted notes, and names remaining gaps. It does not mean the whole world is finished, and new material remains proposed until the author accepts it. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command, such as link checks or template integrity. + +Status: experimental. This skill has not been piloted on a story and makes no claim about reader effect. diff --git a/skills/story-worldbuilding/references/science-and-institutions.md b/skills/story-worldbuilding/references/science-and-institutions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b74a07 --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-worldbuilding/references/science-and-institutions.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +# Scientific claims and institutional consequences + +Use for technically grounded fiction or a research-heavy novel study. This is this method's provisional craft synthesis; technical plausibility and literary effectiveness are different claims. + +Provenance: own analysis from private studies of existing works; the private study notes are not distributed. See the [source index](../../../shared/story/sources.md#study-derived-references). + +## Separate four layers + +For a load-bearing concept record the fictional claim and exact passage, the real mechanism and primary source, the invented departure, and its consequences for characters. Preserve publication date, story date and research date. A later invention may be a useful comparison without proving historical availability. + +Label a narrator statement, character hypothesis, advertised result, measured result and analyst inference differently. A quoted success percentage needs its task, sample and measurement boundary before it becomes a capability. Fast replies do not establish consciousness; absence of a detected signal does not establish absence of every process. Explain only the distinction relevant to the scene. + +Keep mixed fiction/science cards inside the story or study vault they belong to; where a memory or retrieval tool is used, they stay in that vault's scope under the [retrieval contract](../../../shared/story/retrieval.md). Only separately written, attributed general technical notes belong in the general craft scope. Include inspected source scope and unresolved assumptions. A source-backed mechanism does not certify the whole fictional device. An inaccessible primary source leaves the claim open. + +## Make a capability consequential + +Trace capability → required resource/access → responsible institution → local incentive → action → downstream cost. Ask where someone must grant access, maintain hardware, believe a message, tolerate an outage or honor a contract. Ordinary competent work can create unintended consequences without turning every employee into an idiot. + +A fictional power needs relevant boundaries, not an exhaustive engineering specification. Show maintenance, time, coordination and ownership when they create meaningful options. If physical realism is not the chosen contract, preserve the agreed speculative rule instead of interrupting every scene with correction. + +## Build reversals from a limited model + +Record what a test actually observes and what the characters infer. Prepare a meaningful missing dependency before using it to undo a victory. The reader need not predict the reversal, but should be able to reconstruct its cause. Do not invent an unlimited hidden backup whenever a protagonist succeeds. + +When public benefit conflicts with private harm, identify who chooses, who benefits, who pays and who can refuse. Different characters may support the same outcome for different reasons. Neither a benefit ledger nor a final sinister image settles every ethical question automatically. + +## Separate capacity from active attention + +For a distributed or nonhuman mind, distinguish available sensors, stored information, active attention and authority to act. When an important signal is missed, locate the failure in that chain: a queue, an interpretation, a competing task or a decision to defer. Prepare the relevant selection rule before relying on it. This creates a specific blind spot without silently reducing established intelligence. Avoid turning every mind into a computer scheduler; use the equivalent boundary appropriate to the premise. + +For unequal experienced time, use the [existing scene questions](../../story-drafting/references/serial-scene-review.md#unequal-clocks-and-uneven-competence). At the institutional level, additionally ask whose response interval sets a deadline and what silence means to each party. A timeout may exclude a willing participant or falsely suggest refusal. If cooperation matters, give the institution a plausible way to acknowledge waiting, preserve a proposal or appoint a proxy; do not assume faster participants are automatically wiser or slower ones helpless. + +## Follow a decision through delivery + +When a settlement promises a functioning service, distinguish authorization, implementation and the recipient's observed result. Find the relevant remaining dependency: missing interface knowledge, trained operators, a retained bargaining advantage or disagreement among implementers. Show the dependency that changes the next choice, rather than inventing a mandatory obstacle after every agreement. A well-prepared institution may deliver immediately; then let the successful delivery change trust or available options. + +## Check who can answer the ending + +When an ending grants forgiveness, assigns blame or celebrates recovery after institutional harm, compare the speaking cast with the groups whose interests the story previously made legible. An absent group cannot automatically be treated as consenting, compensated or morally irrelevant. Choose whether the ending acknowledges that limit, supplies a surviving trace or leaves the issue deliberately unresolved. This is a viewpoint-coverage check, not a requirement for a new viewpoint or a courtroom scene; a deliberately partial or unreliable ending may preserve the exclusion. When a victorious protagonist repeats an antagonist's coercive action, temporarily compare the actions without names or celebratory framing: whose options were removed, what consent existed, and what relevant circumstances differed? Restore those differences before judging. The comparison tests narrative favoritism; it does not imply that superficially similar acts have identical motives, stakes or moral weight. + +## Give an unfamiliar capability a usable representation + +When a character must act inside an unfamiliar system, distinguish reducing information speed from changing how options are represented. A familiar craft can make a choice legible if its operations map onto the new task: what corresponds to an action, what feedback indicates its effect, and where the analogy stops working. Demonstrate one decision changed by that mapping. A useful representation does not itself supply missing access, knowledge or physical power; establish those separately. Avoid importing an entire specialist vocabulary when a plain action would be clearer. + +If a change in embodiment or cognition motivates a formal viewpoint shift, choose the smallest device that conveys the change: pronouns, sensory range, sentence organization or narrative distance. Retain an identifiable person, unfinished choice or physical sensation across the transition, unless temporary disorientation is intentional. Test whether the reader can identify whose experience continues and what the new form reveals that the old one could not. A changed capability need not require changed grammar; formal novelty is not proof of transformed consciousness. + +## Preserve provenance when a person returns + +When copying, resurrection, memory repair or reconstruction carries an emotional payoff, record the source state, missing interval, later divergence and any filled-in material for each relevant person. Distinguish a technically functioning return, the returned person's self-understanding and another character's acceptance. A reunion can succeed relationally while remaining incomplete informationally; do not silently convert recognition into proof that nothing was lost. Prepare the specific limitation before making it decisive, unless the work deliberately withholds it. This is an internal consistency aid, not a demand to settle metaphysical identity or expose every reconstruction detail to readers. A premise of exact magical restoration may simply honor that promise. + +## Carry an escalation across different observers + +For a consequential chain involving opposed institutions, track the initiating act, the signal visible elsewhere, its interpretation and the authorized response. A viewpoint change earns causal work when it shows how the same event acquires a different operational meaning. Locate the missing or misleading information, and ask whether an available clarification would realistically arrive in time; avoid keeping conflict alive only because competent characters inexplicably refuse an easy conversation. Preserve deliberate aggression and differing values where they matter: not every escalation is a misunderstanding, and better information need not produce agreement. Show only the handoff that changes the next choice, rather than replaying every event in full. + +## Unbundle a capability from its imposed restrictions + +When a pivotal world rule blocks a choice, distinguish the physical mechanism, a genuine system dependency, an institutional restriction and a character's assumption about necessity. A useful reversal can preserve a capability while changing a restriction, if earlier effects gave the reader grounds to understand that separation. Do not reveal a convenient removable switch for a limit previously established as intrinsic. Some worlds deliberately make the rule indivisible; respect that contract. This is a selective design check for consequential constraints, not a requirement to explain every mechanism. + +## Research before asking the author + +Resolve factual questions from suitable primary sources. Ask the author when a decision changes the chosen plausibility contract, a pivotal outcome or accepted canon: preserve an inaccurate source-world rule, deliberately depart from it, or choose a different mechanism. Offer concrete consequences, retain prior answers, and continue independent work. Do not ask permission for routine source checking or silently turn a proposed correction into canon. diff --git a/skills/terminology-guard/SKILL.md b/skills/terminology-guard/SKILL.md index 975927b..0d16f91 100644 --- a/skills/terminology-guard/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/terminology-guard/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: terminology-guard -description: "Use as a supporting skill when a document or documentation set must use one term per concept: create or extend the glossary before new terms appear, check drafts for banned variants and undefined terms, and align wording with interface labels. Not for choosing content structure, writing the text itself, or code identifiers." +description: "Use as a supporting skill when a document or documentation set must use one term per concept: create or extend the glossary before new terms appear, check drafts for banned variants and undefined terms, and align wording with interface labels. Not for choosing content structure, writing the text itself, or code identifiers. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Terminology Guard @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ an inline definition list when more than a handful of terms recur. using the terms this skill fixes. - Code identifiers, API names and command syntax, which stay exactly as implemented and are quoted in code formatting. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Glossary authority diff --git a/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md b/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md index 4d0e6ed..e456fb5 100644 --- a/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: tutorial-video-scripting -description: "Use when a narrated tutorial video must be scripted from source material: a video that teaches a concept or walks through a procedure for one named audience. Writes the script with chapters, scenes, narration lines written for listening, sources and the pronunciation list, and runs the automatic script check until it passes. Not for producing or rendering the video (use presentation-video-production), reviewing a finished video (use presentation-video-review), marketing or social clips, filmed material or screen recordings, or written documentation." +description: "Use when a narrated tutorial video must be scripted from source material: a video that teaches a concept or walks through a procedure for one named audience. Writes the script with chapters, scenes, narration lines written for listening, sources and the pronunciation list, and runs the automatic script check until it passes. Not for producing or rendering the video (use presentation-video-production), reviewing a finished video (use presentation-video-review), marketing or social clips, filmed material or screen recordings, or written documentation. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Tutorial Video Scripting @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ audience, or for a change to the content of an existing one. `presentation-video-review`. - Marketing or social clips, filmed material, screen recordings. - A written guide on the same subject; use `documentation-authoring`. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Consumes diff --git a/skills/writing-procedures/SKILL.md b/skills/writing-procedures/SKILL.md index 5a34892..97549d8 100644 --- a/skills/writing-procedures/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/writing-procedures/SKILL.md @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ --- name: writing-procedures -description: "Use when a reader must perform actions: installation, configuration, operation, or any how-to steps in documentation or an ordinary reply. Produces numbered imperative steps, one action each, exact locations named, three to five steps per block, and a check that it worked. Not for conceptual explanation, reference tables, or diagnosing a failure." +description: "Use when a reader must perform actions: installation, configuration, operation, or any how-to steps in documentation or an ordinary reply. Produces numbered imperative steps, one action each, exact locations named, three to five steps per block, and a check that it worked. Not for conceptual explanation, reference tables, or diagnosing a failure. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Writing Procedures +Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). + Apply the shared [proportionality rule](../../shared/policies/proportionality.md) before adding work, delegating, or repeating verification. @@ -27,6 +29,8 @@ ordinary replies. - Symptom-first help when something has gone wrong; use `empathic-troubleshooting`. - Reference tables of options, fields or commands; link to them from a step. +- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under + [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Chapter pattern diff --git a/templates/story-vault/.obsidian/app.json b/templates/story-vault/.obsidian/app.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0967ef4 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/.obsidian/app.json @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +{} diff --git a/templates/story-vault/.obsidian/community-plugins.json b/templates/story-vault/.obsidian/community-plugins.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe51488 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/.obsidian/community-plugins.json @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +[] diff --git a/templates/story-vault/00-project/brief.md b/templates/story-vault/00-project/brief.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c585908 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/00-project/brief.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +kind: starter +story_id: unset +form: long-form +publication_profile: unset +canon_status: template +--- + +# Story brief + +The frontmatter above is the vault's marker. `kind` is `starter` in this template, `story` once the story is set up, and `study` in an analysis vault for an existing work. `story_id` is set once and never changes. `form` is `long-form` or `short-form`. `publication_profile` is `unset`, `web-serial`, `light-novel` or `both`; it may stay unset until the author decides. + +Prose language and variant: undecided + +Premise and central dramatic question: + +Protagonist desire, central incompatibility and repeatable source of episodes: + +Intended readers and emotional promise: + +Genre and plausibility contract: + +Themes and content boundaries: + +Ending strategy (known, sketched, discovery): + +Target length and planning unit (arcs, volumes, chapters or pieces): undecided; chapter word target undecided. + +Author decisions and open options: see [[00-project/decisions]]. + +Current next step and pending question: see [[00-project/development]]. + +Voice sheet: see [[00-project/voice]]. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/00-project/decisions.md b/templates/story-vault/00-project/decisions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8364a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/00-project/decisions.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Author decisions + +Record consequential choices, not every prop or adjective. Keep accepted facts separate from provisional invention. The working agreement below may delegate routine choices; do not ask again inside that scope. + +Acceptance and delegation agreement: + +| ID | Decision and alternatives | Status | Author statement or delegation basis | Reason / consequence | Affected artifacts | Supersedes | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +Statuses: proposed, accepted, superseded. A pending question remains proposed. Preserve evidence of author choice; do not invent quotation text or promote a suggestion because no answer arrived. For changes to accepted or published text, record the affected dependencies and agreed revision scope. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/00-project/development.md b/templates/story-vault/00-project/development.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a35e31 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/00-project/development.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Development state + +Current pass and actual manuscript coverage: + +Known reader promise and delegated choices: + +Current usable artifact and source paths: + +Next action and required dependencies: + +Pending consequential question (with options and practical consequences): + +Work that can proceed while the answer is pending: + +Latest author feedback and the specific revision it motivates: + +Next review point: + +Maintain this note from the conversation. An unanswered question is not acceptance; a proposed option is not canon. Resume from existing artifacts rather than repeating the interview. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/00-project/retrieval.md b/templates/story-vault/00-project/retrieval.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d46e8b --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/00-project/retrieval.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Retrieval record + +This note is optional. If a memory or retrieval tool is available in the session, it may hold searchable derivatives of this vault. If no such tool exists, leave this note unused; nothing else in the vault depends on it. + +The vault is the authority. A retrieved result is advisory: it locates a passage, and the file in this vault at its current revision decides. + +Scope: the Git root of this vault, and nothing outside it. Do not search other projects for canon. + +Do not index this starter before it has been set up as a story. Index accepted material only; a draft that is indexed must be labelled as a draft. + +Every derivative carries the source path inside this vault and the source revision. When the source note changes, refresh the derivative or mark it stale here. + +| Note ID | Source path | Revision/hash | Canon state | Derivative ID | Synced at | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/00-project/voice.md b/templates/story-vault/00-project/voice.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4981848 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/00-project/voice.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +--- +kind: starter +story_id: unset +canon_status: template +voice_revision: V0 +viewpoint: unset +tense: unset +distance: unset +--- + +# Voice sheet + +This sheet decides how the manuscript of this story sounds. `V0` means no accepted voice exists yet. The voice trial produces `V1`; every later revision is an author decision recorded in the change log below and in [[00-project/decisions]]. Drafting needs `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` set in the frontmatter above; while one of them is `unset`, run the voice trial first. + +## Narration contract per viewpoint + +The frontmatter holds the contract of the main narration. Add one row for each viewpoint the story uses. + +| Viewpoint (character ID or narrator) | Viewpoint type | Tense | Distance | Permitted shifts and where they may occur | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +Narrator vocabulary, attention and judgment: + +What the narration may know that the viewpoint character does not: + +## Tone palette + +Baseline tone: + +| Permitted excursion | Trigger | Return to baseline | +| --- | --- | --- | + +Excluded tones (what the reader promise rules out): + +## Language conventions + +Prose language and variant: + +Dialogue and thought punctuation: + +Names, honorifics, invented terms and untranslated words: + +Numbers, units, dates and emphasis: + +Rhythm, humor and metaphor: + +## Anchor passages + +Two to four accepted passages that show this voice doing its work. Reference each by chapter ID or voice trial record, and by accepted revision; do not copy the text here. The trial passages the author chose are the first anchors: they are voice references, not canon or manuscript, and accepted chapter passages replace or supplement them later. An anchor is a reference for comparison, not a phrase bank. + +| Anchor | Chapter ID or trial record | Accepted revision | Passage location | What it demonstrates | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Deliberate exceptions + +| Exception | Where it applies | Intended effect | Decision ID | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Paratext register + +Afterword and author note: + +Blurb: + +Other front and back matter: + +## Voice trial record + +Author-owned sample passages and preferences: + +Trial passage (where it is kept and its revision), intended effect and the author's response: + +What would make this voice feel generic: + +Concrete revision examples: what changed and why (not a signature phrase bank): + +## Change log + +Chapters keep the revision they were accepted under. A new revision does not reopen accepted chapters unless the author decides so. + +| Revision | Date | What changed | Decision ID | Applies from chapter | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/01-world/overview.md b/templates/story-vault/01-world/overview.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb590cb --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/01-world/overview.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# World overview + +Physical setting and scale: + +Geography, habitats and ecology: + +Magic or technology and its boundaries: + +Distinctive features and consequences for daily life: + +Institutions, economy, communication and travel: + +Open questions and linked world entries: diff --git a/templates/story-vault/02-history/timeline.md b/templates/story-vault/02-history/timeline.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dda0afe --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/02-history/timeline.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# History and pre-story causes + +Calendar and epoch: undecided. Record chronology separately from chapter reveal order. + +| Event ID | Story time / order | Causes | Participants | Outcome | Present consequence | Known by | Revealed in | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Necessary pre-story interactions + +| Interaction | Earlier cause | Resulting opening condition | Who knows | Source note | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/03-peoples/index.md b/templates/story-vault/03-peoples/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b4c67f --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/03-peoples/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# Species, cultures and factions + +Keep species/biology, ancestry, culture, nationality and political membership separate. + +| Note ID | Kind | Name | Needs and constraints | Internal differences | Contacts | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/04-characters/index.md b/templates/story-vault/04-characters/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10d0071 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/04-characters/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Cast + +| Character ID | Name | Main/supporting role | Current goal | Pressure | Key relationships | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/05-plot/chapters/.gitkeep b/templates/story-vault/05-plot/chapters/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/templates/story-vault/05-plot/spine.md b/templates/story-vault/05-plot/spine.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d0c110 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/05-plot/spine.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Whole-story spine + +Central question: + +Major irreversible changes: + +Character and antagonist trajectories: + +Ending/payoff strategy: + +| Arc ID | Chapter range | Local question | Change | Main-story contribution | Carryover | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Volumes + +A volume is a packaging unit beside the arc; an arc may span volumes. Fill this table only when the publication profile calls for volumes. + +| Volume ID | Chapter range | Arcs covered | Opening effect | Closing effect | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Cross-arc subplots + +Track each subplot separately from arc length. Use stable thread IDs and linked promise notes. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/chapters/.gitkeep b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/chapters/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..958e2da --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Manuscript order + +No manuscript text has been written. Add explicit order here; do not rely on filesystem sorting. The form in [[00-project/brief]] decides which table is used. + +## Long-form chapters + +Each chapter has a prose-only file in `06-manuscript/chapters/` and a chapter card in `05-plot/chapters/`, both named by the chapter ID. + +| Chapter ID | Prose file | Card file | Arc | Volume | POV | Accepted revision | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Paratext + +Afterword, author note and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/`. + +| Item | File | Volume | Accepted revision | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Short-form pieces + +Each piece is one note in `06-manuscript/pieces/`; its prose stands under the heading `## Manuscript`. + +| Piece ID | Note | POV | Accepted revision | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/paratext/.gitkeep b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/paratext/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/pieces/.gitkeep b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/pieces/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/changes.md b/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/changes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d723f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/changes.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# Canon change log + +| Change ID | Proposed fact/revision | Source passage | Affected notes/chapters | Decision | Derivative refresh | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +Preserve prior published versions. Review changes to chronology and knowledge separately from wording edits. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/state.md b/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/state.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e27e63 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/state.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Current story state + +State as of chapter: unset + +| Entity ID | Location | Physical state | Possessions/resources | Knows | Believes incorrectly | Source passage | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +Historical states remain in linked events/chapters. Current state is a derived view, not a replacement for evidence. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/threads.md b/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/threads.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd77085 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/07-continuity/threads.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# Open threads + +| Thread ID | Question/promise | Planted in | Development | Target payoff | Actual payoff | State | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +A planned payoff is not resolved. Link to the accepted passage when closing a thread. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/arc.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/arc.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6cffee8 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/arc.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +id: template-arc +story_id: unset +type: arc +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +target_chapters: null +chapter_start: null +chapter_end: null +--- + +# Arc template + +Set `target_chapters` from the publication profile in the story brief. About 100 chapters per sub-arc is the default for the web-serial profile only; other profiles have no default. + +## Local dramatic question and reader promise + +## Starting conditions and main-story contribution + +## Character and antagonist choices + +## Causal movements and irreversible turns + +## Climax, local resolution and carryover + +## Subplots, setups and payoffs + +## Chapter scope and justified departures + +## Volumes spanned and where the arc crosses a volume boundary + +## Risks and open decisions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter-prose.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter-prose.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..742f285 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter-prose.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +id: template-chapter-prose +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: chapter-prose +--- + +# Chapter title diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11b6a9d --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +id: template-chapter +story_id: unset +type: chapter +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +chapter_number: null +arc_id: null +volume_id: null +pov_id: null +story_time: null +draft_status: planned +prose_file: null +voice_revision: unset +accepted_revision: null +--- + +# Chapter card template + +This card is a working note for one long-form chapter. It lives in `05-plot/chapters/` under the chapter ID. The prose lives in its own file in `06-manuscript/chapters/` under the same ID, created from the chapter prose template. No manuscript text belongs in this card. + +## Context packet: source paths and revisions + +List the voice sheet revision and the voice card of every speaking character beside the other sources. + +## Starting state, place and time + +## Desire, opposition and meaningful change + +## Scene beats and emotional movement + +## Setups, payoffs and ending effect + +## Prose file + +Link the prose file here once it exists, and set `prose_file` in the frontmatter. + +## Summary and proposed canon delta + +## Review findings and acceptance + +Canon review (review note and reviewed revision): + +Voice review (review note and reviewed revision): + +Author acceptance (date, accepted revision, voice sheet revision, decision ID): diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/character.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/character.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7838765 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/character.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +id: template-character +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: character +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +relations: [] +voice_tic_cap: unset +--- + +# Character template + +When creating a real note, set `type` to `character`, remove `template_type`, and replace template identity/status. Loreweaver indexes by `type` and does not exclude templates or proposals by canon status. + +## Identity, species, culture and affiliations + +## Role, concrete want, motive and competing values + +## Distinctive physical and behavioral traits + +## Capabilities, costs and blind spots + +## Voice card + +Fill this section for every character who speaks or whose viewpoint is used. It records how this character sounds; the voice sheet records how the narration sounds. + +Register (formality, sentence length, directness, how it shifts with the listener): + +Habitual attention (what this character notices first and what they overlook): + +Expertise vocabulary (fields they can name precisely, and where that vocabulary came from): + +Limits (what they would not say, cannot articulate or get wrong): + +Verbal tics and the cap on their use (the author sets `voice_tic_cap` in the frontmatter; it stays unset until then): + +Dialogue examples (reference accepted passages by chapter ID and revision; an invented sample stays marked as proposed): + +## Starting knowledge, false beliefs and secrets + +## Relationships, shared history and change over time + +## Development through choices + +## Evidence and open decisions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/event.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/event.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b34dec --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/event.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +id: template-event +story_id: unset +type: event +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +calendar_id: unset +story_time: null +chronology_order: null +revealed_in: null +--- + +# Event template + +## Cause and prerequisites + +## Participants, location and action + +## Immediate result and lasting consequences + +## Who knows, who misremembers and why + +## Conflicting in-world accounts + +## Opening-state or plot dependencies + +## Evidence and revision impact diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/foreshadow.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/foreshadow.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b07d25d --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/foreshadow.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +id: template-foreshadow +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: foreshadow +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +planted_in: null +resolved: false +resolved_in: null +planned_payoff: null +--- + +# Foreshadow template + +When creating a real note, set `type` to `foreshadow`, remove `template_type`, and replace template identity/status. Loreweaver indexes by `type` and does not exclude templates or proposals by canon status. + +## Promise or open question + +## What the reader knows and expects + +## Development and misdirection + +## Actual payoff evidence + +## Dependencies and overdue review diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/location.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/location.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c3cde6 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/location.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +id: template-location +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: location +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +region: "" +description: "" +--- + +# Location template + +On instantiation, change `type` to `location`, remove `template_type` and set the actual ID, story ID and canon status. + +## Region, environment and access + +## Daily life and resources + +## People, organizations and story relevance + diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/organization.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/organization.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c16c361 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/organization.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +id: template-organization +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: organization +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +leader: "" +description: "" +--- + +# Organization template + +On instantiation, change `type` to `organization`, remove `template_type` and set the actual ID, story ID and canon status. + +## Purpose, power and resources + +## Leadership, members and internal disagreement + +## Bases and relationships + diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/people.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/people.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7daef3f --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/people.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +id: template-people +story_id: unset +type: people +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +people_kind: undecided +--- + +# People template + +## Species, ancestry, culture or faction + +## Biology and habitat where relevant + +## Needs, practices and institutions + +## Internal variation and disagreement + +## History, change and contact + +## Relations with other groups + +## Individual exceptions + +## Evidence and open questions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/relationship.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/relationship.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2832184 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/relationship.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +id: template-relationship +story_id: unset +type: relationship +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +from_id: null +to_id: null +valid_from: null +valid_to: null +--- + +# Relationship template + +## Relationship and direction + +## What each party wants and believes + +## Shared pre-story interactions + +## Power, trust, debt and conflict + +## Events that change the relationship + +## Evidence and open questions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51d716b --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +id: template-review +story_id: unset +type: review +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +review_scope: unset +reviewed_revision: unset +voice_revision: unset +--- + +# Review template + +## Files, revisions and checks in scope + +## Confirmed contradictions with both source passages + +## Missing evidence and supported intentional exceptions + +## Craft concerns separate from factual continuity + +## Voice review + +Fill this section only for a voice review. State the voice sheet revision and the character voice cards used. Every finding cites a passage and either a clause of the sheet or a card, or a named default of the drafting skill marked "method default, not sheet". + +| Passage (file and location) | Clause, or "method default, not sheet" | Class | Note | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | + +Classes: unintended deviation, deliberate exception, sheet gap, candidate sheet change. + +## Proposed repairs and downstream impact + +## Applied repairs and fresh recheck + +## Remaining decisions and limits diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/short-piece.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/short-piece.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ff796d --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/short-piece.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +id: template-short-piece +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: short-piece +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +pov_id: null +story_time: null +draft_status: planned +voice_revision: unset +accepted_revision: null +--- + +# Short piece template + +On instantiation, change `type` to `short-piece`, remove `template_type` and set the actual ID, story ID and canon status. Use this template only when the form in the story brief is `short-form`. One note holds one piece. Store the note in `06-manuscript/pieces/` and list it in the manuscript index. + +Only the text under the heading `## Manuscript` is manuscript. That section ends at the next heading of the same level, so the prose itself uses no level-two heading. Everything outside it is a working note. + +## Context packet: source paths and revisions + +List the voice sheet revision and the voice card of every speaking character beside the other sources. + +## Starting state, place and time + +## Desire, opposition and meaningful change + +## Beats and ending effect + +## Manuscript + +## Summary and proposed canon delta + +## Review findings and acceptance + +Canon review (review note and reviewed revision): + +Voice review (review note and reviewed revision): + +Author acceptance (date, accepted revision, voice sheet revision, decision ID): diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/source-card.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/source-card.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25734a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/source-card.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +id: template-source-card +type: template +template_type: source-card +evidence_kind: unset +checked: unset +access: unset +--- + +# Source card template + +On instantiation, change `type` to `source-card`, remove `template_type`, and replace this heading with the title of the source. Set `id` to the source ID used in citations, `evidence_kind` to what the source is (for example a craft essay, an interview, a publisher guideline or your own analysis of a work), `checked` to the date you read it and `access` to how much of it you could read. A source card is not story canon; keep it wherever the author's workspace instructions place craft notes. + +Author or speaker, and publisher: + +Original source (URL or bibliographic reference): + +## Source-supported takeaway + +## Proposed application + +## Limits + +Write an original short note in your own words; do not copy the source. Craft advice is not proof of literary quality. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/term.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/term.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef1e43c --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/term.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +id: template-term +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: term +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +description: "" +--- + +# Term template + +On instantiation, change `type` to `term`, remove `template_type` and set the actual ID, story ID and canon status. + +## Definition and limits + +## Cultural or technical context + +## Examples and story relevance + diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a71f9c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +id: template-volume +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: volume +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +volume_number: unset +chapter_start: unset +chapter_end: unset +target_chapter_count: unset +target_word_count: unset +illustration_count: unset +--- + +# Volume template + +On instantiation, change `type` to `volume`, remove `template_type` and set the actual ID, story ID and canon status. Store the note in `05-plot/` and list it in the spine. + +A volume is a packaging unit beside the arc. An arc may span volumes, and a volume may close inside an arc. Every numeric field above is unset on purpose: this method supplies no figure for volume length, chapter count or illustrations. The author fills each one and names the source card or decision behind it. + +## Chapter range and arcs covered + +## Where arcs cross this volume's boundaries + +## Opening effect and closing effect of the volume + +## Front and back matter + +List each item and its file in `06-manuscript/paratext/`. + +## Illustrations: count, placement and briefs + +## Packaging figures and their sources + +| Figure | Value | Source card or decision ID | +| --- | --- | --- | + +## Risks and open decisions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/world-entry.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/world-entry.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc67415 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/world-entry.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +id: template-world-entry +story_id: unset +type: world-entry +canon_status: template +source_revision: null +--- + +# World Entry template + +## Category and story purpose + +## Mechanism and limits + +## Access, costs and failure modes + +## Consequences for daily life and institutions + +## Ecology, energy or resources + +## Dependencies and linked history + +## Real research versus speculative departures + +## Evidence and open questions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md b/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cea585b --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# Story vault: instructions for agents + +This file is the authority for agents working in this vault. `CLAUDE.md` only imports it. The `story-bootstrap` skill of the Writing Method plugin writes and refreshes both files when it sets up or resumes a vault; put lasting story decisions in `00-project/`, not here. The plugin's story skills are experimental. + +## Which rules govern which text + +Manuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply. + +`README.md`, `START.md`, `AGENTS.md` and `CLAUDE.md` are written for a reader, like a reply. + +## Vault kind + +Read `kind` and `story_id` from the frontmatter of `00-project/brief.md` and `00-project/voice.md`. These two files decide; no other note carries these fields, and a value found in any other note is stale. + +| `kind` | Meaning | What is allowed | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `starter` | The unchanged template | No drafting. Use `story-bootstrap` to set the vault up first. | +| `story` | One story's own vault, with a set `story_id` | Manuscript drafting, once the voice sheet is ready | +| `study` | An analysis vault for an existing work | Study notes only. Never draft against the studied work's canon. | + +Drafting also needs `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` set in the frontmatter of `00-project/voice.md`. While one of them is `unset`, run the voice trial first. + +`story_id` lives only in frontmatter. It is set once and never changes. + +## Form and where manuscript text lives + +`form` in `00-project/brief.md` is `long-form` or `short-form`. + +| Form | Manuscript | Working notes for the same unit | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `long-form` | `06-manuscript/chapters/.md`, prose only. Afterword, author note and blurb in `06-manuscript/paratext/`. | Chapter card in `05-plot/chapters/.md`: context packet, beats, summary, canon delta, review | +| `short-form` | The text under the heading `## Manuscript` of one note per piece in `06-manuscript/pieces/` | Everything outside that heading in the same note | + +Afterword, author note and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/` in both forms. In-world documents, such as a letter, a report or a manual that exists inside the story, are manuscript. `06-manuscript/index.md` gives the order; do not rely on file names. + +`publication_profile` in the brief is `unset`, `web-serial`, `light-novel` or `both`. It may stay unset. The only default the method supplies is about 100 chapters per sub-arc under `web-serial` (see `90-templates/arc.md`); otherwise do not assume lengths, chapter counts or illustration counts for a profile, and use only figures the author has recorded. + +## Before you write + +1. Read `START.md`, then `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md`. Resume from what exists; do not restart the interview. +2. Pick the plugin skill that matches the requested work: `story-bootstrap`, `story-worldbuilding`, `story-characters`, `story-architecture`, `story-drafting`, `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review` or `story-craft-research`. If the plugin is not installed, say so; this file does not replace it. +3. Resolve story paths from this vault's root. + +## Canon and decisions + +This vault owns its manuscript and its accepted canon. Keep proposed, accepted, published and superseded material distinct. Cite the original passages when you report a contradiction. Do not invent story facts to fill a template, and do not treat an unanswered question as acceptance. + +A chapter is complete when a canon review exists at a named revision and the author's acceptance is recorded. That is the author's decision, not the result of a command. This vault has no backlog; its state lives in `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md`. + +## Retrieval + +If a memory or retrieval tool is available, follow `00-project/retrieval.md`: the vault is the authority, a retrieved result is advisory, and the scope is this vault's Git root. If no such tool is available, skip retrieval entirely and read the files. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/CLAUDE.md b/templates/story-vault/CLAUDE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f5745d --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/CLAUDE.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Story vault: Claude Code adapter + +@AGENTS.md + +`AGENTS.md` is the authority for this vault. This file only imports it; change the instructions there. diff --git a/templates/story-vault/START.md b/templates/story-vault/START.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03553b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/START.md @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +# Story vault starter + +This is a reusable template, not a fictional universe. It is part of the experimental story family of the Writing Method plugin. Template notes are not accepted canon and must never be indexed as story facts. + +## Set up a story + +1. Copy this entire folder, including `.obsidian/`, to a new directory of its own outside the plugin. +2. Make the copy its own Git repository. +3. Open a session in the copy and ask for `story-bootstrap`. The skill sets `kind: story`, a unique `story_id`, the form and, if you have decided it, the publication profile in [[00-project/brief|the story brief]], and refreshes [[AGENTS]] and [[CLAUDE]]. +4. Open the copy as a vault in Obsidian if you use it. All notes are ordinary Markdown. This starter installs and enables no community plugins. + +You can tell it worked when the frontmatter of the brief and the voice sheet both show `kind: story` and the same `story_id`. Until then the vault is a starter, and nothing is drafted in it. + +## Notes in this vault + +- [[00-project/brief|Story brief]] and [[00-project/voice|Voice sheet]] +- [[00-project/development|Development state]] and [[00-project/decisions|Author decisions]] +- [[01-world/overview|World overview]] +- [[02-history/timeline|History and pre-story interactions]] +- [[03-peoples/index|Species, cultures and factions]] +- [[04-characters/index|Cast]] +- [[05-plot/spine|Whole-story spine, arcs and volumes]] +- [[06-manuscript/index|Manuscript order]] +- [[07-continuity/state|Current state]], [[07-continuity/threads|Open threads]], [[07-continuity/changes|Canon changes]] +- [[00-project/retrieval|Retrieval record]] (optional; used only when a memory or retrieval tool is available) + +## Where text goes + +The brief's `form` decides the layout. + +| Form | Manuscript | Working notes | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `long-form` | One prose-only file per chapter in `06-manuscript/chapters/`, from [[90-templates/chapter-prose]]. Afterword, author note and blurb in `06-manuscript/paratext/`. | One chapter card per chapter in `05-plot/chapters/`, from [[90-templates/chapter]], under the same chapter ID | +| `short-form` | The text under `## Manuscript` in one note per piece in `06-manuscript/pieces/`, from [[90-templates/short-piece]] | Everything outside that heading in the same note | + +Afterword, author note and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/` in both forms. + +Arcs use [[90-templates/arc]] and live in `05-plot/`. A volume is a packaging unit beside the arc: use [[90-templates/volume]], also in `05-plot/`, when the publication profile calls for volumes. Its numeric fields are unset; you fill them. Reviews use [[90-templates/review]] and live in `07-continuity/`. Craft notes on a source use [[90-templates/source-card]] as their format. They are not story canon and are not kept in this vault: keep them in the research workspace the author names, and cite a card here by its source ID. + +World and cast notes use [[90-templates/world-entry]], [[90-templates/event]], [[90-templates/people]], [[90-templates/character]], [[90-templates/relationship]], [[90-templates/location]], [[90-templates/organization]], [[90-templates/term]] and [[90-templates/foreshadow]]. + +## Skills + +| Work | Skill | +| --- | --- | +| Start or resume the story | `story-bootstrap` | +| World, history, peoples | `story-worldbuilding` | +| Cast, relationships, voice cards | `story-characters` | +| Spine, arcs, volumes, chapter cards | `story-architecture` | +| Manuscript prose | `story-drafting` | +| Canon, chronology and knowledge check | `story-canon-review` | +| Check prose against the voice sheet | `story-voice-review` | +| Craft sources and studies of existing works | `story-craft-research` | + +## Instantiating a template + +Instantiate only the templates the story needs. Give each new note a unique stable ID, a readable file name and the actual story ID. Where a template has `type: template`, replace it with the value of `template_type`, then remove `template_type`. Change `canon_status: template` to `proposed`; acceptance follows the author's working agreement in the decisions note. Remove instructional prompts when filling a note and keep the useful headings. + +Keep accepted canon separate from manuscript draft status. Back up the vault and any later plugin configuration together. + +## Loreweaver + +Loreweaver 0.1.2 does not filter by `canon_status` or by folder. Active `type: character` and `type: foreshadow` notes appear even when proposed or superseded, which is why reusable templates stay `type: template`. To make a superseded note disappear from Loreweaver, set `type: archived` and `original_type`, and record that decision. diff --git a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json index 1383213..f7ea9f5 100644 --- a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json +++ b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json @@ -224,5 +224,373 @@ ], "next": "presentation-video-review" } + }, + { + "id": "story-chapter-draft", + "request": "Draft the next chapter of a story from its chapter card, inside a story vault whose voice sheet is filled.", + "primary": "story-drafting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "kind: story vault with viewpoint, tense and distance set", + "chapter card with context packet" + ], + "produces": [ + "prose file under 06-manuscript/chapters/" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-new-vault", + "request": "Start a new story in an unused starter vault.", + "primary": "story-bootstrap", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "kind: starter vault", + "premise from the author" + ], + "produces": [ + "vault marked kind: story with a story ID and refreshed instruction files" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-canon-review", + "request": "Check a drafted chapter against the accepted canon before the author accepts it.", + "primary": "story-canon-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "drafted chapter at a named revision", + "accepted canon state" + ], + "produces": [ + "canon review at the named revision" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-voice-review", + "request": "Judge a range of chapters against the voice sheet, which has two anchor passages and a filled tone palette.", + "primary": "story-voice-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "voice sheet with anchor passages and tone palette", + "chapter range" + ], + "produces": [ + "voice review with classed findings; accepted prose unchanged" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-in-world-manual", + "request": "Write an in-world how-to manual that is quoted inside a chapter of the story.", + "primary": "story-drafting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "kind: story vault with viewpoint, tense and distance set", + "chapter that contains the in-world document" + ], + "produces": [ + "in-world text in the chapter's prose file" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-beta-feedback", + "request": "Work through beta-reader comments that claim a chapter contradicts the story's canon.", + "primary": "story-canon-review", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "beta-reader comments on a chapter", + "accepted canon state" + ], + "produces": [ + "canon review that dispositions each comment against cited passages" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-vault-readme", + "request": "Write the README of a story vault repository for a co-author.", + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [ + "project-backlog", + "human-prose-drafting", + "verification-before-completion" + ], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "standalone document request", + "defined reader" + ], + "produces": [ + "one reader-oriented document with recorded self-review" + ], + "next": "verification-before-completion" + } + }, + { + "id": "docs-release-note", + "request": "Write a release note for administrators in a documentation repository.", + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [ + "project-backlog", + "human-prose-drafting", + "verification-before-completion" + ], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "standalone document request", + "defined reader and subject version" + ], + "produces": [ + "one reader-oriented document with recorded self-review" + ], + "next": "verification-before-completion" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-world-tutorial-video", + "request": "Create an explanatory narrated video about a story's world for its readers.", + "primary": "tutorial-video-scripting", + "supporting": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "human-prose-drafting", + "terminology-guard", + "project-backlog" + ], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "topic, one audience and source material", + "video profile" + ], + "produces": [ + "reviewed script that passed the script check" + ], + "next": "presentation-video-production" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-method-documentation", + "request": "Write a how-to guide that documents how to use the story method.", + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [ + "project-backlog", + "writing-procedures", + "human-prose-drafting", + "verification-before-completion" + ], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "standalone document request", + "defined reader" + ], + "produces": [ + "one reader-oriented document with recorded self-review" + ], + "next": "verification-before-completion" + } + }, + { + "id": "study-vault-draft-request", + "request": "Ask for a new chapter in the canon of the studied work, inside a study vault.", + "primary": "story-craft-research", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "story-drafting", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "kind: study vault", + "request to draft against the studied work's canon" + ], + "produces": [ + "declined drafting; study notes only" + ], + "next": "author decision" + } + }, + { + "id": "vault-parent-session", + "request": "Write the README of a workspace directory that contains story vaults; the session is rooted in the parent of the vaults.", + "primary": "documentation-authoring", + "supporting": [ + "project-backlog", + "human-prose-drafting", + "verification-before-completion" + ], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "standalone document request", + "defined reader" + ], + "produces": [ + "one reader-oriented document with recorded self-review" + ], + "next": "verification-before-completion" + } } ] diff --git a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py index 89e89b3..6242a34 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py @@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ import unittest from scripts.validate_plugin import validate_repository ROOT=Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] -WRITING={'documentation-planning','documentation-authoring','documentation-review','documentation-pdf','human-prose-drafting','explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','terminology-guard','visual-placeholders','tutorial-video-scripting','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review'} +READER={'documentation-planning','documentation-authoring','documentation-review','documentation-pdf','human-prose-drafting','explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','terminology-guard','visual-placeholders','tutorial-video-scripting','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review'} +# The story family (WM-003, experimental). tests/test_writing_mode.py checks its separation from the reader family. +STORY={'story-bootstrap','story-worldbuilding','story-characters','story-architecture','story-drafting','story-canon-review','story-craft-research','story-voice-review'} +WRITING=READER|STORY SHARED={'project-backlog','verification-before-completion','dispatching-parallel-agents','using-git-worktrees','requesting-code-review','receiving-code-review','playbook-authoring','playbook-review'} class WritingContracts(unittest.TestCase): @@ -36,7 +39,40 @@ def test_writing_lifecycles_keep_recovery_and_state_handoffs(self): self.assertIn(contract," ".join(text.split())) def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self): matrix=json.loads((ROOT/'tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json').read_text()) - self.assertEqual({'standalone-document','documentation-set','existing-documentation-plan','documentation-pdf','tutorial-video-script','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review','video-one-line-correction'},{c['id'] for c in matrix}) + self.assertEqual({'standalone-document','documentation-set','existing-documentation-plan','documentation-pdf','tutorial-video-script','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review','video-one-line-correction', + # Story-positive cases: a story skill is primary and the reader prose skills are prohibited. + 'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback', + # Study vault: story-craft-research is primary and declines the request; story-drafting is prohibited. + 'study-vault-draft-request', + # Negative cases: every story skill is prohibited. + 'story-vault-readme','docs-release-note','story-world-tutorial-video','story-method-documentation','vault-parent-session'},{c['id'] for c in matrix}) + self.assertEqual(len(matrix),len({c['id'] for c in matrix})) + story_primary={c['id'] for c in matrix if c['primary'] in STORY} + self.assertEqual({'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback','study-vault-draft-request'},story_primary) + reader_prose={'explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','human-prose-drafting','documentation-authoring','documentation-planning','documentation-review','tutorial-video-scripting'} + new_cases=[c for c in matrix if c['id'].startswith(('story-','study-','vault-','docs-release'))] + self.assertEqual(12,len(new_cases)) + for case in new_cases: + if case['primary'] in STORY: + # Story work never loads the reader prose skills, review-feedback handling or a backlog. + self.assertTrue(reader_prose|{'requesting-code-review','receiving-code-review','project-backlog'} <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) + self.assertFalse(set(case['supporting'])-STORY-{'verification-before-completion'},case['id']) + else: + self.assertTrue(STORY <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) + if case['id']=='study-vault-draft-request': + self.assertIn('story-drafting',case['prohibited']) + # Both hosts expect the same selection for every routing case that has a trigger file. + triggers={json.loads(p.read_text())['id'] for p in (ROOT/'evals/shared/triggers').glob('*.json')} + expected={host:json.loads((ROOT/'evals'/host/'expected.json').read_text()) for host in ('claude','codex')} + self.assertEqual(expected['claude'],expected['codex']) + self.assertEqual(triggers,set(expected['claude'])) + for case in new_cases: + routed=expected['claude'][case['id']] + self.assertEqual(case['primary'],routed['primary']) + # The matrix lists one entry no host can invoke; beyond it the lists are equal, so no prohibition can be dropped. + self.assertEqual(set(case['prohibited'])-{'native-focused-edit'},set(routed['prohibited']),case['id']) + self.assertTrue(set(routed['supporting']) <= set(case['supporting']),case['id']) + self.assertEqual(['decision.md'],routed['artifacts']) for case in matrix: self.assertIn(case['primary'],WRITING) self.assertTrue(set(case['supporting']) <= WRITING|SHARED) diff --git a/tests/test_writing_mode.py b/tests/test_writing_mode.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38d40b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/test_writing_mode.py @@ -0,0 +1,703 @@ +"""Separation of the story family from the reader family. + +The single JSON block in ``shared/policies/writing-mode.md`` is the authority +these tests read. They prove that names, sentences, links and the vault starter +are as the policy states. They do not prove that a model follows the sentences: +routing is statistical and is measured by the host evaluations. +""" +from __future__ import annotations + +import json +import re +import shutil +import subprocess +import tempfile +import unittest +from pathlib import Path +from urllib.parse import unquote + +from scripts.package_plugin import included +from scripts.validate_plugin import MARKDOWN_LINK, _validate_platform_boundary + +ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] +HUB = "shared/policies/writing-mode.md" +VAULT = "templates/story-vault" + +STORY_SKILLS = [ + "story-bootstrap", + "story-worldbuilding", + "story-characters", + "story-architecture", + "story-drafting", + "story-canon-review", + "story-craft-research", + "story-voice-review", +] +READER_SKILLS = [ + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-review", + "documentation-pdf", + "human-prose-drafting", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "terminology-guard", + "visual-placeholders", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "presentation-video-production", + "presentation-video-review", +] +PRECEDENCE_READER_SKILLS = [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", +] +EXCLUDED_READER_SKILLS = PRECEDENCE_READER_SKILLS + [ + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-review", + "terminology-guard", + "tutorial-video-scripting", +] +PRECEDENCE_STORY_SKILLS = ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review"] + +# Skill names of the sibling Engineering Method plugin. Both plugins can be +# installed together, and OpenCode has one flat skill namespace. +ENGINEERING_SKILLS = { + "architecture-modeling", + "openspec-apply", + "openspec-archive", + "openspec-propose", + "orchestrated-implementation", + "speckit-converge", + "speckit-plan", + "speckit-specify", + "speckit-tasks", + "systematic-debugging", + "test-driven-development", +} + +# The exact sentences of the implementation contract. The policy block must +# store them unchanged; every carrier is then compared against the block. +S1 = ( + "Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): " + "find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and " + "00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study " + "permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap." +) +S2 = ( + "For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, " + "writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when " + "those skills are loaded in this session." +) +S3 = "Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +S4 = "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." +S5 = ( + "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop " + "and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md)." +) +S6 = ( + "Manuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or " + "didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the " + "author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply." +) +CONTRACT_SENTENCES = { + "story_opening": S1, + "precedence": S2, + "story_description_suffix": S3, + "reader_description_clause": S4, + "reader_opening": S5, + "vault_instruction": S6, +} + +# Reader-family policy files that may refer to the story side, and only by +# linking the hub. +HUB_LINKING_POLICIES = [ + "shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md", + "shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md", + "shared/policies/writing-depth.md", +] +# Repository documents written for readers of the plugin. They name both +# families, so only the link rule applies to them. +READER_DOCUMENTS = ["README.md", "docs/usage.md"] + +URL_SCHEME = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9+.-]*:") +WIKI_LINK = re.compile(r"\[\[([^\]|]+)(?:\|[^\]]+)?\]\]") +JSON_BLOCK = re.compile(r"```json\n(.*?)\n```", re.S) +FRONTMATTER_LINE = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-]*:(?: \S.*)?$") +PRIVATE_PATH = re.compile(r"(?\n]+>|\S+)") +HTML_HREF = re.compile(r"href\s*=\s*[\"']([^\"']+)[\"']") + +# Package hygiene patterns. A home-relative path counts as a user path. +USER_PATH = re.compile(r"/Users/|/home/[a-z]|~/[A-Za-z]") +OWNER_NAME = re.compile(r"\bPeter\b") +MEMORY_SERVICE = re.compile(r"agentic-rag|domain=worldbuilding|mcp__") + +# Exemptions from the hygiene scan, by exact path. Each one is a file that must +# hold the text; nothing is exempt by directory except the one prefix below. +# This module holds the patterns themselves. +HYGIENE_SELF = "tests/test_writing_mode.py" +# Licence, copyright, author and product-name fields carry the owner's name. +OWNER_NAME_ALLOWED = { + HYGIENE_SELF, + "LICENSE", # copyright line + "THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md", # copyright line + "CORE_NOTICES.md", # copyright line (Method Core) + "third-party/sources.lock.json", # copyright field + "third-party/core-sources.lock.json", # copyright field (Method Core) + ".claude-plugin/marketplace.json", # owner field + ".claude-plugin/plugin.json", # author and display name + ".codex-plugin/plugin.json", # author, developer and display name + "templates/documentation/book/_extensions/em-book/_extension.yml", # author field + "templates/documentation/pdf/_extensions/em-manual/_extension.yml", # author field + "FEATURES.md", # product name in the generated statement + "engineering_method/features.py", # product name (Method Core) + "engineering_method/issues.py", # product name (Method Core) + "tests/test_method_identity.py", # product name (Method Core) +} +# Method Core files, which this repository must not edit. +MEMORY_SERVICE_ALLOWED = { + HYGIENE_SELF, + "scripts/run_host_evals.py", # generic tool-name prefix in the eval harness + "shared/platform/opencode.md", # names the service as out of scope +} +USER_PATH_ALLOWED = {HYGIENE_SELF} +# Design records keep the port table, which names source paths of the private +# workspace. They are exempt from the research/external pattern only. +PRIVATE_PATH_ALLOWED = {HYGIENE_SELF} +PRIVATE_PATH_ALLOWED_PREFIX = "docs/specs/" + + +# --- helpers ----------------------------------------------------------------- + +def read(relative: str | Path) -> str: + path = relative if isinstance(relative, Path) else ROOT / relative + return path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") + + +def rel(path: Path) -> str: + return path.relative_to(ROOT).as_posix() + + +def squash(text: str) -> str: + """Collapse line wrapping so a sentence compares equal however it is wrapped.""" + return " ".join(text.split()) + + +def load_policy() -> dict: + blocks = JSON_BLOCK.findall(read(HUB)) + if len(blocks) != 1: + raise AssertionError(f"{HUB} must contain exactly one json block, found {len(blocks)}") + return json.loads(blocks[0]) + + +def split_frontmatter(text: str) -> tuple[list[str], str]: + """Return (frontmatter lines, body). A file without frontmatter has no lines.""" + if not text.startswith("---\n"): + return [], text + head, separator, body = text[4:].partition("\n---\n") + if not separator: + raise AssertionError("unterminated frontmatter") + return head.split("\n"), body + + +def frontmatter(relative: str | Path) -> dict[str, str]: + lines, _ = split_frontmatter(read(relative)) + fields = {} + for line in lines: + key, _, value = line.partition(":") + fields[key.strip()] = value.strip() + return fields + + +def skill_description(name: str) -> str: + raw = frontmatter(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")["description"] + if not (raw.startswith('"') and raw.endswith('"') and len(raw) >= 2): + raise AssertionError(f"{name}: description must be a double-quoted scalar on one line") + return json.loads(raw) + + +def paragraphs_after_h1(relative: str) -> list[str]: + """Body paragraphs that follow the first H1, each with its wrapping collapsed.""" + _, body = split_frontmatter(read(relative)) + match = re.search(r"^# .+$", body, re.M) + if match is None: + raise AssertionError(f"{relative}: no H1") + return [squash(block) for block in re.split(r"\n\s*\n", body[match.end():]) if block.strip()] + + +def markdown_files(*trees: str) -> list[Path]: + found: list[Path] = [] + for tree in trees: + found.extend(sorted((ROOT / tree).rglob("*.md"))) + return found + + +def story_files() -> list[Path]: + """Every Markdown file of the story family, starter vault included.""" + skills = [p for d in sorted((ROOT / "skills").glob("story-*")) for p in sorted(d.rglob("*.md"))] + return skills + markdown_files("shared/story", VAULT) + + +def reader_files(policy: dict) -> list[Path]: + """Every Markdown file of the reader family, without the neutral hub.""" + skills = [p for name in policy["families"]["reader"] + for p in sorted((ROOT / "skills" / name).rglob("*.md"))] + policies = [p for p in sorted((ROOT / "shared/policies").glob("*.md")) if rel(p) != HUB] + return skills + policies + markdown_files( + "shared/writing", "shared/media", "templates/documentation", "templates/presentation-video") + + +def link_destination(written: str) -> str: + """The destination of a link as written: angle brackets and a title removed.""" + written = written.strip() + if written.startswith("<"): + # Before any whitespace split, so a bracketed path with spaces survives. + return written[1:].split(">", 1)[0] + return written.split()[0] if written else "" + + +def link_targets_in(text: str, path: Path) -> list[tuple[str, str | None]]: + """Targets of every link in text, resolved as if text were the file at path. + + Inline links, reference definitions and HTML href attributes all count. + """ + written_links = (MARKDOWN_LINK.findall(text) + REFERENCE_DEFINITION.findall(text) + + HTML_HREF.findall(text)) + targets = [] + for written in written_links: + link = link_destination(written) + if not link or link.startswith("#") or URL_SCHEME.match(link): + continue + resolved = (path.parent / unquote(link.split("#", 1)[0])).resolve() + inside = resolved.is_relative_to(ROOT.resolve()) + targets.append((written, resolved.relative_to(ROOT.resolve()).as_posix() if inside else None)) + return targets + + +def relative_link_targets(path: Path) -> list[tuple[str, str | None]]: + """(link as written, repo-relative target or None when it leaves the repo).""" + return link_targets_in(read(path), path) + + +def under(target: str, prefixes: list[str]) -> bool: + # A link to the directory itself ("shared/story") matches its prefix "shared/story/". + return any(target.startswith(prefix) or (target + "/").startswith(prefix) + for prefix in prefixes) + + +def without_exempt_text(text: str, sentences: list[str]) -> str: + """Drop the contract sentences and every 'Not for' / 'Do not use' line.""" + for sentence in sentences: + text = re.sub(r"\s+".join(re.escape(word) for word in sentence.split()), " ", text) + return "\n".join(line for line in text.split("\n") if not EXEMPT_LINE.search(line)) + + +def backticked(names: list[str], text: str) -> list[str]: + return [name for name in names if f"`{name}`" in text] + + +def hygiene_files() -> list[Path]: + """Every file the release archive ships, whatever its type. + + The list is Git's file list passed through the packager's own inclusion + rule. Untracked files that are not ignored are listed too: they ship with + the next commit. Without a Git checkout the tree is walked instead. + """ + listing = subprocess.run( + ["git", "-C", str(ROOT), "ls-files", "-z", "--cached", "--others", "--exclude-standard"], + capture_output=True, timeout=30) + if listing.returncode == 0: + names = [name for name in listing.stdout.decode("utf-8").split("\0") if name] + else: + names = [rel(p) for p in ROOT.rglob("*") if p.is_file()] + return [ROOT / name for name in sorted(set(names)) if included(name) and (ROOT / name).is_file()] + + +# --- policy block and family map --------------------------------------------- + +class PolicyBlock(unittest.TestCase): + maxDiff = None + + def setUp(self): + self.policy = load_policy() + + def test_policy_block_states_the_contract(self): + policy = self.policy + self.assertEqual(1, policy["schema_version"]) + self.assertEqual("experimental", policy["status"]) + self.assertEqual(HUB, policy["hub"]) + self.assertEqual(STORY_SKILLS, policy["families"]["story"]) + self.assertEqual(READER_SKILLS, policy["families"]["reader"]) + self.assertEqual( + {"prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], + "files": [HUB, "shared/policies/proportionality.md", + "skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md"]}, + policy["story_link_allow"]) + self.assertEqual(["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], + policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"]) + self.assertEqual(PRECEDENCE_READER_SKILLS, policy["precedence_reader_skills"]) + self.assertEqual(EXCLUDED_READER_SKILLS, policy["excluded_reader_skills"]) + self.assertEqual(PRECEDENCE_STORY_SKILLS, policy["precedence_story_skills"]) + self.assertEqual(CONTRACT_SENTENCES, policy["sentences"]) + + def test_policy_block_states_the_vault_rule(self): + self.assertEqual( + {"markers": ["00-project/brief.md", "00-project/voice.md"], + "kinds": ["story", "study", "starter"], + "drafting_kind": "story", + "drafting_requires_voice_fields": ["viewpoint", "tense", "distance"], + "forms": ["long-form", "short-form"], + "manuscript_paths": ["06-manuscript/chapters/", "06-manuscript/paratext/"], + "short_form_manuscript_heading": "## Manuscript", + "reader_files": ["README.md", "START.md", "AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md"]}, + self.policy["vault"]) + + def test_families_partition_exactly_the_method_skills(self): + story, reader = self.policy["families"]["story"], self.policy["families"]["reader"] + owned = json.loads(read("method.json"))["method_skills"] + self.assertEqual(len(story + reader), len(set(story + reader)), "a skill is listed twice") + self.assertEqual(set(), set(story) & set(reader)) + self.assertEqual(sorted(owned), sorted(story + reader)) + for name in story + reader: + self.assertTrue((ROOT / "skills" / name / "SKILL.md").is_file(), name) + self.assertEqual(name, frontmatter(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")["name"]) + + def test_story_names_are_prefixed_and_collide_with_nothing(self): + lock = json.loads(read("method-core.lock.json")) + shared = {item["path"].split("/")[1] for item in lock["files"] + if re.fullmatch(r"skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md", item["path"])} + self.assertTrue(shared, "the core lock names no shared skill") + reader = set(self.policy["families"]["reader"]) + for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: + self.assertTrue(name.startswith("story-"), name) + self.assertNotIn("continuity", name) + self.assertNotIn(name, shared) + self.assertNotIn(name, ENGINEERING_SKILLS) + self.assertNotIn(name, reader) + on_disk = {p.parent.name for p in (ROOT / "skills").glob("story-*/SKILL.md")} + self.assertEqual(set(self.policy["families"]["story"]), on_disk) + + def test_hub_contains_no_markdown_link(self): + # The stored sentences S1 and S5 carry link syntax, so the block is set aside. + prose = JSON_BLOCK.sub("", read(HUB)) + self.assertEqual([], MARKDOWN_LINK.findall(prose)) + + +# --- sentences in their carriers --------------------------------------------- + +class OperativeSentences(unittest.TestCase): + maxDiff = None + + def setUp(self): + self.policy = load_policy() + self.sentences = self.policy["sentences"] + + def test_every_story_skill_opens_with_the_mode_check(self): + for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + paragraphs = paragraphs_after_h1(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md") + self.assertEqual(self.sentences["story_opening"], paragraphs[0]) + + def test_precedence_story_skills_state_the_precedence_second(self): + for name in self.policy["precedence_story_skills"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + paragraphs = paragraphs_after_h1(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md") + self.assertGreaterEqual(len(paragraphs), 2) + self.assertEqual(self.sentences["precedence"], paragraphs[1]) + + def test_every_story_description_ends_with_the_exclusion(self): + for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + self.assertTrue( + skill_description(name).endswith(self.sentences["story_description_suffix"]), + skill_description(name)) + + def test_excluded_reader_descriptions_end_with_the_story_exclusion(self): + for name in self.policy["excluded_reader_skills"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + description = skill_description(name) + self.assertIn(self.sentences["reader_description_clause"], description) + self.assertTrue(description.endswith(self.sentences["reader_description_clause"]), + description) + + def test_precedence_reader_skills_open_with_the_story_exclusion(self): + for name in self.policy["precedence_reader_skills"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + paragraphs = paragraphs_after_h1(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md") + self.assertEqual(self.sentences["reader_opening"], paragraphs[0]) + + def test_opening_links_resolve_to_the_hub(self): + # S1 and S5 are written for a file at skills//SKILL.md. + for sentence in (self.sentences["story_opening"], self.sentences["reader_opening"]): + (target,) = MARKDOWN_LINK.findall(sentence) + resolved = (ROOT / "skills/any-skill" / target).resolve() + self.assertEqual((ROOT / HUB).resolve(), resolved) + + def test_vault_instruction_file_carries_the_mode_rule(self): + self.assertIn(self.sentences["vault_instruction"], squash(read(f"{VAULT}/AGENTS.md"))) + + +# --- link firewall ----------------------------------------------------------- + +class LinkFirewall(unittest.TestCase): + maxDiff = None + + def setUp(self): + self.policy = load_policy() + + def test_story_family_files_exist(self): + for name in ["rules.md", "workflow.md", "story-development.md", "retrieval.md", + "sources.md", "voice-and-tone.md"]: + self.assertTrue((ROOT / "shared/story" / name).is_file(), name) + self.assertTrue((ROOT / VAULT).is_dir()) + + def test_story_links_resolve_and_stay_on_the_allow_list(self): + allow = self.policy["story_link_allow"] + problems = [] + for path in story_files(): + for written, target in relative_link_targets(path): + if target is None: + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} leaves the repository") + elif not (ROOT / target).is_file(): + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} does not resolve to a file") + elif not (under(target, allow["prefixes"]) or target in allow["files"]): + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} -> {target} is not on the allow list") + self.assertEqual([], problems) + + def test_reader_files_never_link_into_the_story_family(self): + deny = self.policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"] + problems = [] + for path in reader_files(self.policy) + [ROOT / name for name in READER_DOCUMENTS]: + for written, target in relative_link_targets(path): + if target is not None and under(target, deny): + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} -> {target}") + self.assertEqual([], problems) + + def test_policy_files_refer_to_the_story_side_only_through_the_hub(self): + story_side = self.policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"] + for relative in HUB_LINKING_POLICIES: + with self.subTest(file=relative): + targets = [target for _, target in relative_link_targets(ROOT / relative)] + # The reference to the story side has to be there, as a link to the hub. + self.assertIn(HUB, targets) + beyond_hub = [t for t in targets if t is not None and under(t, story_side)] + self.assertEqual([], beyond_hub) + + def test_firewall_helpers_catch_every_link_form(self): + # The helpers themselves are pinned: each form below is a link into the + # story family written in a reader skill and must be reported. + deny = self.policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"] + reader_skill = ROOT / "skills/explaining-concepts/SKILL.md" + caught = { + "inline file link": "[r](../../shared/story/rules.md)", + "inline link with a title": '[r](../../shared/story/rules.md "Rules")', + "inline link with an anchor": "[r](../../shared/story/rules.md#rule-1)", + "skill directory": "[s](../story-drafting)", + "directory with a trailing slash": "[r](../../shared/story/)", + "directory without a trailing slash": "[r](../../shared/story)", + "vault starter directory": "[v](../../templates/story-vault)", + "angle brackets": "[r](<../../shared/story/rules.md>)", + "angle brackets around a path with a space": "[r](<../../shared/story/two words.md>)", + "reference definition": "See [r][x].\n\n[x]: ../../shared/story/rules.md", + "reference definition in angle brackets": "[x]: <../../shared/story/rules.md>", + "HTML link": 'r', + "HTML link in single quotes": "v", + } + for form, text in caught.items(): + with self.subTest(form=form): + targets = [target for _, target in link_targets_in(text, reader_skill)] + self.assertTrue(any(t is not None and under(t, deny) for t in targets), targets) + allowed = { + "the hub": "[writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md)", + "a reader policy": "[depth](../../shared/policies/writing-depth.md)", + "a sibling whose name only starts alike": "[s](../../shared/story-notes.md)", + "a URL": "[u](https://example.com/shared/story/rules.md)", + "a URL in a reference definition": "[x]: https://example.com/skills/story-drafting", + "an anchor": "[a](#shared/story/)", + } + for form, text in allowed.items(): + with self.subTest(form=form): + targets = [target for _, target in link_targets_in(text, reader_skill)] + self.assertFalse(any(t is not None and under(t, deny) for t in targets), targets) + self.assertEqual("../a b.md", link_destination("<../a b.md>")) + self.assertEqual("../a.md", link_destination('../a.md "title"')) + + def test_story_files_name_no_reader_skill_outside_the_contract_sentences(self): + sentences = list(self.policy["sentences"].values()) + reader = self.policy["families"]["reader"] + problems = {} + for path in story_files(): + found = backticked(reader, without_exempt_text(read(path), sentences)) + if found: + problems[rel(path)] = found + self.assertEqual({}, problems) + + def test_reader_files_name_no_story_skill_outside_the_contract_sentences(self): + sentences = list(self.policy["sentences"].values()) + story = self.policy["families"]["story"] + problems = {} + for path in reader_files(self.policy): + found = backticked(story, without_exempt_text(read(path), sentences)) + if found: + problems[rel(path)] = found + self.assertEqual({}, problems) + + def test_lifecycle_graph_contains_no_story_node(self): + self.assertNotIn("story-", read("shared/policies/lifecycle-handoffs.md")) + + +# --- vault starter ----------------------------------------------------------- + +class VaultStarter(unittest.TestCase): + maxDiff = None + + def setUp(self): + self.policy = load_policy() + self.vault = ROOT / VAULT + + def test_markers_declare_an_unset_starter(self): + for marker in self.policy["vault"]["markers"]: + with self.subTest(marker=marker): + self.assertTrue((self.vault / marker).is_file()) + fields = frontmatter(self.vault / marker) + self.assertEqual("starter", fields.get("kind")) + self.assertEqual("unset", fields.get("story_id")) + # The story ID lives in the frontmatter only. + _, body = split_frontmatter(read(self.vault / marker)) + self.assertIsNone(re.search(r"(?i)\bstory[ _]id\b\s*:", body)) + + def test_brief_declares_form_and_publication_profile(self): + fields = frontmatter(self.vault / "00-project/brief.md") + self.assertEqual("long-form", fields.get("form")) + self.assertIn(fields["form"], self.policy["vault"]["forms"]) + self.assertEqual("unset", fields.get("publication_profile")) + + def test_voice_sheet_leaves_the_drafting_fields_unset(self): + fields = frontmatter(self.vault / "00-project/voice.md") + for field in self.policy["vault"]["drafting_requires_voice_fields"]: + self.assertEqual("unset", fields.get(field), field) + self.assertEqual("V0", fields.get("voice_revision")) + + def test_instruction_files_exist(self): + self.assertIn(self.policy["sentences"]["vault_instruction"], + squash(read(self.vault / "AGENTS.md"))) + self.assertTrue((self.vault / "CLAUDE.md").is_file()) + # The adapter imports the authority; it does not repeat it. + self.assertIn("AGENTS.md", read(self.vault / "CLAUDE.md")) + for name in self.policy["vault"]["reader_files"]: + if name != "README.md": + self.assertTrue((self.vault / name).is_file(), name) + + def test_manuscript_directories_exist(self): + # The policy names where manuscript prose lives; the starter has to ship those places. + paths = self.policy["vault"]["manuscript_paths"] + self.assertTrue(paths) + for relative in paths: + with self.subTest(path=relative): + self.assertTrue(relative.endswith("/"), relative) + self.assertTrue((self.vault / relative).is_dir(), relative) + # Short-form pieces are one note each; the vault files name this directory. + self.assertTrue((self.vault / "06-manuscript/pieces").is_dir()) + + def test_templates_for_both_forms_exist(self): + templates = self.vault / "90-templates" + for name in ["chapter.md", "chapter-prose.md", "short-piece.md", "volume.md", "source-card.md"]: + self.assertTrue((templates / name).is_file(), name) + heading = self.policy["vault"]["short_form_manuscript_heading"] + lines = lambda name: read(templates / name).split("\n") + # Long form keeps prose out of the chapter card; short form keeps it under one heading. + self.assertNotIn(heading, lines("chapter.md")) + self.assertIn(heading, lines("short-piece.md")) + self.assertIn("Voice card", read(templates / "character.md")) + self.assertIn("Voice review", read(templates / "review.md")) + + def test_every_wiki_link_resolves_inside_the_starter(self): + notes = sorted(self.vault.rglob("*.md")) + self.assertTrue(notes) + missing = [] + for path in notes: + for target in WIKI_LINK.findall(read(path)): + note = target.split("#", 1)[0].strip() + resolved = (self.vault / (note + ".md")).resolve() + if not note or not resolved.is_relative_to(self.vault.resolve()) or not resolved.is_file(): + missing.append(f"{rel(path)}: [[{target}]]") + self.assertEqual([], missing) + + def test_frontmatter_is_simple_key_value_lines(self): + problems = [] + for path in sorted(self.vault.rglob("*.md")): + lines, _ = split_frontmatter(read(path)) + keys = [line.split(":", 1)[0] for line in lines] + if len(keys) != len(set(keys)): + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: repeated key") + problems.extend(f"{rel(path)}: {line!r}" for line in lines + if not FRONTMATTER_LINE.fullmatch(line)) + self.assertEqual([], problems) + + +# --- package hygiene --------------------------------------------------------- + +class StoryPackageHygiene(unittest.TestCase): + """Scans every file of the release archive, not only the story trees.""" + maxDiff = None + + def scan(self, pattern: re.Pattern, allowed: set[str], allowed_prefix: str | None = None) -> list[str]: + hits = [] + for path in hygiene_files(): + name = rel(path) + if name in allowed or (allowed_prefix is not None and name.startswith(allowed_prefix)): + continue + try: + text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") + except UnicodeDecodeError: + continue # binary files, such as the bundled fonts + hits.extend(f"{name}: {match.group(0)}" for match in pattern.finditer(text)) + return hits + + def test_scan_covers_the_package(self): + scanned = {rel(path) for path in hygiene_files()} + expected = {HUB, "README.md", "docs/usage.md", "THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md", + "docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md", + "tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json", + "evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json", + "shared/story/rules.md", f"{VAULT}/AGENTS.md"} + expected |= {f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md" for name in STORY_SKILLS + READER_SKILLS} + self.assertEqual(set(), expected - scanned) + # Nothing the packager leaves out is scanned, and every exemption names a shipped file. + self.assertTrue(all(included(name) for name in scanned)) + exempt = OWNER_NAME_ALLOWED | MEMORY_SERVICE_ALLOWED | USER_PATH_ALLOWED | PRIVATE_PATH_ALLOWED + self.assertEqual(set(), exempt - scanned) + + def test_no_absolute_or_home_relative_user_path(self): + self.assertEqual([], self.scan(USER_PATH, USER_PATH_ALLOWED)) + + def test_no_owner_name_outside_licence_and_manifest_fields(self): + self.assertEqual([], self.scan(OWNER_NAME, OWNER_NAME_ALLOWED)) + + def test_no_path_into_private_research_or_study_material(self): + self.assertEqual([], self.scan(PRIVATE_PATH, PRIVATE_PATH_ALLOWED, PRIVATE_PATH_ALLOWED_PREFIX)) + + def test_no_private_memory_service(self): + self.assertEqual([], self.scan(MEMORY_SERVICE, MEMORY_SERVICE_ALLOWED)) + + def test_shared_story_holds_no_host_syntax(self): + # The validator scans skills, templates and shared/policies. Its own check + # is pointed at shared/story by presenting that directory as a scanned tree. + self.assertTrue(any((ROOT / "shared/story").glob("*.md"))) + with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="writing-mode-") as directory: + stage = Path(directory) + shutil.copytree(ROOT / "shared/story", stage / "skills") + (stage / "templates").mkdir() + (stage / "shared/policies").mkdir(parents=True) + errors: list[str] = [] + _validate_platform_boundary(stage, errors) + self.assertEqual([], errors) + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + unittest.main() diff --git a/third-party/sources.lock.json b/third-party/sources.lock.json index 54abedb..a17b490 100644 --- a/third-party/sources.lock.json +++ b/third-party/sources.lock.json @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ "source_path": "SKILL.md", "destination_path": "skills/human-prose-drafting/SKILL.md", "source_sha256": "e8269e236bed06ed0fe4824c274112e54950b0cb46b0bafe5e1576ef7c9f93d5", - "destination_sha256": "6cd68c9a20d0bc8c2484b93692653f83cc05c8a03179173cde640758bd035def", + "destination_sha256": "eb60a8732f86fb1ffb92656700ff4d9aa4b76db6260e68467401133830c7c02c", "modification_status": "adapted" } ] @@ -127,8 +127,12 @@ "shared/policies/reader-oriented-output.md", "shared/writing/**", "templates/documentation/**", - "skills/documentation-pdf/SKILL.md" + "skills/documentation-pdf/SKILL.md", + "shared/policies/writing-mode.md", + "skills/story-*/**", + "shared/story/**", + "templates/story-vault/**" ], - "scope": "These paths are original implementation, except destinations enumerated in sources, which keep their own licence. No upstream runtime is bundled." + "scope": "These paths are original implementation, except destinations enumerated in sources, which keep their own licence. No upstream runtime is bundled. The story family's craft guidance is original writing informed by the attributed sources indexed in shared/story/sources.md; no third-party text is vendored." } } From 3a331b36472c18b2eae30ebf9800434c5a1e765e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:56:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 02/11] fix(story): rule out run state in story skills after the first host routing run (WM-003) Two Codex runs opened the backlog skill inside a story vault while looking for a recovery preamble. Every story skill now states that it has none. Documentation of the story method may read story skills as source material; only the two that govern or judge manuscript stay prohibited. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- evals/claude/expected.json | 6 ------ evals/codex/expected.json | 6 ------ shared/policies/writing-mode.md | 2 +- skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-characters/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md | 2 ++ skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md | 2 ++ tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json | 6 ------ tests/test_writing_contracts.py | 3 +++ tests/test_writing_mode.py | 11 +++++++++++ 14 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/evals/claude/expected.json b/evals/claude/expected.json index ee29e33..da147ac 100644 --- a/evals/claude/expected.json +++ b/evals/claude/expected.json @@ -347,13 +347,7 @@ "primary": "documentation-authoring", "supporting": [], "prohibited": [ - "story-bootstrap", - "story-worldbuilding", - "story-characters", - "story-architecture", "story-drafting", - "story-canon-review", - "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review" ], "artifacts": [ diff --git a/evals/codex/expected.json b/evals/codex/expected.json index ee29e33..da147ac 100644 --- a/evals/codex/expected.json +++ b/evals/codex/expected.json @@ -347,13 +347,7 @@ "primary": "documentation-authoring", "supporting": [], "prohibited": [ - "story-bootstrap", - "story-worldbuilding", - "story-characters", - "story-architecture", "story-drafting", - "story-canon-review", - "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review" ], "artifacts": [ diff --git a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md index 1b2363b..4685018 100644 --- a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md +++ b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ not that a host obeys it. | A reply that discusses plot, characters or craft | `reader-oriented` | | A reply that contains a draft passage | The passage goes into a manuscript location or a fenced block and is `manuscript`; the surrounding reply never restyles it | | A draft passage requested outside any vault | `manuscript` with the method defaults; the reply states that no voice sheet applies | -| Documentation about the story method; a vault `README.md` | `reader-oriented`, under `documentation-authoring` | +| Documentation about the story method; a vault `README.md` | `reader-oriented`, under `documentation-authoring`. Story skills may be read as source material; they do not govern the document. | | An in-world document, including an in-world how-to manual | `manuscript`, under `story-drafting` | | A story excerpt quoted in documentation | Quoted material, unchanged | | An explanatory narrated video about a story or its world | `reader-oriented`, under `tutorial-video-scripting` | diff --git a/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md b/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md index 7223463..c7cb462 100644 --- a/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-architecture/SKILL.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ description: "Use when the structure of a long story must be outlined: whole-sto Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + Outlines, arc notes, volume notes and chapter cards are working notes: plain notes that follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. Read the story brief, accepted cast/world constraints and [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md). Use the [arc](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/arc.md), [volume](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/volume.md), [chapter card](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/chapter.md) and [foreshadow](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/foreshadow.md) templates. diff --git a/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md b/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md index 645f344..dd1a84d 100644 --- a/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-bootstrap/SKILL.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ description: "Use when a story project must be started or resumed: creating a st Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + Read [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md) and [rules](../../shared/story/rules.md). Read the [retrieval contract](../../shared/story/retrieval.md) only if a memory or retrieval tool is available. Paths in this skill resolve from its own folder; story paths resolve from the selected vault. For a minimal idea or a resumed development conversation, use [guided story development](../../shared/story/story-development.md). Read `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md` when they exist; update them from the conversation rather than requiring the author to fill forms. Ask only the next consequential unresolved question and preserve prior delegation. diff --git a/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md b/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md index 26889d5..b78e436 100644 --- a/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-canon-review/SKILL.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ description: "Use when story chapters, short pieces or plans must be checked aga Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + The review report is a working note. It never restyles manuscript, and it does not judge voice or tone; that belongs to `story-voice-review`. Read the relevant accepted notes, manuscript passages and the [review template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md); read the [retrieval contract](../../shared/story/retrieval.md) only if a memory or retrieval tool is in use. Establish the exact chapters and revisions in scope. Summaries and retrieval hits locate evidence; original passages decide findings. diff --git a/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md b/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md index ae5e3e4..e89b160 100644 --- a/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-characters/SKILL.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ description: "Use when main or supporting characters of a story must be built or Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + Character notes are working notes: plain notes that follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. Read the story brief, voice sheet, relevant world constraints and accepted cast notes. Use the [character template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/character.md) and [working rules](../../shared/story/rules.md). diff --git a/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md b/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md index 91113d3..f402ef8 100644 --- a/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-craft-research/SKILL.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ description: "Use when fiction craft or worldbuilding method must be researched: Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + Research notes, source cards and study notes are working notes: plain notes that follow neither a voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. ## Where the work is kept diff --git a/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md b/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md index c79fa99..80b2094 100644 --- a/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): f For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + ## What counts as manuscript, and where it goes Manuscript is story prose, any document that exists inside the story (a letter, a report, a case file, an in-world how-to manual), and paratext: afterword, author note and blurb. An in-world manual is written in the voice the story gives its fictional writer, not as instructions for a real reader. diff --git a/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md b/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md index 2b849ce..a7de2a7 100644 --- a/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-voice-review/SKILL.md @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): f For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + This skill is experimental. It reviews manuscript in a vault of kind story only. Read [voice and tone](../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md), the story's `00-project/voice.md`, the voice cards of the characters who speak in scope, and the [review template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/review.md). The report is a working note; the reply about it stays reader-oriented. ## Preconditions diff --git a/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md b/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md index 287fef5..82d6ff8 100644 --- a/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-worldbuilding/SKILL.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ description: "Use when a fictional world for a story must be developed or extend Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + World notes are working notes: plain notes that follow neither the voice sheet nor any instructional document structure. For technically grounded fiction, read [science and institutions](references/science-and-institutions.md) when capability limits, scientific claims or institutional consequences affect the plot. diff --git a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json index f7ea9f5..706c377 100644 --- a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json +++ b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json @@ -511,13 +511,7 @@ ], "prohibited": [ "native-focused-edit", - "story-bootstrap", - "story-worldbuilding", - "story-characters", - "story-architecture", "story-drafting", - "story-canon-review", - "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review" ], "handoff": { diff --git a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py index 6242a34..c85fb88 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self # Story work never loads the reader prose skills, review-feedback handling or a backlog. self.assertTrue(reader_prose|{'requesting-code-review','receiving-code-review','project-backlog'} <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) self.assertFalse(set(case['supporting'])-STORY-{'verification-before-completion'},case['id']) + elif case['id']=='story-method-documentation': + # Documenting the method may read story skills as source material; the two that govern or judge manuscript text stay prohibited. + self.assertEqual({'native-focused-edit','story-drafting','story-voice-review'},set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) else: self.assertTrue(STORY <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) if case['id']=='study-vault-draft-request': diff --git a/tests/test_writing_mode.py b/tests/test_writing_mode.py index 38d40b7..52fc365 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_mode.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_mode.py @@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ ] PRECEDENCE_STORY_SKILLS = ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review"] +NO_RUN_STATE = ( + "No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. " + "A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in " + "00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md." +) + # Skill names of the sibling Engineering Method plugin. Both plugins can be # installed together, and OpenCode has one flat skill namespace. ENGINEERING_SKILLS = { @@ -410,6 +416,11 @@ def test_precedence_story_skills_state_the_precedence_second(self): self.assertGreaterEqual(len(paragraphs), 2) self.assertEqual(self.sentences["precedence"], paragraphs[1]) + def test_every_story_skill_rules_out_run_state(self): + # Hosts otherwise go looking for a recovery preamble and open the backlog skill in a vault. + for name in STORY_SKILLS: + self.assertIn(NO_RUN_STATE, paragraphs_after_h1(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")[:3], name) + def test_every_story_description_ends_with_the_exclusion(self): for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: with self.subTest(skill=name): From be085659294ee42414912c12f63a6221e244abbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:11:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 03/11] test(story): allow the drafting skill's mode check in the study-vault routing case (WM-003) Claude opened story-drafting in three of three runs, read its mode check and declined correctly. That is the designed mechanism, so the case no longer prohibits it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- evals/claude/expected.json | 1 - evals/codex/expected.json | 1 - tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json | 1 - tests/test_writing_contracts.py | 6 ++++-- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/evals/claude/expected.json b/evals/claude/expected.json index da147ac..223a3bb 100644 --- a/evals/claude/expected.json +++ b/evals/claude/expected.json @@ -358,7 +358,6 @@ "primary": "story-craft-research", "supporting": [], "prohibited": [ - "story-drafting", "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", diff --git a/evals/codex/expected.json b/evals/codex/expected.json index da147ac..223a3bb 100644 --- a/evals/codex/expected.json +++ b/evals/codex/expected.json @@ -358,7 +358,6 @@ "primary": "story-craft-research", "supporting": [], "prohibited": [ - "story-drafting", "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", diff --git a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json index 706c377..85bf331 100644 --- a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json +++ b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json @@ -532,7 +532,6 @@ "supporting": [], "prohibited": [ "native-focused-edit", - "story-drafting", "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", diff --git a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py index c85fb88..81b5289 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self self.assertEqual({'standalone-document','documentation-set','existing-documentation-plan','documentation-pdf','tutorial-video-script','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review','video-one-line-correction', # Story-positive cases: a story skill is primary and the reader prose skills are prohibited. 'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback', - # Study vault: story-craft-research is primary and declines the request; story-drafting is prohibited. + # Study vault: story-craft-research is primary and the request is declined; story-drafting may be opened for its mode check. 'study-vault-draft-request', # Negative cases: every story skill is prohibited. 'story-vault-readme','docs-release-note','story-world-tutorial-video','story-method-documentation','vault-parent-session'},{c['id'] for c in matrix}) @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self else: self.assertTrue(STORY <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) if case['id']=='study-vault-draft-request': - self.assertIn('story-drafting',case['prohibited']) + # The drafting skill may be opened: its own mode check is what declines the request. The harness cannot see the refusal, only the selection. + self.assertEqual('story-craft-research',case['primary']) + self.assertNotIn('story-drafting',case['prohibited']) # Both hosts expect the same selection for every routing case that has a trigger file. triggers={json.loads(p.read_text())['id'] for p in (ROOT/'evals/shared/triggers').glob('*.json')} expected={host:json.loads((ROOT/'evals'/host/'expected.json').read_text()) for host in ('claude','codex')} From c68dbc181ee9b20bd775a3868f56bf7b5f08f7ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:13:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 04/11] docs(story): record the host routing rehearsal (WM-003) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- README.md | 2 +- docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9de3e69..6be2b43 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The assistant marks the vault as a story, gives it a story ID and asks for the f - **Routing is statistical.** The tests prove that names, exclusion sentences and links are in place. Whether an assistant then picks the right family for a request is a probability, not a guarantee. - **Produced text is not measured.** No check reads a chapter for documentation habits, or a reply for a story's voice. - **No story pilot exists.** The skills are structurally checked and have not been proven on a real story. Light-novel figures such as volume length are left unset, not asserted. -- **Host routing evaluations have not been run.** The routing cases for the story family ship under `evals/shared/triggers/`; no Claude or Codex result is claimed for them. +- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** The twelve story routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` pass on Claude and Codex after two corrections; the record, including the two expectations changed after the first run, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. The earlier documentation and video cases were not rerun with the story family present, and OpenCode was not exercised. The family originated in a private research workspace. That workspace's research notes and its studies of existing works are not part of this plugin. diff --git a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71d9505 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# Host routing rehearsal: story family + +Run on 2026-11-13 on macOS with Claude Code 2.1.323 and Codex CLI 0.169.0, using +`scripts/run_host_evals.py` (Claude with `--native-auth`). The harness scores +which skills a host selects in one assessment turn. It does not read produced +text and does not see whether a request was declined. + +## First run at `788fb4e`: twelve new cases per host + +| Host | Passed | Failed (`unexpected_selection`) | +|---|---|---| +| Claude | 11 of 12 | `study-vault-draft-request` | +| Codex | 9 of 12 | `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review`, `story-method-documentation` | + +In all four failures the primary skill was the expected one. The failure was an +additional skill that the case prohibited. + +| Case | What the host did | Disposition | +|---|---|---| +| `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review` (Codex) | Opened `project-backlog` inside the story vault while looking for a recovery preamble; one run proposed initializing run state there | Defect. Every story skill now states that it has no recovery preamble and that a vault keeps no backlog or run directory. | +| `story-method-documentation` (Codex) | Read `story-bootstrap` as source material for the guide | Expectation was too strict. Only `story-drafting` and `story-voice-review` stay prohibited. Changed after seeing the result. | +| `study-vault-draft-request` (Claude) | Opened `story-drafting`, read its mode check and declined the draft | Expectation was wrong: that mode check is the designed mechanism. `story-drafting` is no longer prohibited. Changed after seeing the result. | + +## Reruns + +| Case | Host | Revision | Result | +|---|---|---|---| +| `story-canon-review` | Codex | `3a331b3` | 3 of 3 passed | +| `story-voice-review` | Codex | `3a331b3` | 3 of 3 passed | +| `story-method-documentation` | Codex | `3a331b3` | 3 of 3 passed | +| `study-vault-draft-request` | Claude | `3a331b3`, old expectation | 0 of 3 passed, same behaviour each time | +| `study-vault-draft-request` | Claude | `be08565`, corrected expectation | 2 of 2 passed | + +No run selected a reader prose skill as primary for manuscript work, or a story +skill as primary for a README, release note, tutorial video or method guide. + +## Not covered + +- The nine routing cases that existed before this work were not rerun, so an + effect of the eight added skills on documentation and video routing is + unmeasured. +- Each case ran once per host in the first run; the reruns cover only the four + failed cases. No five-run rate exists for the other cases. +- Leakage of one family's rules into produced text, a reply inside a vault and + multi-turn sessions are not measurable with this harness. +- OpenCode was not exercised. From 6cea0d3621eeb99d9b1844b80625789f0cf732b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:52:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 05/11] docs(story): record the regression run of the earlier routing cases (WM-003) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- README.md | 2 +- docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md | 36 +++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6be2b43..9ec9194 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The assistant marks the vault as a story, gives it a story ID and asks for the f - **Routing is statistical.** The tests prove that names, exclusion sentences and links are in place. Whether an assistant then picks the right family for a request is a probability, not a guarantee. - **Produced text is not measured.** No check reads a chapter for documentation habits, or a reply for a story's voice. - **No story pilot exists.** The skills are structurally checked and have not been proven on a real story. Light-novel figures such as volume length are left unset, not asserted. -- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** The twelve story routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` pass on Claude and Codex after two corrections; the record, including the two expectations changed after the first run, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. The earlier documentation and video cases were not rerun with the story family present, and OpenCode was not exercised. +- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** The twelve story routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` pass on Claude and Codex after two corrections; the record, including the two expectations changed after the first run, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. With the story family present, eight of the nine earlier documentation and video cases pass on both hosts; `presentation-video-production` fails, as it already does on Codex without the story family. OpenCode was not exercised. The family originated in a private research workspace. That workspace's research notes and its studies of existing works are not part of this plugin. diff --git a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md index 71d9505..5501070 100644 --- a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md +++ b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md @@ -34,11 +34,41 @@ additional skill that the case prohibited. No run selected a reader prose skill as primary for manuscript work, or a story skill as primary for a README, release note, tutorial video or method guide. +## Regression: the nine earlier cases at `c68dbc1` + +| Host | Passed | Failed (`unexpected_selection`) | +|---|---|---| +| Claude | 8 of 9 | `presentation-video-production` | +| Codex | 8 of 9 | `presentation-video-production` | + +The documentation, PDF, tutorial-script, video-review and out-of-scope cases +passed on both hosts with the story family present. No story skill was selected +in any of the eighteen runs. + +In the failing case both hosts chose `presentation-video-production` as primary +and additionally applied `documentation-authoring`, which the case prohibits. +The production skill itself sends the reader to the recovery preamble of +`documentation-authoring`. Neither that skill nor the case is changed by this +work. + +Baseline comparison of that one case against release 0.3.0 (`29752ab`, without +the story family): + +| Host | 0.3.0 | This branch | +|---|---|---| +| Codex | 0 of 1 passed | 0 of 1 passed | +| Claude | 2 of 3 passed | 0 of 3 passed | + +On Codex the failure exists without the story family. On Claude the case is +unstable without it, and failed every time with it. Three runs per side do not +show whether this branch makes the case worse. The cause, a production skill +that requires a skill its routing case prohibits, belongs to WM-001 and is not +fixed here. + ## Not covered -- The nine routing cases that existed before this work were not rerun, so an - effect of the eight added skills on documentation and video routing is - unmeasured. +- The earlier cases ran once per host; apart from `presentation-video-production` + no rate exists for them. - Each case ran once per host in the first run; the reruns cover only the four failed cases. No five-run rate exists for the other cases. - Leakage of one family's rules into produced text, a reply inside a vault and From 1d389c35fd2e4e00ffea0358bbce7d83437457b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:57:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 06/11] fix(video): take the recovery gate from the backlog skill, not from documentation-authoring The three video skills delegated their recovery preamble to documentation-authoring, so hosts applied a documentation skill that the video production routing case prohibits. They now link the backlog skill's recovery gate and operational handoffs directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md | 5 +++-- skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md | 5 +++-- skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md | 5 +++-- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md b/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md index 82e2128..83fda2a 100644 --- a/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md @@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ first request to a provider. ## Recovery preamble -Follow the recovery preamble and the operational state handoffs of -[documentation-authoring](../documentation-authoring/SKILL.md#recovery-preamble). +Follow the [recovery gate](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#recovery-gate) and the +[operational handoffs](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#operational-handoffs) of the +backlog skill directly. No documentation skill is part of the video lifecycle. For an untracked single video, the files on disk are the state: completed sound is reused, so every step can be run again after an interruption. diff --git a/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md b/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md index 897ea6e..ef01051 100644 --- a/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ fix them. Corrections return to scripting or production. ## Recovery preamble -Follow the recovery preamble and the operational state handoffs of -[documentation-authoring](../documentation-authoring/SKILL.md#recovery-preamble). +Follow the [recovery gate](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#recovery-gate) and the +[operational handoffs](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#operational-handoffs) of the +backlog skill directly. No documentation skill is part of the video lifecycle. For an untracked single video the review record on disk is the state. ## Trigger diff --git a/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md b/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md index e456fb5..ddda462 100644 --- a/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md @@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ owns the form. ## Recovery preamble -Follow the recovery preamble and the operational state handoffs of -[documentation-authoring](../documentation-authoring/SKILL.md#recovery-preamble). +Follow the [recovery gate](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#recovery-gate) and the +[operational handoffs](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#operational-handoffs) of the +backlog skill directly. No documentation skill is part of the video lifecycle. A single video whose project backlog tracks no stable work ID needs no run: record the verified-absent discovery in the reply and treat the committed script as the checkpoint. From 2a450b2d3a10ccae63bce1be58c267dae1f083b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:19:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 07/11] feat(story): narrated story videos from a story vault (WM-004) Adds story-video-scripting: an accepted chapter becomes the script of a narrated presentation video, verbatim by default or as a listening edition with author-approved changes; the written manuscript stays untouched. The two video production skills become a form family that serves tutorial and story videos and never restyles story text. The script check accepts purpose story without sources and requires edition and based_on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 --- README.md | 16 +- docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md | 79 ++++++++- docs/usage.md | 26 +++ evals/claude/expected.json | 50 +++++- evals/codex/expected.json | 50 +++++- .../triggers/story-video-production.json | 11 ++ evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json | 16 ++ method.json | 1 + shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md | 4 +- shared/policies/writing-mode.md | 41 +++-- shared/story/story-development.md | 16 +- shared/story/voice-and-tone.md | 2 + shared/story/workflow.md | 10 ++ skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md | 35 +++- skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md | 45 ++++- skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md | 161 ++++++++++++++++++ skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md | 3 +- templates/presentation-video/README.md | 28 +++ .../presentation-video/tools/check_script.py | 26 ++- templates/presentation-video/tools/profile.py | 3 +- .../06-manuscript/editions/.gitkeep | 0 templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md | 7 + .../90-templates/listening-edition.md | 13 ++ templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md | 4 +- templates/story-vault/START.md | 3 + tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json | 72 +++++++- tests/test_presentation_video.py | 87 ++++++++++ tests/test_writing_contracts.py | 30 +++- tests/test_writing_mode.py | 116 +++++++++++-- 29 files changed, 880 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-) create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-video-production.json create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json create mode 100644 skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md create mode 100644 templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/editions/.gitkeep create mode 100644 templates/story-vault/90-templates/listening-edition.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9ec9194..79e7789 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ The three repositories remain under `phense`, share the `agent-methods` topic an | Explain and instruct | explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting | | Keep prose and documents consistent | human-prose-drafting, terminology-guard, visual-placeholders | | Script, produce and review narrated tutorial videos | tutorial-video-scripting, presentation-video-production, presentation-video-review | -| Write stories (experimental, separate family) | story-bootstrap, story-worldbuilding, story-characters, story-architecture, story-drafting, story-canon-review, story-voice-review, story-craft-research | +| Write stories (experimental, separate family) | story-bootstrap, story-worldbuilding, story-characters, story-architecture, story-drafting, story-canon-review, story-voice-review, story-craft-research, story-video-scripting | | Shared support from Core | project-backlog, verification-before-completion, requesting-code-review, receiving-code-review, using-git-worktrees, dispatching-parallel-agents, playbook-authoring, playbook-review | Describe the outcome to your assistant. A small wording edit needs focused editing; a standalone document uses authoring and self-review; a coherent document set uses planning, authoring and review. PDF generation follows content review and offers two layouts: a single-sided one for short documents and a book layout with parts, mirrored pages and a running head for long manuals. A tutorial video is scripted, produced and reviewed in that order; see [Narrated tutorial videos](#narrated-tutorial-videos). Playbooks support concrete publication/export operations when their decisions or recovery needs warrant one; ordinary writing does not automatically create one. @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ Each story lives in its own directory with its own Git repository, called a **st | Check a chapter against the accepted canon | story-canon-review | | Judge chapters against the voice sheet | story-voice-review | | Study craft sources and existing works | story-craft-research | +| Script a narrated video from an accepted chapter | story-video-scripting | ### Which rules apply to which text @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ The rule set is chosen for each piece of text, not for the session or the subjec | Text | Mode | Governed by | |---|---|---| -| Story prose, in-world text such as a letter or manual inside the story, afterword and blurb | manuscript | The story's voice sheet, then the story rules. Nothing from the documentation skills. | +| Story prose, in-world text such as a letter or manual inside the story, afterword and blurb, a listening edition, the narration of a story video | manuscript | The story's voice sheet, then the story rules. Nothing from the documentation skills. | | Any other note in a story vault or study vault: brief, world entry, chapter card, review, study note | working note | The story skills. Plain notes without the story's voice and without didactic structure. | | Everything else: every reply to you, a vault's `README.md`, documentation, tutorial videos | reader-oriented | The rules of the sections above, unchanged | @@ -88,12 +89,21 @@ The full rule, including how a vault is recognized and when drafting is permitte The assistant marks the vault as a story, gives it a story ID and asks for the form (long or short) and the publication profile, which may stay unset. Check: the frontmatter of `00-project/brief.md` now reads `kind: story`. Drafting starts only after viewpoint, tense and distance are set in `00-project/voice.md`; until then the assistant leads you to a voice trial instead of writing a chapter. +### Narrated story videos + +An accepted chapter, a range of chapters or a short piece can become a narrated video: an audiobook with pictures. The work is split by who owns what. The story family owns the text: `story-video-scripting` turns the accepted manuscript into the script of a video project. `presentation-video-production` and `presentation-video-review` voice, render and check that script and never restyle it. + +The narration comes in one of two **editions**. A `verbatim` edition reads the accepted manuscript word for word, only cut into scenes and lines at sentence boundaries. A `listening` edition contains additions or changes for the ear; each one is your decision, and it is stored beside the manuscript, which stays unchanged. A video that explains a story's world to its readers is a tutorial video and stays with `tutorial-video-scripting`. + +No video has been produced with this path. How invented names are pronounced and where the pictures come from are not designed yet: the existing pronunciation list is used as it is, and a scene's picture is a plain description in the script. + ### Limits - **Routing is statistical.** The tests prove that names, exclusion sentences and links are in place. Whether an assistant then picks the right family for a request is a probability, not a guarantee. - **Produced text is not measured.** No check reads a chapter for documentation habits, or a reply for a story's voice. - **No story pilot exists.** The skills are structurally checked and have not been proven on a real story. Light-novel figures such as volume length are left unset, not asserted. -- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** The twelve story routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` pass on Claude and Codex after two corrections; the record, including the two expectations changed after the first run, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. With the story family present, eight of the nine earlier documentation and video cases pass on both hosts; `presentation-video-production` fails, as it already does on Codex without the story family. OpenCode was not exercised. +- **No story video exists.** The script check and the routing expectations for story videos are tested; nothing has been voiced or rendered from a story script. +- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** The twelve story routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` pass on Claude and Codex after two corrections; the record, including the two expectations changed after the first run, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. With the story family present, eight of the nine earlier documentation and video cases pass on both hosts; `presentation-video-production` fails, as it already does on Codex without the story family. The two story video cases added later, `story-video-script` and `story-video-production`, have not been run on a host. OpenCode was not exercised. The family originated in a private research workspace. That workspace's research notes and its studies of existing works are not part of this plugin. diff --git a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md index e95b276..8f86758 100644 --- a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md +++ b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ Where the text below still presents these points as open, the table decides. |---|---| | Story family | The skills, rules and templates for fiction. Every skill name starts with `story-`. | | Reader family | Everything Writing Method does today: didactic replies, documentation, PDF, presentation videos. | +| Form skill | Added by WM-004: a skill that voices, renders or checks an accepted video script for either family and never restyles its text. | +| Edition | Added by WM-004: the text a story video narrates, `verbatim` or `listening`. | | Story vault | One story's own directory and Git repository: brief, voice sheet, canon, plans, manuscript. Marked `kind: story`. | | Study vault | An analysis vault for an existing, third-party work. Marked `kind: study`. | | Manuscript | Story prose and in-world text (a letter, report or manual that exists inside the story), plus afterword and blurb. | @@ -176,7 +178,8 @@ separation is deterministic. | An in-world document, including an in-world how-to manual | `manuscript` under `story-drafting` | | A story excerpt quoted in documentation | Quoted material, unchanged | | An explanatory narrated video about a story or its world | `tutorial-video-scripting` | -| Dramatised fiction: audiobook, narrated story video | Outside the method for now | +| Narration of a story video (audiobook with pictures) | `manuscript`, written or adapted by `story-video-scripting`; voiced and rendered by the form skills, which never restyle it. See [Extension WM-004](#extension-wm-004-narrated-story-videos). | +| Other dramatised fiction: an audiobook without video, a staged reading | Outside the method for now | | Beta-reader or author feedback on a chapter | `story-canon-review` or `story-voice-review`; not `receiving-code-review` | | Notes and craft exercises in a study vault | `working-note` under `story-craft-research`; never drafting against the studied work's canon | @@ -261,9 +264,79 @@ Tone for documents stays in `human-prose-drafting`. There is no shared tone skil | Candidate | Gate | |---|---| | `story-revision` (ordered passes over a range) | The three-chapter pilot shows the pass order holds | -| `story-manuscript-export` (EPUB or PDF per volume) | A decision on a neutral typesetting directory shared with `documentation-pdf`, or duplicated templates | +| `story-manuscript-export` (EPUB or PDF per volume; the e-book) | Still deferred after WM-004. A decision on a neutral typesetting directory shared with `documentation-pdf`, or duplicated templates | +| Pronunciation of invented names in story videos | An owner decision on how names are fixed per story; until then the existing pronunciation list is used as it is | +| Image sourcing for story videos | An owner decision on the origin of pictures; until then a scene's picture is a plain description | | Illustration briefs | Light-novel source cards exist | +## Extension WM-004: narrated story videos + +Added on 2026-11-13 in the same branch. It replaces the earlier disposition +"narrated story video: outside the method for now". Where the sections above +count eight story skills, thirteen reader skills or two families, this section +decides. + +### Owner decisions of 2026-11-13 + +| Question | Decision | +|---|---| +| Scope | A story from a story vault can become a narrated presentation video: an audiobook with pictures. | +| Narration text | Two editions must be possible. `verbatim`: the accepted manuscript, most likely the usual case. `listening`: a derived text with author-approved additions or changes for the ear. | +| Written manuscript | Producing a listening edition never changes it. The manuscript remains the e-book text. | +| Pronunciation of invented names | Not designed now. The existing pronunciation list is used as it is. | +| Origin of images | Not designed now. A scene's picture is a plain description. | + +### Model + +Purpose and form are separate axes, as WM-001 already states for videos. The +story family owns the text (purpose: story). The form skills voice, time, +render and check an accepted script and never restyle its text. + +| Element | Rule | +|---|---| +| Family `form` | `presentation-video-production` and `presentation-video-review` leave the reader family. They serve tutorial videos and story videos. The policy block now holds three families: story (9), reader (11), form (2). | +| `story-video-scripting` | Ninth story skill. Turns an accepted chapter, range or short piece of a `kind: story` vault into the script files of a video project copied from `templates/presentation-video/`. It never voices or renders. It carries the mode check, the precedence clause and the no-run-state paragraph. | +| Edition `verbatim` | Narration lines are the accepted manuscript at a named revision, segmented into scenes and lines at sentence boundaries. No word is added, dropped or changed. | +| Edition `listening` | A derived edition under `06-manuscript/editions/listening/.md`, prose only, with `based_on_revision` and `edition_revision` in its frontmatter. Every difference from the manuscript is an author decision recorded there. It is manuscript mode, follows the voice sheet, is not canon and changes no canon. | +| Video project | Lives outside `06-manuscript/`, at a path the author names. `video.json` carries `"purpose": "story"`, `edition`, `story_id` and `based_on`, a list of chapter ID and revision. `audience` and `address` stay required. | +| Scenes | `message` is a one-line working note of what happens, not spoken. The picture is a plain description in `script/script.md`. | +| Rules for the narration | Manuscript mode: the voice sheet overrides the reader rules. The tutorial listening style does not apply. The provider-neutral speech-synthesis rules apply to voicing. | +| Script check | With `"purpose": "story"`: no source table and no per-scene source; `edition` and `based_on` are required; no sentence-length warning. All other checks stay. Without `purpose`, or with `"purpose": "tutorial"`, behaviour is unchanged. An unknown purpose is an error. | +| Form skills on a story script | Production voices and renders it as it is. Review gate 1 checks every narration line against the named edition at its revision (verbatim: word for word) instead of sources and honesty; the listening check judges pronunciation, pace and pauses, not style. | +| Wording findings | Return to `story-video-scripting` and the author: a transcription fix for `verbatim`, an author decision for `listening`. Never to `tutorial-video-scripting`. | +| Acceptance | The script is accepted by the author; that is a decision, not a command result. | +| Tutorial video about a story | Unchanged: `tutorial-video-scripting`. | + +### Separation after the extension + +- Story files may additionally link the video project template, the two form + skills and the speech-synthesis rules, and may name the form skills in + backticks. +- Form skills link into neither story directory. They may link the hub and may + name skills of both families in backticks. +- Reader files keep their rules. `lifecycle-handoffs.md` is unchanged and still + contains no `story-` name; the handoff from the story script to production is + stated in the story skill and in `shared/story/story-development.md`. +- The policy block gains `form_link_deny_prefixes` and the manuscript path + `06-manuscript/editions/`. + +### Verification and limits + +- Deterministic: the three families partition the method skills; the firewall + rules above; the listening-edition template and the editions directory exist + in the starter; the script check accepts a story script without sources and + rejects one without `edition` or `based_on`. +- Routing cases added: `story-video-script` (primary `story-video-scripting`; + the reader prose skills, review-feedback handling, the backlog skill and + `presentation-video-production` prohibited) and `story-video-production` + (primary `presentation-video-production`; scripting, drafting, voice review + and the didactic skills prohibited). The four negative cases that prohibit every story + skill now also prohibit `story-video-scripting`. None of these has been run on a host. +- No story video has been produced: no provider call and no render belong to + this extension. +- Still deferred: delivery as an e-book (`story-manuscript-export`), + pronunciation of invented names, image sourcing. + ## Changes to the existing reader family - `lifecycle-selection.md` and `reader-oriented-output.md`: link the mode policy @@ -343,7 +416,7 @@ and `tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json`. | Private or study-derived material enters the public package | Port table; package test; licence decision covers study-derived guidance | | Work in the private workspace is lost | Step 1 is a precondition; copy until step 11 | | The template change breaks existing study vaults | Study vaults keep their layout; only new story vaults use the split | -| 29 descriptions reduce trigger precision for documentation | Existing cases as regression gate | +| 30 descriptions (29 before WM-004) reduce trigger precision for documentation | Existing cases as regression gate | ## Open decisions for the owner diff --git a/docs/usage.md b/docs/usage.md index 61dcb5b..6c132e5 100644 --- a/docs/usage.md +++ b/docs/usage.md @@ -130,6 +130,32 @@ voice trial first. The chapter is complete when `story-canon-review` has reviewed it at a named revision and you have accepted it; your acceptance is a decision, not a command result. +## Turn an accepted chapter into a narrated video + +> Turn chapter 11 into a narrated video. Read it exactly as it is written. + +`story-video-scripting` checks the vault as `story-drafting` does, then checks +that the chapter is accepted at a named revision. It copies the video project +template to the directory you name, outside `06-manuscript/`, and writes the +script files. `video.json` records `"purpose": "story"`, `"edition": +"verbatim"` and the chapter with its revision. Every narration line is the +manuscript text, cut at sentence boundaries; no word is added, dropped or +changed. A scene's picture is a plain description in `script/script.md`. +`python3 tools/check_script.py` must report no errors; a story script needs no +source table. The script is ready when you have accepted it. + +If the text should differ for the ear, ask for a listening edition instead. +Each difference from the manuscript is then your decision and is recorded in +an edition file under `06-manuscript/editions/listening/`. The chapter itself +stays unchanged. + +`presentation-video-production` then voices and renders the accepted script as +it is, and `presentation-video-review` checks each narration line against the +named edition. A finding about wording returns to `story-video-scripting` and +to you, never to a rewrite during production. This path is experimental: no +video has been produced with it, and the pronunciation of invented names and +the origin of the pictures are not designed yet. + ## Ask a question inside a story vault > Why does chapter 11 feel slow, and what should I look at first? diff --git a/evals/claude/expected.json b/evals/claude/expected.json index 223a3bb..0a3e192 100644 --- a/evals/claude/expected.json +++ b/evals/claude/expected.json @@ -292,6 +292,44 @@ "decision.md" ] }, + "story-video-script": { + "primary": "story-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog", + "presentation-video-production" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-video-production": { + "primary": "presentation-video-production", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "story-drafting", + "story-voice-review", + "documentation-authoring", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, "story-vault-readme": { "primary": "documentation-authoring", "supporting": [], @@ -303,7 +341,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" @@ -320,7 +359,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" @@ -337,7 +377,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" @@ -385,7 +426,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" diff --git a/evals/codex/expected.json b/evals/codex/expected.json index 223a3bb..0a3e192 100644 --- a/evals/codex/expected.json +++ b/evals/codex/expected.json @@ -292,6 +292,44 @@ "decision.md" ] }, + "story-video-script": { + "primary": "story-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog", + "presentation-video-production" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, + "story-video-production": { + "primary": "presentation-video-production", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "story-drafting", + "story-voice-review", + "documentation-authoring", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, "story-vault-readme": { "primary": "documentation-authoring", "supporting": [], @@ -303,7 +341,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" @@ -320,7 +359,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" @@ -337,7 +377,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" @@ -385,7 +426,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "artifacts": [ "decision.md" diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-production.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-production.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bc9e93 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-production.json @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +{ + "id": "story-video-production", + "prompt": "The script of the story video in videos/ch-011 passed the script check and is accepted by the author. It reads chapter 11 of Ember Road verbatim. Voice it, derive the timeline and render the video. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not voice or render yet.", + "files": { + "README.md": "# Videos\n\nvideos/ch-011 holds the accepted script of a story video: chapter 11 of Ember Road, read verbatim.\n", + "videos/ch-011/video.json": "{\"id\": \"ch-011\", \"title\": \"Ember Road, chapter 11\", \"audience\": \"Listeners of the story Ember Road\", \"address\": \"none\", \"goal\": \"The listener hears chapter 11 as it is written.\", \"recreated\": false, \"purpose\": \"story\", \"edition\": \"verbatim\", \"story_id\": \"ember-road\", \"based_on\": [{\"chapter_id\": \"ch-011\", \"revision\": \"r2\"}]}\n", + "videos/ch-011/script/script.md": "# Script: Ember Road, chapter 11\n\nStory video. Purpose: story. Edition: verbatim. Based on ch-011 at revision r2. Every narration line is the accepted manuscript text, segmented at sentence boundaries; no word is added, dropped or changed.\n\n## Audience\n\nListeners of the story Ember Road.\n\n## Goal\n\nThe listener hears chapter 11 as it is written.\n\n## Chapters and scenes\n\n| Chapter | Scene | Message | On screen |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Chapter 11 | well | Sena is refused water at the last well and is let through on her courier's knot. | A stone well at first light, a coiled rope |\n| Chapter 11 | salt | Sena enters the salt with the sealed letter. | A white plain at noon, one walker |\n\n## Acceptance\n\nAccepted by the author. The script check passed.\n", + "videos/ch-011/src/scenes.json": "[\n {\"key\": \"well\", \"chapter\": \"Chapter 11\", \"message\": \"Sena is refused water at the last well and is let through on her courier's knot.\"},\n {\"key\": \"salt\", \"chapter\": \"Chapter 11\", \"message\": \"Sena enters the salt with the sealed letter.\"}\n]\n", + "videos/ch-011/src/narration.json": "{\n \"well\": [\n {\"text\": \"Sena reached the last well before the salt at first light.\"},\n {\"text\": \"The keeper had already drawn the rope up and coiled it on the stone.\"},\n {\"text\": \"\\\"Guild water is paid at the gate,\\\" he said. \\\"Not here.\\\"\"},\n {\"text\": \"She showed him the courier's knot on her sleeve.\"},\n {\"text\": \"He looked at it for as long as it took a mule to drink, then let the rope down again.\"}\n ],\n \"salt\": [\n {\"text\": \"By noon the salt had begun to sing under her boots.\"},\n {\"text\": \"She kept the sealed letter flat against her ribs and did not look back at the well.\"}\n ]\n}\n" + } +} diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7aedf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +{ + "id": "story-video-script", + "prompt": "Turn chapter 11 of this story into the script of a narrated video, an audiobook with pictures. The chapter is accepted at revision r2 in 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md and is to be read verbatim. The video project goes to 08-video/ch-011/. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write the script and do not voice anything.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md": "---\nid: ch-011\nstory_id: ember-road\ntype: chapter\ncanon_status: accepted\nchapter_number: 11\narc_id: arc-01\npov_id: sena\ndraft_status: accepted\naccepted_revision: r2\nvoice_revision: V1\n---\n# Chapter 11 card\n\nProse file: 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md\n\n## Beats\n\n1. Sena reaches the last well, but the keeper refuses guild water.\n2. Therefore she shows the courier's knot and is let through.\n3. She enters the salt with the sealed letter.\n\n## Acceptance\n\nAccepted by the author at revision r2 after the canon review.\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md": "Sena reached the last well before the salt at first light. The keeper had already drawn the rope up and coiled it on the stone.\n\n\"Guild water is paid at the gate,\" he said. \"Not here.\"\n\nShe showed him the courier's knot on her sleeve. He looked at it for as long as it took a mule to drink, then let the rope down again.\n\nBy noon the salt had begun to sing under her boots. She kept the sealed letter flat against her ribs and did not look back at the well.\n" + } +} diff --git a/method.json b/method.json index 93b6039..32c2d9c 100644 --- a/method.json +++ b/method.json @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ "story-characters", "story-craft-research", "story-drafting", + "story-video-scripting", "story-voice-review", "story-worldbuilding", "terminology-guard", diff --git a/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md b/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md index 54b1093..9a873f2 100644 --- a/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md +++ b/shared/policies/lifecycle-selection.md @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ A narrated tutorial video uses tutorial-video-scripting, then presentation-video then presentation-video-review; a correction to an existing video starts at the phase that owns it. "Tutorial" names the purpose and "presentation video" the form: a video composed from designed scenes and synthesized narration. Marketing or social clips, -filmed material and screen recordings are outside this method. +filmed material and screen recordings are outside this method. A narrated story +video is scripted by the story family and produced and reviewed by the same two +video form skills, as the [writing mode](writing-mode.md) policy states. Shared playbook-authoring and playbook-review support scenario-bound operations including publication and export recovery; ordinary text or a simple PDF does not diff --git a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md index 4685018..9f56d14 100644 --- a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md +++ b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md @@ -1,17 +1,21 @@ # Writing Mode Status: experimental. This policy separates two families of skills in one -plugin and decides which rule set governs one piece of output. It makes no +plugin, names the form skills that serve both, and decides which rule set +governs one piece of output. It makes no quality claim for either family and rests on no pilot evidence. - The **story family** covers fiction: every skill whose name starts with `story-`, the files under `shared/story/` and the vault starter under `templates/story-vault/`. - The **reader family** covers everything else this method writes: didactic - replies, documentation, PDF delivery and presentation videos. + replies, documentation, PDF delivery and tutorial-video scripts. +- The **form family** writes no text of its own: `presentation-video-production` + and `presentation-video-review` voice, time, render and check an accepted + video script of either family and never restyle its narration. -This file is the neutral hub and the authority for the mode rule. Both families -refer to it; it links into neither. The operative sentences that skills and +This file is the neutral hub and the authority for the mode rule. All three +families refer to it; it links into none. The operative sentences that skills and vault files carry are stored in the policy block at the end and are tested against it. @@ -25,6 +29,8 @@ against it. | Manuscript | Story prose and in-world text (a letter, report or manual that exists inside the story), plus paratext: afterword, author note and blurb. | | Working note | Any other vault file that is neither a reader-facing vault file nor a reader-facing deliverable: brief, world entry, character note, arc, chapter card, canon review, study note. | | Voice sheet | `00-project/voice.md` of a story vault. It overrides every method default for how that story's manuscript sounds. | +| Form skill | A skill that owns a delivery form, not a text. It takes an accepted script from the reader family (a tutorial video) or the story family (a story video) and changes no wording. | +| Edition | The text a story video narrates. `verbatim`: the accepted manuscript, only segmented into scenes and lines at sentence boundaries. `listening`: a derived text with changes for the ear, each one an author decision recorded in the edition file. The written manuscript stays unchanged; a listening edition is not canon. | | Writing mode | The rule set that governs one piece of output: `manuscript`, `working-note` or `reader-oriented`. | ## Mode decision @@ -67,6 +73,11 @@ has fixed locations. The vault's `form` field selects between two layouts. | `long-form` | Prose-only files under `06-manuscript/chapters/`, one per chapter; afterword, author note and blurb under `06-manuscript/paratext/` | The chapter card with context packet, beats, summary, canon delta and review, under `05-plot/chapters/` | | `short-form` | The text under the heading `## Manuscript` of the piece's single note in `06-manuscript/pieces/` | Everything outside that heading in the same note | +In both forms a listening edition is a prose-only file under +`06-manuscript/editions/listening/`, one per chapter or piece. It is manuscript +and follows the voice sheet; it names the manuscript revision it is based on. +A verbatim edition needs no file: the manuscript itself is the text. + The split into prose files applies to long-form work only. A short piece keeps card and prose in one note, and the heading draws the line: only the text under `## Manuscript` is manuscript, although the note lives in `06-manuscript/pieces/`. @@ -84,7 +95,7 @@ read, and this file is what they are compared with. |---|---| | Description of every story skill | Ends with the exclusion of session replies, documentation and presentation videos | | First paragraph of every story skill body | The mode check: find the vault, read its kind | -| Second paragraph of `story-drafting` and `story-voice-review` | The precedence sentence: the voice sheet overrides the four didactic and prose skills for manuscript text | +| Second paragraph of the story skills listed under `precedence_story_skills` | The precedence sentence: the voice sheet overrides the four didactic and prose skills for manuscript text | | Description of the eight reader skills listed under `excluded_reader_skills` | Ends with the exclusion of story manuscripts and in-world text | | First paragraph of the four reader skill bodies listed under `precedence_reader_skills` | Stop when the target is manuscript, and use the story family | | `AGENTS.md` of a story vault, with `CLAUDE.md` as its adapter | The mode rule in three sentences, written or refreshed by `story-bootstrap` when it creates or resumes a vault | @@ -95,7 +106,7 @@ read, and this file is what they are compared with. |---|---|---| | 1. Names | Every story skill starts with `story-`; no name equals a shared, reader or engineering skill name or contains `continuity` | The names are as stated | | 2. Descriptions and opening lines | Reciprocal exclusions and the precedence sentence | The sentences are present and equal the policy block. Whether a model follows them is statistical. | -| 3. Link firewall | Story files link only into `shared/story/`, `templates/story-vault/`, other story skills, this file, `shared/policies/proportionality.md` and `skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md`. Reader files never link into the story directories. Backticked skill names are checked against the family map as well. | A skill cannot pull the other family's rule files in through links | +| 3. Link firewall | Story files link only into `shared/story/`, `templates/story-vault/`, other story skills, this file, `shared/policies/proportionality.md` and `skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md`. For a story video they also link the video project template, the two form skills and `shared/media/speech-synthesis.md`. Reader files and form skills never link into the story directories. Backticked skill names are checked against the family map as well; form skills may be named by both families and may name skills of both. | A skill cannot pull the other family's rule files in through links | | 4. No lifecycle graph | No story skill appears in `shared/policies/lifecycle-handoffs.md` | The graph contains no story node | | 5. Vault kind | Only `kind: story` permits drafting, and only with the three voice fields filled | The starter and the skills state the rule | @@ -130,7 +141,9 @@ not that a host obeys it. | An in-world document, including an in-world how-to manual | `manuscript`, under `story-drafting` | | A story excerpt quoted in documentation | Quoted material, unchanged | | An explanatory narrated video about a story or its world | `reader-oriented`, under `tutorial-video-scripting` | -| Dramatised fiction: an audiobook or a narrated story video | Outside the method for now | +| A tutorial video about a story, its world or the story method | Stays with `tutorial-video-scripting`, also inside a story vault; no story skill scripts it | +| Narration of a story video (an accepted chapter, range or short piece read aloud over pictures) | `manuscript`, written by the story family under `story-video-scripting`, as a `verbatim` or a `listening` edition; voiced and rendered by the form skills, which never restyle it. Wording findings return to the story family and the author. | +| Any other dramatised fiction: an audio-only book, a performance with several voices | Outside the method for now | | Beta-reader or author feedback on a chapter | `story-canon-review` for canon, `story-voice-review` for voice; not `receiving-code-review` | | Notes and craft exercises in a study vault | `working-note`, under `story-craft-research`; never a draft against the studied work's canon | @@ -161,25 +174,27 @@ The entries under `sentences` are the exact text the carriers hold. "schema_version": 1, "status": "experimental", "families": { - "story": ["story-bootstrap", "story-worldbuilding", "story-characters", "story-architecture", "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review"], - "reader": ["documentation-planning", "documentation-authoring", "documentation-review", "documentation-pdf", "human-prose-drafting", "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "terminology-guard", "visual-placeholders", "tutorial-video-scripting", "presentation-video-production", "presentation-video-review"] + "story": ["story-bootstrap", "story-worldbuilding", "story-characters", "story-architecture", "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review", "story-video-scripting"], + "reader": ["documentation-planning", "documentation-authoring", "documentation-review", "documentation-pdf", "human-prose-drafting", "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "terminology-guard", "visual-placeholders", "tutorial-video-scripting"], + "form": ["presentation-video-production", "presentation-video-review"] }, "hub": "shared/policies/writing-mode.md", "story_link_allow": { - "prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], - "files": ["shared/policies/writing-mode.md", "shared/policies/proportionality.md", "skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md"] + "prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-", "templates/presentation-video/"], + "files": ["shared/policies/writing-mode.md", "shared/policies/proportionality.md", "skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md", "skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md", "skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md", "shared/media/speech-synthesis.md"] }, "reader_link_deny_prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], + "form_link_deny_prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], "precedence_reader_skills": ["explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "human-prose-drafting"], "excluded_reader_skills": ["explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", "empathic-troubleshooting", "human-prose-drafting", "documentation-authoring", "documentation-review", "terminology-guard", "tutorial-video-scripting"], - "precedence_story_skills": ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review"], + "precedence_story_skills": ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review", "story-video-scripting"], "vault": { "markers": ["00-project/brief.md", "00-project/voice.md"], "kinds": ["story", "study", "starter"], "drafting_kind": "story", "drafting_requires_voice_fields": ["viewpoint", "tense", "distance"], "forms": ["long-form", "short-form"], - "manuscript_paths": ["06-manuscript/chapters/", "06-manuscript/paratext/"], + "manuscript_paths": ["06-manuscript/chapters/", "06-manuscript/paratext/", "06-manuscript/editions/"], "short_form_manuscript_heading": "## Manuscript", "reader_files": ["README.md", "START.md", "AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md"] }, diff --git a/shared/story/story-development.md b/shared/story/story-development.md index ef3470d..b31db14 100644 --- a/shared/story/story-development.md +++ b/shared/story/story-development.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # Guided development from an idea to a finished story -Use this workflow for developing the author's own fiction. It orchestrates the eight story skills; it is not an additional software lifecycle or a requirement to complete an encyclopedia before writing. Read the [stage map](workflow.md) for category coverage and storage, and the [working rules](rules.md) for canon boundaries. Resume from the current artifacts, not from a fresh interview. +Use this workflow for developing the author's own fiction. It orchestrates the nine story skills; it is not an additional software lifecycle or a requirement to complete an encyclopedia before writing. Read the [stage map](workflow.md) for category coverage and storage, and the [working rules](rules.md) for canon boundaries. Resume from the current artifacts, not from a fresh interview. -This file is the only orchestration authority for the story family. The family is not part of the lifecycle handoff graph: no story skill hands off to, or is handed work by, a skill outside the family, and the passes below overlap and return instead of running as a linear lifecycle. The family is experimental; nothing here has been piloted on a finished story. +This file is the only orchestration authority for the story family. The family is not part of the lifecycle handoff graph: no story skill hands off to, or is handed work by, a skill outside the family, with the one exception stated under [narrated video](#narrated-video-after-acceptance), and the passes below overlap and return instead of running as a linear lifecycle. The family is experimental; nothing here has been piloted on a finished story. ## The conversation loop @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Drafting in pass G or H requires a vault of kind story and a voice sheet whose ` | G, H, I drafting and revision | `story-drafting` | | G, H, I checks | `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review` | | Method questions at any pass, and studies of existing works | `story-craft-research` | +| After acceptance, on request: the script of a narrated video | `story-video-scripting` | ## How we judge the work @@ -74,6 +75,17 @@ Feedback from the author or a beta reader about facts, chronology or knowledge g A chapter is complete when a canon review exists at a named revision and the author's acceptance of that revision is recorded. Acceptance is an author decision, not a command result, so no pass ends in a pass claim. `verification-before-completion` applies only to checks that have a command: link checks, template integrity, an export. A chapter keeps the voice sheet revision it was accepted under; a later sheet change does not reopen it by itself. +## Narrated video after acceptance + +A narrated video is an optional delivery of accepted text, never a pass of its own and never a condition for completion. It starts only when the author asks for it and the units in scope have a recorded acceptance at a named revision. + +1. `story-video-scripting` asks the author for the edition. Verbatim is the default: the accepted manuscript, segmented and otherwise untouched. A listening edition exists only by author decision, and every difference from the manuscript is recorded as one. +2. The written manuscript is not changed by either edition, and a listening edition is not canon. When reading aloud exposes a problem in the story itself, the work returns to pass H for a revision and a new acceptance. +3. The author accepts the script; that is a recorded decision, not a command result. +4. The accepted script goes to the form skill `presentation-video-production`, and its acceptance review is `presentation-video-review`. This is the only handoff out of the story family. The form skills voice, render and check the script as it is; a finding about wording returns to `story-video-scripting` and the author. + +Record the edition, the revisions and the acceptance in the decisions note. The step is experimental, and no video has been produced with it. Delivery as an e-book stays future work. + ## Durable handoff In each real story vault, maintain `00-project/development.md` for the current pass, available artifact, next action, pending question and dependency boundaries. Keep `00-project/decisions.md` for stable decision IDs, author/delegation evidence, status and consequences. Both are inert planning notes, not Loreweaver character or foreshadow entities. A story vault gets no backlog; these two notes hold its state. diff --git a/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md b/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md index 2f41079..9600171 100644 --- a/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md +++ b/shared/story/voice-and-tone.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ In scope: manuscript text of a vault of kind story, which is story prose, in-wor Out of scope: tone for documents. Documentation, session replies, vault instruction files and narrated explanatory videos are not manuscript; the [writing mode](../policies/writing-mode.md) policy names what governs them. Working notes in a vault are plain notes, and the voice sheet does not style them. +The narration of a story video is manuscript, not an explanatory video: it is the accepted manuscript or an accepted listening edition, and the sheet governs it. A listening edition follows the sheet revision its chapter was accepted under. Voicing and rendering do not restyle it. + ## Two records | Record | Where | What it decides | diff --git a/shared/story/workflow.md b/shared/story/workflow.md index 281190a..5858db7 100644 --- a/shared/story/workflow.md +++ b/shared/story/workflow.md @@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ The packet is written so that drafting can start from it alone. Where the host a After drafting, record a concise chapter summary and a proposed delta: new facts, changed locations, injuries, possessions, knowledge, relationship shifts, planted/paid promises and elapsed time. Resolve conflicts before accepting the delta. Draft revisions can invalidate both summaries and retrieval derivatives; see the [retrieval contract](retrieval.md). +## Narrated video after acceptance + +An accepted chapter, chapter range or short piece can optionally be delivered as a narrated video, an audiobook with pictures. This is a delivery step after stage 12, not a writing stage, and it is experimental. + +- **Verbatim by default.** The narration is the accepted manuscript at a named revision, only segmented into scenes and lines at sentence boundaries. No word is added, dropped or changed. +- **Listening edition by author decision.** A derived edition with changes for the ear is stored prose-only in `06-manuscript/editions/listening/.md`, from the [listening edition template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/listening-edition.md). Every difference from the manuscript is a recorded author decision. The edition is manuscript and follows the voice sheet; it is not canon and changes none. +- **The written manuscript is not changed.** Neither edition edits a prose file, a chapter card or a canon delta. A change the story itself needs goes through drafting, canon review and a new accepted revision first. + +The script is written by [story video scripting](../../skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md) into a video project outside `06-manuscript/`, at a path the author names. Voicing and rendering belong to the form skill `presentation-video-production`, which never restyles the text. Delivery as an e-book stays future work. + ## Expansion and retcons New history can fill an uncommitted gap. If it changes an accepted fact, enumerate the affected scenes, character knowledge and later payoffs, propose the smallest coherent revision, and record the decision. Published text needs an explicit author decision about errata, revised edition or an intentional in-world explanation. An unreliable narrator is an explanation only when supported by the work, not an automatic repair. diff --git a/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md b/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md index 83fda2a..8ac445e 100644 --- a/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: presentation-video-production -description: "Use when an accepted video script must become a rendered presentation video: verifying key-term pronunciation, voicing the narration with Azure AI Speech or the ElevenLabs connector, deriving the timeline from the measured sound, building scenes, taking check stills and rendering, or when one sentence of an existing video changed. Not for writing or changing the script's content (use tutorial-video-scripting), the acceptance review (use presentation-video-review), filmed material, screen recordings or short-form social video." +description: "Use when an accepted script of a tutorial or a story video must become a rendered presentation video: verifying key-term pronunciation, voicing the narration with Azure AI Speech or the ElevenLabs connector, deriving the timeline from the measured sound, building scenes, taking check stills and rendering, or when one sentence of an existing video changed. Not for writing or changing the script's content (use tutorial-video-scripting; a story script returns to the story family), the acceptance review (use presentation-video-review), filmed material, screen recordings or short-form social video." --- # Presentation Video Production @@ -26,12 +26,12 @@ sound is reused, so every step can be run again after an interruption. ## Trigger -An accepted script (script check passed, author agreed), or a correction to a -video that already exists. +An accepted script of a tutorial or a story video (script check passed, author +agreed), or a correction to a video that already exists. ## Do not use for -- Deciding what the video says; use `tutorial-video-scripting`. +- Deciding what the video says; use `tutorial-video-scripting`, or `story-video-scripting` for a story script. - The acceptance decision; use `presentation-video-review`. - A script that has not passed the script check. @@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ video that already exists. twice without the setting. Keep a setting only if it reports EFFECTIVE. 7. **Timeline.** `python3 tools/timeline.py`. It refuses sound that no longer matches the text. Then `python3 tools/measure.py pace`: a scene - outside the profile's range is adjusted through wording, an effective - provider setting, or the pause value, and measured again. + outside the profile's range is adjusted through wording (tutorial scripts + only), an effective provider setting, or the pause value, and measured + again. 8. **Read-back.** `python3 tools/verify_speech.py` over all lines. An unrecognized key term blocks delivery; lines below the similarity threshold are listened to. @@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ video that already exists. pause between lines. A render that exited cleanly is not evidence; this measurement is. 13. **Record.** Update the project `README.md`: chapters with time marks from - `out/chapters.txt`, sources, voice and provider, what makes the video + `out/chapters.txt`, sources (for a story video the edition and the + manuscript revisions instead), voice and provider, what makes the video stale. ### One sentence changed @@ -125,6 +127,25 @@ Edit the line in `src/narration.json`, then repeat steps 5, 7, 8, the stills of that scene, and steps 10 to 12. Per-line voicing sends one request; all later lines move by themselves. +## Story scripts + +`video.json` with `"purpose": "story"` marks a story video. Its narration is +accepted manuscript (`"edition": "verbatim"`) or an accepted listening edition +(`"edition": "listening"`) of the revisions named under `based_on`; see +[writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). + +- Voice and render the narration as it is. Never change its wording, tone or + order: not to meet the pace range, not to shorten a line, not to ease a + pronunciation. Pace is adjusted through an effective provider setting or + the pause value only. +- A wrong name or term is corrected in `pronunciation.json` or with a line's + `speak`, which changes the sound and never the caption text. +- A line that the script check rejects, or that needs other words to work + aloud, goes back to `story-video-scripting` and the author. The same holds + for "one sentence changed": the changed line arrives from there; this skill + voices it and repeats the steps above. +- Scene pictures follow the plain descriptions in `script/script.md`. + ## Playbook Producing and delivering a video crosses machines and paid services and must diff --git a/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md b/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md index ef01051..76def13 100644 --- a/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: presentation-video-review -description: "Use when a finished tutorial video script needs its acceptance review before money is spent on voicing, or a produced presentation video must be accepted before delivery: confirming sources and honesty of the script, every check still, a listening check for pronunciation, pace, pauses and tone, and the measured properties of the rendered file. Records findings with severity, scene and line. Not for writing or correcting the script (use tutorial-video-scripting), voicing, producing or re-rendering the video (use presentation-video-production), marketing clips or filmed material, or reviewing written documentation or code." +description: "Use when a finished script of a tutorial or a story video needs its acceptance review before money is spent on voicing, or a produced presentation video must be accepted before delivery: confirming sources and honesty of a tutorial script or the match of a story script with its named edition, every check still, a listening check for pronunciation, pace, pauses and tone, and the measured properties of the rendered file. Records findings with severity, scene and line. Not for writing or correcting the script (use tutorial-video-scripting; a story script returns to the story family), voicing, producing or re-rendering the video (use presentation-video-production), marketing clips or filmed material, or reviewing written documentation or code." --- # Presentation Video Review @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ about to be delivered (gate 2). ## Do not use for -- Writing or correcting narration; use `tutorial-video-scripting`. +- Writing or correcting narration; use `tutorial-video-scripting`, or `story-video-scripting` for a story script. - Voicing, stills or rendering; use `presentation-video-production`. - Written documentation (`documentation-review`) or code. @@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ about to be delivered (gate 2). - The video project: script files, `stills/`, `out/measure.json`, the rendered file, `video-profile.json`. -- The subject itself, to verify claims against it. +- The subject itself, to verify claims against it. For a story script + instead: the manuscript or listening edition at the revisions named in + `video.json`. ## Produces @@ -49,6 +51,9 @@ character, term changes, pace or loudness out of range). **Minor** – polish. ## Gate 1: before voicing +Step 1 applies to every script. Steps 2 to 5 judge a tutorial script; a story +script takes the checks under [Story scripts](#story-scripts) in their place. + 1. Run `python3 tools/check_script.py`; record errors and undecided warnings. 2. Sources: open each cited source and confirm the claims of its scenes. A claim that cannot be confirmed is a finding, not a rewording task. @@ -102,6 +107,33 @@ Gate 1 passes with no open Critical or Important finding. Gate 2 passes when `tools/check_review.py` and `tools/measure.py all` both exit without error and no Critical or Important finding is open. +## Story scripts + +`video.json` with `"purpose": "story"` marks a story video. Its narration is +accepted manuscript (`"edition": "verbatim"`) or an accepted listening edition +(`"edition": "listening"`); see +[writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). The review never judges +or changes its wording, tone or order. + +- **Gate 1** replaces the source, tone, honesty and term checks with one + comparison: every narration line matches the named edition at the revision + under `based_on`, in order and without gaps. Verbatim: word for word against + the manuscript; only the cut into scenes and lines may differ. Listening: + word for word against the edition file. A difference is a finding, Critical + when words were changed, added or dropped. Also confirm one audience and + form of address in `video.json`, that invented names and other key terms + are in the pronunciation list, and that no secret or private data of a real + person is in text or planned picture. The checks for recreated interfaces + apply only when `recreated` is set. +- **Gate 2** is unchanged except for the listening check: judge + pronunciation, pace, pauses and audible cuts, not style. A tone or a + sentence the reviewer would have written differently is not a finding. The + project record names the edition and the manuscript revisions in place of + sources. +- Wording findings return to `story-video-scripting` and the author: a + transcription error is fixed against the manuscript; any other change is an + author decision. They never go to `tutorial-video-scripting`. + ## Completion `review.md` records both gates. Return actionable findings to the owning @@ -111,10 +143,11 @@ measurement on the new file. ## Next phase `verification-before-completion` when gate 2 has passed; otherwise back to -`tutorial-video-scripting` (content) or `presentation-video-production` -(picture, sound, file). +`tutorial-video-scripting` (content of a tutorial script), +`story-video-scripting` (wording of a story script) or +`presentation-video-production` (picture, sound, file). ## Supporting skills -- `terminology-guard` for term consistency. +- `terminology-guard` for term consistency of a tutorial script. - `verification-before-completion` for the final ready claim. diff --git a/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md b/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ace98a --- /dev/null +++ b/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +--- +name: story-video-scripting +description: "Use when an accepted chapter, chapter range or short piece of a story vault must become the script of a narrated story video, an audiobook with pictures: the accepted manuscript segmented word for word into scenes and narration lines, or an author-approved listening edition, with the script files the production step reads. Not for a tutorial video about a story or its world, for drafting new story text, for changing canon, or for voicing or rendering. Not for a study vault or an unused starter vault. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +--- + +# Story video scripting + +Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap. + +For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session. + +No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. + +This skill is experimental. It turns accepted story text into the script of a narrated presentation video: scenes, narration lines and plain picture descriptions. The story family owns the text; the form skills voice, time, render and check the accepted script and never restyle it. Nothing is voiced or rendered here. + +## When to use + +The author wants an accepted chapter, a chapter range or a short piece told as a narrated video, or wants the wording of an existing story video script corrected. + +## Do not use for + +- Not for a tutorial or explanatory video about a story or its world: that is reader-oriented and belongs to `tutorial-video-scripting`. +- Not for drafting or revising story text: that is `story-drafting`, and a revised chapter needs a new accepted revision before it is scripted. +- Not for changing canon: neither edition adds, removes or alters a story fact. +- Not for voicing, building scenes or rendering: that is `presentation-video-production`. + +## Preconditions + +- The vault is of kind story. In a starter, stop and route to `story-bootstrap`. In a study vault, decline: nothing is scripted from a studied work. +- Every unit in scope is accepted, and its accepted revision is named: the `Accepted revision` column of `06-manuscript/index.md`, confirmed by the acceptance record of the chapter card or short piece. A unit without a recorded acceptance is not scripted; say which one is missing and stop. +- The voice sheet `00-project/voice.md` is read at the revision the unit was accepted under. It governs every narration line. + +## Choose the edition with the author + +Ask once, and record the answer in `00-project/decisions.md`. Verbatim is the default; choose it when the author states no preference. + +| Edition | Narration | Who decides the wording | +| --- | --- | --- | +| `verbatim` | The accepted manuscript, only segmented. No word is added, dropped or changed. | Nobody: the accepted revision is the wording | +| `listening` | A derived edition with additions or changes for the ear | The author, difference by difference | + +One video uses one edition. A second edition of the same chapter is a second video project. + +## Verbatim: segmenting the manuscript + +Read the prose at the accepted revision: the chapter file under `06-manuscript/chapters/`, or the text under `## Manuscript` of a short piece. + +1. **Scenes.** Open a new scene at each scene break of the manuscript and wherever the picture has to change. Keep the manuscript order. +2. **Lines.** Break at sentence boundaries. A line is one sentence, or two short neighbouring sentences. A paragraph break is always a line break. +3. **Long sentences.** A sentence above the line limit of the video profile (`script.max_line_words`) is split into consecutive lines at a clause boundary: a comma, semicolon, colon, dash or conjunction. The words and their order stay; the punctuation at the cut stays with the earlier line. When a sentence offers no clause boundary below the limit, raise the limit for this video under `overrides` in `video.json` as an author decision; do not reword. +4. **Text.** Each line's `text` is the manuscript wording with its punctuation, in the manuscript's spelling. Emphasis markup is not carried over. Read against the manuscript, the lines in order give the chapter again, word for word. +5. **Headings.** A chapter title becomes the `chapter` name of its scenes. Whether it is also spoken is the author's choice, recorded in `script/script.md`; when spoken, it is a line exactly as written. + +The template ships no command that compares narration with the manuscript. Compare the joined `text` of all lines with the prose at the accepted revision yourself, and report the result with the revision compared. Any difference is a transcription defect to fix, never an improvement to keep. + +## Listening edition + +A listening edition exists only when the author asks for one. Create it from the [listening edition template](../../templates/story-vault/90-templates/listening-edition.md) as `06-manuscript/editions/listening/.md`; a short piece uses its piece ID. + +| Frontmatter field | Content | +| --- | --- | +| `type` | `listening-edition` | +| `story_id` | The vault's story ID | +| `chapter_id` | The chapter or piece the edition derives from | +| `based_on_revision` | The accepted manuscript revision it derives from | +| `edition_revision` | The revision of this edition; it rises with every accepted change | +| `canon_status` | `proposed`. An edition is not canon and never becomes it. | +| `decision_ids` | The decisions in `00-project/decisions.md` that approved its differences | + +- The file is prose only and is manuscript: it follows the voice sheet, the [story rules](../../shared/story/rules.md) and nothing from documentation or didactic writing. +- Start from a copy of the accepted prose. Every difference from the manuscript is an author decision: propose it with the passage, the change and the reason for the ear, wait for the answer, and record the decision under an ID that the edition's `decision_ids` lists. An unanswered proposal is not approved. +- The written manuscript stays unchanged. No file under `06-manuscript/chapters/`, `06-manuscript/pieces/` or `06-manuscript/paratext/` is edited, and no chapter card, summary or canon delta changes. +- An edition changes how the story is told aloud, not what happens. A change that would alter a fact, an order of events or what a character knows is a canon change and goes through `story-drafting` and `story-canon-review` on the manuscript instead. +- The author accepts the edition at a named `edition_revision`; list it in the listening editions table of `06-manuscript/index.md`. The narration is then segmented from the accepted edition by the verbatim rules above, word for word against the edition. +- When the chapter receives a later accepted revision, the edition is stale until the author confirms or revises it against that revision. + +## The video project + +The script lives in a video project, a copy of the [project template](../../templates/presentation-video/README.md), outside `06-manuscript/` at a path the author names: for example a sibling directory of the vault, or `08-video//` inside it. Create it if absent. The tools need a video profile; when none exists, copy the [example](../../templates/presentation-video/video-profile.example.json) and ask only for language, provider, voice and the voice's languages. + +| File | Content for a story video | +| --- | --- | +| `video.json` | The fields below | +| `script/script.md` | For the author's review: listener, edition, the chapters with their revisions, the scene table with the picture description of each scene, and the names that must be spoken correctly. A listening edition also names its `edition_revision`. No source table. | +| `src/scenes.json` | Scene order; per scene its `key` (lowercase letters, digits, `_`), `chapter` and `message`. No `sources` and no `no_claims` field. | +| `src/narration.json` | Per scene the narration lines. `text` is the edition's wording. | +| `pronunciation.json` | Fixed spoken forms, in the existing format | + +`video.json` for a story video: + +```json +{ + "id": "", + "title": "", + "purpose": "story", + "edition": "verbatim", + "story_id": "<story_id>", + "based_on": [{"chapter_id": "<chapter-id>", "revision": "<accepted revision>"}], + "audience": "<the listener>", + "address": "none", + "goal": "<what the listener hears>", + "recreated": false, + "stale_when": "A unit in based_on receives a later accepted revision." +} +``` + +- `edition` is `verbatim` or `listening`. `based_on` lists every unit in narration order; `revision` is the accepted manuscript revision, and for a listening edition it equals the edition's `based_on_revision`. +- `audience` and `address` stay required. Take the listener from the reader promise in the brief; `address` is `none` unless the narration addresses the listener. +- `recreated` is `false`: a story video recreates no interface. + +## Scenes, messages and pictures + +- A **scene** is one picture with an ordered run of narration lines. It follows the manuscript's own scene breaks or a change of picture, not a teaching step. +- A scene's **message** is a one-line working note of what happens in the scene. It is never spoken and never shown. Write it as a plain note, not in the story's voice. +- A **chapter** in `src/scenes.json` is the chapter mark of the video: the manuscript chapter's title, or the piece's title. +- The **picture** of a scene is a plain description in the scene table of `script/script.md`: what is seen while the lines are spoken. Describe only what the accepted text supports. Where the images come from is not decided by this skill; leave the description as it stands for the author and production. + +Picture descriptions and messages are working notes. They invent no story fact; a detail the manuscript does not give is left open or marked as the author's choice. + +## Pronunciation + +Enter invented names and terms in `pronunciation.json` exactly as the existing list works: `term`, an optional `speak` respelling or `ipa`, an optional `lang`, and `"key": true` for the names the video depends on, starting with those in its title. Ask the author how a name is spoken; do not guess a spoken form into the list. Nothing beyond the existing list is designed for stories. Production verifies the key terms before it voices the rest, under the provider-neutral rules of [speech synthesis](../../shared/media/speech-synthesis.md). + +## Run the script check + +From the video project: + +```sh +python3 tools/check_script.py +``` + +For `"purpose": "story"` the check requires no sources, checks `edition` and `based_on`, and raises no sentence-length warning: literary sentences are the author's choice. The line limit, the speakable warnings, the caption and speech comparison, the secret patterns, scene and chapter fields, audience, address and the maximum length stay in force. + +- A **line-length error** is resolved by the clause split above, never by rewording. +- A **speakable warning** on a number or an abbreviation is decided line by line. A `speak` form may spell the same words the way they are read aloud; the caption `text` stays as the edition has it. +- A **length error** is resolved by a split at a chapter or scene break the author chooses. A verbatim part receives no added opening or closing words. + +Errors block voicing. `verification-before-completion` applies to this check and to nothing the author decides. + +## Acceptance and handoff + +The script is ready for the author when the script check exits without errors, every warning is decided, and the comparison with the edition shows no difference. Acceptance is the author's decision, not a command result: record it in `00-project/decisions.md` with the video ID, the edition and the revisions, and note the state in `00-project/development.md`. Voicing costs money, so nothing goes to production before that record exists. + +Then hand the video project to `presentation-video-production`, see [production](../presentation-video-production/SKILL.md). It voices and renders the script as it is. The acceptance review of script and video is `presentation-video-review`, see [review](../presentation-video-review/SKILL.md); for a story script it checks every narration line against the named edition at its revision. + +## Where review findings return + +| Finding | Goes to | +| --- | --- | +| A narration line differs from the verbatim manuscript | This skill: fix the transcription against the accepted revision | +| The wording of a listening edition should change | The author: a recorded decision and a new `edition_revision`, then this skill | +| The accepted manuscript itself reads wrongly aloud | The author: a listening edition, or a manuscript revision through `story-drafting` with a new accepted revision. Never a silent change in the script. | +| Pronunciation, pace, pauses, picture or the rendered file | Production, in the video project | + +No wording finding on a story script goes to the tutorial scripting skill, and no form skill rewrites a line. + +## Outcome and limits + +Finish with the edition, the units and revisions scripted, the result of the script check and of the comparison, the open author decisions and the path of the video project. Guided development places this step after acceptance; see [guided development](../../shared/story/story-development.md) and the [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md). + +Status: experimental. No video has been produced with this skill. How invented names are best pronounced and where pictures come from are not designed; delivery as an e-book is future work. diff --git a/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md b/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md index ddda462..b46aa62 100644 --- a/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/tutorial-video-scripting/SKILL.md @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ audience, or for a change to the content of an existing one. `presentation-video-review`. - Marketing or social clips, filmed material, screen recordings. - A written guide on the same subject; use `documentation-authoring`. -- Story manuscripts or in-world text; the story family owns them, under +- Story manuscripts, in-world text or the narration of a story video (a + story read aloud over pictures); the story family owns them, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md). ## Consumes diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/README.md b/templates/presentation-video/README.md index eb6a548..c853510 100644 --- a/templates/presentation-video/README.md +++ b/templates/presentation-video/README.md @@ -58,6 +58,32 @@ picture that needs longer than the sentence. `show: false` speaks the line without a caption. `notice: true` marks the line that tells the viewer that interfaces are recreated. +### Story videos + +A video that narrates a story (an accepted chapter, range or short piece read +aloud over pictures) is marked in `video.json`: + +```json +{"purpose": "story", "edition": "verbatim", "story_id": "<story id>", + "based_on": [{"chapter_id": "<chapter id>", "revision": "<manuscript revision>"}]} +``` + +- `purpose` is `tutorial` when absent. With `story`, the narration is the + author's accepted text and no tool or step may reword it. +- `edition` is `verbatim` (the accepted manuscript, only cut into scenes and + lines at sentence boundaries) or `listening` (a derived text with changes for + the ear that the author approved; the written manuscript stays unchanged). +- `based_on` names every chapter or piece narrated and the manuscript revision + it was taken from. A changed manuscript makes the script stale. + +The script check then requires `edition` and `based_on`, asks for no source +table and no `sources` per scene, and raises no sentence-length warning; every +other check stays. A scene's `message` is a working note of what happens in +the scene and is not spoken; the picture is a plain description in +`script/script.md`, where the sections Sources and Evidenced, approximated, +invented may be left out unless interfaces are recreated. `audience` and +`address` stay required (the listener; `address` may be `none`). + ## From script to file Run every command from this folder. @@ -172,6 +198,8 @@ Set `"provider": "elevenlabs"` and `"mode": "scene"` in the profile. | `key term not recognized` | The voice mispronounces a key term | Correct it in `pronunciation.json`, voice and verify again | | `line N was not heard in the take` | The take dropped or changed a sentence | Request a new take; the scene's existing sound is untouched | | `id may contain only lowercase letters, digits and hyphens` | `video.json` id is used in file names and commands | Rename the id | +| `a story video must name its edition` | `video.json` has `"purpose": "story"` without `edition` | Set `verbatim` or `listening` | +| `a story video must list the manuscript it narrates` | `based_on` is missing, empty or lacks `chapter_id` or `revision` | Name each narrated chapter with its manuscript revision | | An empty box or missing symbol in a still | The fonts cover Latin and Latin Extended only | Draw the mark as a shape or add a font that has it | ## Fonts diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/tools/check_script.py b/templates/presentation-video/tools/check_script.py index d091c8b..2cb3268 100755 --- a/templates/presentation-video/tools/check_script.py +++ b/templates/presentation-video/tools/check_script.py @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ reports every violation with scene and line. Errors block voicing (exit 1); warnings do not. +`"purpose": "story"` in video.json marks narrated fiction: the narration is an +accepted manuscript edition, so no source is required and sentence length is +the author's choice; the edition and the manuscript revisions must be named. + Usage: python3 tools/check_script.py [--json] """ import difflib @@ -27,6 +31,8 @@ # digits a voice may read in an unintended way: times, versions, long numbers, units NUMBER = re.compile(r"\b\d+[:./]\d+\b|\b\d{3,}\b|\b\d+\s?(%|[kMG]B|ms|min|s|h|px|€|\$)(?!\w)") SCENE_KEY = re.compile(r"[a-z0-9_]+") +PURPOSES = ("tutorial", "story") +EDITIONS = ("verbatim", "listening") def finding(severity, rule, message, scene=None, line=None): @@ -70,6 +76,18 @@ def check(video: dict, scenes: list[dict], narration: dict, script_text: str, prof: dict, entries: list[dict]) -> list[dict]: out = [] limits = prof["script"] + purpose = video.get("purpose", "tutorial") + if purpose not in PURPOSES: + out.append(finding("error", "purpose", f"video.json purpose must be one of {', '.join(PURPOSES)}")) + story = purpose == "story" + if story: + # the narration is a manuscript edition: name which one and what it was taken from + if video.get("edition") not in EDITIONS: + out.append(finding("error", "edition", f"a story video must name its edition: {' or '.join(EDITIONS)}")) + based_on = video.get("based_on") + if not (isinstance(based_on, list) and based_on and all( + isinstance(b, dict) and b.get("chapter_id") and b.get("revision") for b in based_on)): + out.append(finding("error", "based-on", "a story video must list the manuscript it narrates: based_on entries with chapter_id and revision")) # FR-001: one audience, one form of address if not isinstance(video.get("audience"), str): @@ -96,9 +114,9 @@ def check(video: dict, scenes: list[dict], narration: dict, script_text: str, out.append(finding("error", "chapter", "scene belongs to no chapter", key)) if key not in narration or not narration[key]: out.append(finding("error", "scenes", "scene has no narration", key)) - # FR-004: every claim traceable or marked + # FR-004: every claim traceable or marked; a story scene makes no claim cited = scene.get("sources") or [] - if not (cited or scene.get("unverified") or scene.get("no_claims")): + if not (story or cited or scene.get("unverified") or scene.get("no_claims")): out.append(finding("error", "sources", "scene cites no source and is not marked unverified or no_claims", key)) for sid in cited: if sid not in known_sources: @@ -121,7 +139,7 @@ def check(video: dict, scenes: list[dict], narration: dict, script_text: str, out.append(finding("error", "line-length", f"{count} words, limit {limits['max_line_words']}", key, i)) for sentence in re.split(r"(?<=[.!?])\s+", text): n = project.words(sentence) - if n > limits["max_sentence_words"]: + if n > limits["max_sentence_words"] and not story: out.append(finding("warning", "sentence-length", f"sentence of {n} words, hard to follow by ear (limit {limits['max_sentence_words']})", key, i)) if "speak" not in line: for abbr in sorted(set(ABBREVIATION.findall(text)) - listed): @@ -147,7 +165,7 @@ def check(video: dict, scenes: list[dict], narration: dict, script_text: str, evidence = section(script_text, "Evidenced, approximated, invented") if not evidence or "<" in evidence: out.append(finding("error", "evidence-list", "script/script.md must list what is evidenced, approximated and invented")) - if not known_sources: + if not known_sources and not story: out.append(finding("error", "sources", "script/script.md lists no source (table rows S1, S2, ...)")) # FR-036: no length recommendation, one maximum diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/tools/profile.py b/templates/presentation-video/tools/profile.py index 9347719..230a90d 100755 --- a/templates/presentation-video/tools/profile.py +++ b/templates/presentation-video/tools/profile.py @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ PACE_FALLBACK = [110, 180] REQUIRED = ["language", "speech.provider", "speech.voice", "speech.voice_languages"] VIDEO_REQUIRED = ["id", "title", "audience", "address", "goal", "recreated"] -VIDEO_KEYS = set(VIDEO_REQUIRED) | {"overrides", "pronunciation", "stale_when"} +VIDEO_KEYS = set(VIDEO_REQUIRED) | {"overrides", "pronunciation", "stale_when", + "purpose", "edition", "story_id", "based_on"} class ProfileError(ValueError): diff --git a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/editions/.gitkeep b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/editions/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md index 958e2da..3e53ff8 100644 --- a/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md +++ b/templates/story-vault/06-manuscript/index.md @@ -22,3 +22,10 @@ Each piece is one note in `06-manuscript/pieces/`; its prose stands under the he | Piece ID | Note | POV | Accepted revision | | --- | --- | --- | --- | + +## Listening editions + +Optional. A listening edition is a version of an accepted chapter or piece for a narrated video, in `06-manuscript/editions/listening/`. It is not canon and leaves the written manuscript unchanged. A video read word for word from the manuscript needs no entry here. + +| Chapter or piece ID | Edition file | Based on revision | Accepted edition revision | Decision IDs | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/templates/story-vault/90-templates/listening-edition.md b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/listening-edition.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db355f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/templates/story-vault/90-templates/listening-edition.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +id: template-listening-edition +story_id: unset +type: template +template_type: listening-edition +chapter_id: unset +based_on_revision: unset +edition_revision: unset +canon_status: template +decision_ids: unset +--- + +# Chapter title diff --git a/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md b/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md index cea585b..a67af1d 100644 --- a/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md +++ b/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md @@ -33,12 +33,14 @@ Drafting also needs `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` set in the frontmatter o Afterword, author note and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/` in both forms. In-world documents, such as a letter, a report or a manual that exists inside the story, are manuscript. `06-manuscript/index.md` gives the order; do not rely on file names. +A listening edition under `06-manuscript/editions/listening/<chapter-id>.md` is manuscript too: prose only, derived from an accepted chapter for a narrated video, with every difference approved by the author. It is not canon, and it never changes the chapter it derives from. The files of a video project are kept outside `06-manuscript/`. + `publication_profile` in the brief is `unset`, `web-serial`, `light-novel` or `both`. It may stay unset. The only default the method supplies is about 100 chapters per sub-arc under `web-serial` (see `90-templates/arc.md`); otherwise do not assume lengths, chapter counts or illustration counts for a profile, and use only figures the author has recorded. ## Before you write 1. Read `START.md`, then `00-project/development.md` and `00-project/decisions.md`. Resume from what exists; do not restart the interview. -2. Pick the plugin skill that matches the requested work: `story-bootstrap`, `story-worldbuilding`, `story-characters`, `story-architecture`, `story-drafting`, `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review` or `story-craft-research`. If the plugin is not installed, say so; this file does not replace it. +2. Pick the plugin skill that matches the requested work: `story-bootstrap`, `story-worldbuilding`, `story-characters`, `story-architecture`, `story-drafting`, `story-canon-review`, `story-voice-review`, `story-craft-research` or `story-video-scripting`. If the plugin is not installed, say so; this file does not replace it. 3. Resolve story paths from this vault's root. ## Canon and decisions diff --git a/templates/story-vault/START.md b/templates/story-vault/START.md index 03553b4..6f6a805 100644 --- a/templates/story-vault/START.md +++ b/templates/story-vault/START.md @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ The brief's `form` decides the layout. Afterword, author note and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/` in both forms. +A listening edition is an optional version of an accepted chapter for a narrated video, with changes for the ear that you approved one by one. It lives in `06-manuscript/editions/listening/`, from [[90-templates/listening-edition]], and is listed in [[06-manuscript/index|the manuscript index]]. It never changes the written chapter and is not canon. A video read word for word from the manuscript needs no edition file. + Arcs use [[90-templates/arc]] and live in `05-plot/`. A volume is a packaging unit beside the arc: use [[90-templates/volume]], also in `05-plot/`, when the publication profile calls for volumes. Its numeric fields are unset; you fill them. Reviews use [[90-templates/review]] and live in `07-continuity/`. Craft notes on a source use [[90-templates/source-card]] as their format. They are not story canon and are not kept in this vault: keep them in the research workspace the author names, and cite a card here by its source ID. World and cast notes use [[90-templates/world-entry]], [[90-templates/event]], [[90-templates/people]], [[90-templates/character]], [[90-templates/relationship]], [[90-templates/location]], [[90-templates/organization]], [[90-templates/term]] and [[90-templates/foreshadow]]. @@ -51,6 +53,7 @@ World and cast notes use [[90-templates/world-entry]], [[90-templates/event]], [ | Canon, chronology and knowledge check | `story-canon-review` | | Check prose against the voice sheet | `story-voice-review` | | Craft sources and studies of existing works | `story-craft-research` | +| Script of a narrated video from an accepted chapter | `story-video-scripting` | ## Instantiating a template diff --git a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json index 85bf331..9aab552 100644 --- a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json +++ b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json @@ -405,6 +405,66 @@ "next": "author decision" } }, + { + "id": "story-video-script", + "request": "Turn an accepted chapter of a story vault into the script of a narrated video that reads the manuscript verbatim.", + "primary": "story-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog", + "presentation-video-production" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "kind: story vault with an accepted chapter at a named revision", + "voice sheet" + ], + "produces": [ + "script files of a video project with purpose story and edition verbatim; the manuscript unchanged" + ], + "next": "presentation-video-production" + } + }, + { + "id": "story-video-production", + "request": "The script of a story video, an accepted chapter read verbatim, is accepted. Voice it, build the timeline, take check stills and render the video.", + "primary": "presentation-video-production", + "supporting": [ + "verification-before-completion" + ], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "story-drafting", + "story-voice-review", + "documentation-authoring", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "accepted script with purpose story and edition verbatim", + "video profile" + ], + "produces": [ + "rendered file with passed measurement, check stills and captions; narration wording unchanged" + ], + "next": "presentation-video-review" + } + }, { "id": "story-vault-readme", "request": "Write the README of a story vault repository for a co-author.", @@ -423,7 +483,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "handoff": { "consumes": [ @@ -454,7 +515,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "handoff": { "consumes": [ @@ -486,7 +548,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "handoff": { "consumes": [ @@ -573,7 +636,8 @@ "story-drafting", "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", - "story-voice-review" + "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting" ], "handoff": { "consumes": [ diff --git a/tests/test_presentation_video.py b/tests/test_presentation_video.py index a0c9e76..b5cb02e 100644 --- a/tests/test_presentation_video.py +++ b/tests/test_presentation_video.py @@ -236,6 +236,93 @@ def test_narration_without_scene_entry_is_reported(self): def orphan(s): s["narration"]["extra"] = [{"text": "Hello."}] self.assertIn("scenes", rules(self.run_check(orphan))) + @staticmethod + def as_story(s): + s["video"].update(purpose="story", edition="verbatim", story_id="sample-story", + based_on=[{"chapter_id": "ch-01", "revision": "r3"}]) + for scene in s["scenes"]: + scene.pop("sources", None); scene.pop("no_claims", None) + s["script"] = s["script"].replace("| S1 |", "| x |") + + def test_story_script_passes_without_sources(self): + self.assertEqual([], self.run_check(self.as_story)) + def listening(s): + self.as_story(s); s["video"]["edition"] = "listening" + self.assertEqual([], self.run_check(listening)) + + def test_story_script_must_name_edition_and_manuscript_revision(self): + def no_edition(s): + self.as_story(s); s["video"].pop("edition") + self.assertEqual({"edition"}, rules(self.run_check(no_edition))) + def other_edition(s): + self.as_story(s); s["video"]["edition"] = "abridged" + self.assertEqual({"edition"}, rules(self.run_check(other_edition))) + for bad in (None, [], "ch-01", [{"chapter_id": "ch-01"}], [{"chapter_id": "ch-01", "revision": "r3"}, {"revision": "r3"}]): + def based(s, bad=bad): + self.as_story(s); s["video"]["based_on"] = bad + with self.subTest(based_on=bad): + self.assertEqual({"based-on"}, rules(self.run_check(based))) + + def test_story_sentence_length_is_the_authors_choice_but_lines_stay_limited(self): + def long_sentence(s): + self.as_story(s); s["narration"]["steps"][0]["text"] = " ".join(["word"] * 27) + "." + self.assertEqual([], self.run_check(long_sentence)) + def long_line(s): + self.as_story(s); s["narration"]["steps"][0]["text"] = " ".join(["word"] * 29) + "." + findings = self.run_check(long_line) + self.assertEqual({"line-length"}, rules(findings)) + self.assertEqual(set(), rules(findings, "warning")) + + def test_story_script_keeps_the_other_checks(self): + def broken(s): + self.as_story(s) + s["video"].update(audience=["listeners", "pupils"], recreated=True) + s["scenes"][1].pop("message") + s["narration"]["intro"][1]["text"] = "Use password: hunter2secret to sign in." + s["narration"]["close"][0].update(text="Ask the IT team.", speak="Please subscribe to our channel today.") + s["narration"]["steps"][1]["text"] = "Ask the IT team." + s["prof"]["script"]["max_minutes"] = 0.2 + findings = self.run_check(broken) + self.assertEqual({"audience", "message", "secret", "caption-speech", "notice", "length"}, rules(findings)) + self.assertEqual({"speakable"}, rules(findings, "warning")) + + def test_tutorial_behaviour_is_unchanged_by_the_purpose_field(self): + def defects(s): + s["scenes"][1].pop("sources"); s["scenes"][2]["sources"] = ["S9"] + s["narration"]["steps"][0]["text"] = " ".join(["word"] * 27) + "." + s["script"] = s["script"].replace("| S1 |", "| x |") + def named(s): + defects(s); s["video"]["purpose"] = "tutorial" + plain = self.run_check(defects) + self.assertEqual({"sources"}, rules(plain)) + self.assertEqual({"sentence-length"}, rules(plain, "warning")) + self.assertEqual(3, sum(f["rule"] == "sources" for f in plain)) + self.assertEqual(plain, self.run_check(named)) + # the story fields alone change nothing: only the purpose switches the rules + def fields_only(s): + defects(s); s["video"].update(edition="verbatim", based_on=[{"chapter_id": "ch-01", "revision": "r3"}]) + self.assertEqual(plain, self.run_check(fields_only)) + + def test_unknown_purpose_is_an_error(self): + def marketing(s): s["video"]["purpose"] = "marketing" + findings = self.run_check(marketing) + self.assertEqual({"purpose"}, rules(findings)) + def story_like(s): + self.as_story(s); s["video"]["purpose"] = "Story" + self.assertLessEqual({"purpose", "sources"}, rules(self.run_check(story_like))) + + def test_video_file_accepts_the_story_fields_and_still_rejects_unknown_keys(self): + folder = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp()) + self.addCleanup(shutil.rmtree, folder) + video = json.loads((TEMPLATE / "video.json").read_text()) + story = {**video, "purpose": "story", "edition": "listening", "story_id": "sample-story", + "based_on": [{"chapter_id": "ch-01", "revision": "r3"}]} + (folder / "video.json").write_text(json.dumps(story)) + self.assertEqual(story, profile_mod.load_video(folder)) + (folder / "video.json").write_text(json.dumps({**story, "editon": "verbatim"})) + with self.assertRaisesRegex(profile_mod.ProfileError, "unknown key in video.json: editon"): + profile_mod.load_video(folder) + class Credentials(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): diff --git a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py index 81b5289..55336b4 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py @@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ import unittest from scripts.validate_plugin import validate_repository ROOT=Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] -READER={'documentation-planning','documentation-authoring','documentation-review','documentation-pdf','human-prose-drafting','explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','terminology-guard','visual-placeholders','tutorial-video-scripting','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review'} +READER={'documentation-planning','documentation-authoring','documentation-review','documentation-pdf','human-prose-drafting','explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','terminology-guard','visual-placeholders','tutorial-video-scripting'} +# Form skills voice and render an accepted script of either family (WM-004). +FORM={'presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review'} # The story family (WM-003, experimental). tests/test_writing_mode.py checks its separation from the reader family. -STORY={'story-bootstrap','story-worldbuilding','story-characters','story-architecture','story-drafting','story-canon-review','story-craft-research','story-voice-review'} -WRITING=READER|STORY +STORY={'story-bootstrap','story-worldbuilding','story-characters','story-architecture','story-drafting','story-canon-review','story-craft-research','story-voice-review','story-video-scripting'} +WRITING=READER|STORY|FORM SHARED={'project-backlog','verification-before-completion','dispatching-parallel-agents','using-git-worktrees','requesting-code-review','receiving-code-review','playbook-authoring','playbook-review'} class WritingContracts(unittest.TestCase): @@ -42,21 +44,34 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self self.assertEqual({'standalone-document','documentation-set','existing-documentation-plan','documentation-pdf','tutorial-video-script','presentation-video-production','presentation-video-review','video-one-line-correction', # Story-positive cases: a story skill is primary and the reader prose skills are prohibited. 'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback', + # Narrated story video (WM-004): the story family scripts it, a form skill voices and renders the accepted script. + 'story-video-script','story-video-production', # Study vault: story-craft-research is primary and the request is declined; story-drafting may be opened for its mode check. 'study-vault-draft-request', # Negative cases: every story skill is prohibited. 'story-vault-readme','docs-release-note','story-world-tutorial-video','story-method-documentation','vault-parent-session'},{c['id'] for c in matrix}) self.assertEqual(len(matrix),len({c['id'] for c in matrix})) story_primary={c['id'] for c in matrix if c['primary'] in STORY} - self.assertEqual({'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback','study-vault-draft-request'},story_primary) + self.assertEqual({'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback','study-vault-draft-request','story-video-script'},story_primary) reader_prose={'explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','human-prose-drafting','documentation-authoring','documentation-planning','documentation-review','tutorial-video-scripting'} new_cases=[c for c in matrix if c['id'].startswith(('story-','study-','vault-','docs-release'))] - self.assertEqual(12,len(new_cases)) + self.assertEqual(14,len(new_cases)) for case in new_cases: if case['primary'] in STORY: # Story work never loads the reader prose skills, review-feedback handling or a backlog. self.assertTrue(reader_prose|{'requesting-code-review','receiving-code-review','project-backlog'} <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) self.assertFalse(set(case['supporting'])-STORY-{'verification-before-completion'},case['id']) + if case['id']=='story-video-script': + # Nothing is voiced before the author accepts the script, and a story script is not a tutorial script. + self.assertEqual('story-video-scripting',case['primary']) + self.assertTrue({'tutorial-video-scripting','presentation-video-production'} <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) + self.assertEqual('presentation-video-production',case['handoff']['next']) + elif case['id']=='story-video-production': + # A form skill is primary: it voices the accepted story script as it is. Nothing that writes, restyles or judges the text may load. + self.assertIn(case['primary'],FORM) + self.assertEqual('presentation-video-production',case['primary']) + self.assertEqual({'native-focused-edit','tutorial-video-scripting','story-drafting','story-voice-review','documentation-authoring','explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','human-prose-drafting'},set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) + self.assertFalse(set(case['supporting'])-{'verification-before-completion'},case['id']) elif case['id']=='story-method-documentation': # Documenting the method may read story skills as source material; the two that govern or judge manuscript text stay prohibited. self.assertEqual({'native-focused-edit','story-drafting','story-voice-review'},set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) @@ -78,6 +93,11 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self self.assertEqual(set(case['prohibited'])-{'native-focused-edit'},set(routed['prohibited']),case['id']) self.assertTrue(set(routed['supporting']) <= set(case['supporting']),case['id']) self.assertEqual(['decision.md'],routed['artifacts']) + # Only the story-video-script case forbids production among the story cases; the tutorial video about a story's world never opens the story scripting skill. + by_id={c['id']:c for c in matrix} + self.assertEqual(['story-video-script'],[c['id'] for c in new_cases if c['primary'] in STORY and 'presentation-video-production' in c['prohibited']]) + self.assertEqual('tutorial-video-scripting',by_id['story-world-tutorial-video']['primary']) + self.assertIn('story-video-scripting',by_id['story-world-tutorial-video']['prohibited']) for case in matrix: self.assertIn(case['primary'],WRITING) self.assertTrue(set(case['supporting']) <= WRITING|SHARED) diff --git a/tests/test_writing_mode.py b/tests/test_writing_mode.py index 52fc365..4404aa5 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_mode.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_mode.py @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ -"""Separation of the story family from the reader family. +"""Separation of the story family from the reader family, and the form family between them. The single JSON block in ``shared/policies/writing-mode.md`` is the authority these tests read. They prove that names, sentences, links and the vault starter -are as the policy states. They do not prove that a model follows the sentences: +are as the policy states. The form skills voice and render an accepted script +for either family and link into neither story directory. They do not prove that a model follows the sentences: routing is statistical and is measured by the host evaluations. """ from __future__ import annotations @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ "story-canon-review", "story-craft-research", "story-voice-review", + "story-video-scripting", ] READER_SKILLS = [ "documentation-planning", @@ -45,9 +47,14 @@ "terminology-guard", "visual-placeholders", "tutorial-video-scripting", +] +# Form skills voice, time, render and check an accepted script. They serve both +# families and belong to neither. +FORM_SKILLS = [ "presentation-video-production", "presentation-video-review", ] +STORY_SIDE_PREFIXES = ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"] PRECEDENCE_READER_SKILLS = [ "explaining-concepts", "writing-procedures", @@ -60,7 +67,7 @@ "terminology-guard", "tutorial-video-scripting", ] -PRECEDENCE_STORY_SKILLS = ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review"] +PRECEDENCE_STORY_SKILLS = ["story-drafting", "story-voice-review", "story-video-scripting"] NO_RUN_STATE = ( "No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. " @@ -258,6 +265,12 @@ def reader_files(policy: dict) -> list[Path]: "shared/writing", "shared/media", "templates/documentation", "templates/presentation-video") +def form_files(policy: dict) -> list[Path]: + """Every Markdown file of the form skills.""" + return [p for name in policy["families"]["form"] + for p in sorted((ROOT / "skills" / name).rglob("*.md"))] + + def link_destination(written: str) -> str: """The destination of a link as written: angle brackets and a title removed.""" written = written.strip() @@ -337,15 +350,20 @@ def test_policy_block_states_the_contract(self): self.assertEqual(1, policy["schema_version"]) self.assertEqual("experimental", policy["status"]) self.assertEqual(HUB, policy["hub"]) - self.assertEqual(STORY_SKILLS, policy["families"]["story"]) - self.assertEqual(READER_SKILLS, policy["families"]["reader"]) + self.assertEqual({"story": STORY_SKILLS, "reader": READER_SKILLS, "form": FORM_SKILLS}, + policy["families"]) + self.assertEqual((9, 11, 2), (len(STORY_SKILLS), len(READER_SKILLS), len(FORM_SKILLS))) + # A story video is scripted from the video project template and handed to the form skills. self.assertEqual( - {"prefixes": ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], + {"prefixes": STORY_SIDE_PREFIXES + ["templates/presentation-video/"], "files": [HUB, "shared/policies/proportionality.md", - "skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md"]}, + "skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md", + "skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md", + "skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md", + "shared/media/speech-synthesis.md"]}, policy["story_link_allow"]) - self.assertEqual(["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"], - policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"]) + self.assertEqual(STORY_SIDE_PREFIXES, policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"]) + self.assertEqual(STORY_SIDE_PREFIXES, policy["form_link_deny_prefixes"]) self.assertEqual(PRECEDENCE_READER_SKILLS, policy["precedence_reader_skills"]) self.assertEqual(EXCLUDED_READER_SKILLS, policy["excluded_reader_skills"]) self.assertEqual(PRECEDENCE_STORY_SKILLS, policy["precedence_story_skills"]) @@ -358,18 +376,25 @@ def test_policy_block_states_the_vault_rule(self): "drafting_kind": "story", "drafting_requires_voice_fields": ["viewpoint", "tense", "distance"], "forms": ["long-form", "short-form"], - "manuscript_paths": ["06-manuscript/chapters/", "06-manuscript/paratext/"], + "manuscript_paths": ["06-manuscript/chapters/", "06-manuscript/paratext/", + "06-manuscript/editions/"], "short_form_manuscript_heading": "## Manuscript", "reader_files": ["README.md", "START.md", "AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md"]}, self.policy["vault"]) def test_families_partition_exactly_the_method_skills(self): - story, reader = self.policy["families"]["story"], self.policy["families"]["reader"] + families = self.policy["families"] + self.assertEqual(["story", "reader", "form"], list(families)) + story, reader, form = families["story"], families["reader"], families["form"] + everything = story + reader + form owned = json.loads(read("method.json"))["method_skills"] - self.assertEqual(len(story + reader), len(set(story + reader)), "a skill is listed twice") + self.assertEqual(len(everything), len(set(everything)), "a skill is listed twice") self.assertEqual(set(), set(story) & set(reader)) - self.assertEqual(sorted(owned), sorted(story + reader)) - for name in story + reader: + self.assertEqual(set(), set(form) & set(story + reader)) + self.assertEqual(len(owned), len(set(owned)), "method.json lists a skill twice") + self.assertEqual(sorted(owned), sorted(everything)) + self.assertEqual((9, 11, 2), (len(story), len(reader), len(form))) + for name in everything: self.assertTrue((ROOT / "skills" / name / "SKILL.md").is_file(), name) self.assertEqual(name, frontmatter(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")["name"]) @@ -378,7 +403,7 @@ def test_story_names_are_prefixed_and_collide_with_nothing(self): shared = {item["path"].split("/")[1] for item in lock["files"] if re.fullmatch(r"skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md", item["path"])} self.assertTrue(shared, "the core lock names no shared skill") - reader = set(self.policy["families"]["reader"]) + reader = set(self.policy["families"]["reader"]) | set(self.policy["families"]["form"]) for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: self.assertTrue(name.startswith("story-"), name) self.assertNotIn("continuity", name) @@ -387,6 +412,9 @@ def test_story_names_are_prefixed_and_collide_with_nothing(self): self.assertNotIn(name, reader) on_disk = {p.parent.name for p in (ROOT / "skills").glob("story-*/SKILL.md")} self.assertEqual(set(self.policy["families"]["story"]), on_disk) + # A form skill is not a story skill: its name carries no story prefix. + for name in self.policy["families"]["form"]: + self.assertFalse(name.startswith("story-"), name) def test_hub_contains_no_markdown_link(self): # The stored sentences S1 and S5 carry link syntax, so the block is set aside. @@ -421,6 +449,26 @@ def test_every_story_skill_rules_out_run_state(self): for name in STORY_SKILLS: self.assertIn(NO_RUN_STATE, paragraphs_after_h1(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")[:3], name) + def test_story_video_scripting_opens_like_a_manuscript_skill(self): + # Narration of a story video is manuscript: mode check, precedence, no run state, in this order. + self.assertIn("story-video-scripting", self.policy["precedence_story_skills"]) + paragraphs = paragraphs_after_h1("skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md") + self.assertEqual( + [self.sentences["story_opening"], self.sentences["precedence"], NO_RUN_STATE], + paragraphs[:3]) + description = skill_description("story-video-scripting") + self.assertTrue(description.startswith("Use when "), description) + + def test_form_descriptions_carry_no_family_exclusion(self): + # A form skill serves both families, so neither family's exclusion sentence may end it. + for name in self.policy["families"]["form"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + description = skill_description(name) + self.assertTrue(description.startswith("Use when "), description) + self.assertIn("story video", description) + self.assertNotIn(self.sentences["story_description_suffix"], description) + self.assertNotIn(self.sentences["reader_description_clause"], description) + def test_every_story_description_ends_with_the_exclusion(self): for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: with self.subTest(skill=name): @@ -489,6 +537,27 @@ def test_reader_files_never_link_into_the_story_family(self): problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} -> {target}") self.assertEqual([], problems) + def test_form_skills_never_link_into_the_story_family(self): + # Form skills may be linked by both families and link into neither story directory. + deny = self.policy["form_link_deny_prefixes"] + files = form_files(self.policy) + self.assertEqual({f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md" for name in FORM_SKILLS}, + {rel(p) for p in files if p.name == "SKILL.md"}) + problems = [] + for path in files: + for written, target in relative_link_targets(path): + if target is None: + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} leaves the repository") + elif under(target, deny): + problems.append(f"{rel(path)}: {written} -> {target}") + self.assertEqual([], problems) + + def test_form_skills_state_the_story_script_rule(self): + # A form skill may name skills of both families in backticks; it never restyles a story script. + for name in self.policy["families"]["form"]: + with self.subTest(skill=name): + self.assertIn("\n## Story scripts\n", read(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")) + def test_policy_files_refer_to_the_story_side_only_through_the_hub(self): story_side = self.policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"] for relative in HUB_LINKING_POLICIES: @@ -539,8 +608,10 @@ def test_firewall_helpers_catch_every_link_form(self): self.assertEqual("../a.md", link_destination('../a.md "title"')) def test_story_files_name_no_reader_skill_outside_the_contract_sentences(self): + # Form skills are not reader skills: a story file may name them. sentences = list(self.policy["sentences"].values()) reader = self.policy["families"]["reader"] + self.assertEqual(set(), set(reader) & set(FORM_SKILLS)) problems = {} for path in story_files(): found = backticked(reader, without_exempt_text(read(path), sentences)) @@ -614,6 +685,17 @@ def test_manuscript_directories_exist(self): self.assertTrue((self.vault / relative).is_dir(), relative) # Short-form pieces are one note each; the vault files name this directory. self.assertTrue((self.vault / "06-manuscript/pieces").is_dir()) + # A listening edition is manuscript and is kept apart from the written chapters. + self.assertIn("06-manuscript/editions/", paths) + self.assertTrue((self.vault / "06-manuscript/editions").is_dir()) + self.assertIn("Listening editions", read(self.vault / "06-manuscript/index.md")) + + def test_listening_edition_template_exists(self): + template = self.vault / "90-templates/listening-edition.md" + self.assertTrue(template.is_file()) + fields = frontmatter(template) + self.assertEqual("template", fields.get("type")) + self.assertEqual("listening-edition", fields.get("template_type")) def test_templates_for_both_forms_exist(self): templates = self.vault / "90-templates" @@ -676,8 +758,10 @@ def test_scan_covers_the_package(self): "docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md", "tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json", "evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json", + "evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json", + "evals/shared/triggers/story-video-production.json", "shared/story/rules.md", f"{VAULT}/AGENTS.md"} - expected |= {f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md" for name in STORY_SKILLS + READER_SKILLS} + expected |= {f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md" for name in STORY_SKILLS + READER_SKILLS + FORM_SKILLS} self.assertEqual(set(), expected - scanned) # Nothing the packager leaves out is scanned, and every exemption names a shipped file. self.assertTrue(all(included(name) for name in scanned)) From c9d0b216e7745b342b951fa62b0837226e8a4268 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense <peter.hense@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:29:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 08/11] fix(story): close the second review of narrated story videos (WM-004) - story-video-scripting ends with its own exclusion (tutorial videos), since it scripts a presentation video; policy key story_video_description_suffix - the mode rule decides the files of a story video project: narration text is manuscript, the other project files are working notes - review gate 1 finds vault, edition file and edition revision through script/script.md and reads every speak form against its text - form skills keep no run state for a story video and skip the backlog gate - the tutorial listening style is set aside for story narration - a secret error on story wording stops and goes to the author - story-drafting declines listening editions; new routing case story-listening-edition - form-skill story rule tested by content, not by heading only Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com> --- evals/claude/expected.json | 21 +++++++ evals/codex/expected.json | 21 +++++++ .../triggers/story-listening-edition.json | 16 ++++++ shared/policies/writing-mode.md | 18 ++++-- skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md | 7 ++- skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md | 31 ++++++++--- skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md | 4 +- skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md | 13 +++-- templates/presentation-video/README.md | 6 +- templates/presentation-video/review.md | 8 +++ templates/presentation-video/script/script.md | 6 +- templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md | 2 +- tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json | 31 +++++++++++ tests/test_writing_contracts.py | 10 +++- tests/test_writing_mode.py | 55 +++++++++++++++++-- 15 files changed, 217 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) create mode 100644 evals/shared/triggers/story-listening-edition.json diff --git a/evals/claude/expected.json b/evals/claude/expected.json index 0a3e192..f64b43a 100644 --- a/evals/claude/expected.json +++ b/evals/claude/expected.json @@ -313,6 +313,27 @@ "decision.md" ] }, + "story-listening-edition": { + "primary": "story-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog", + "story-drafting" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, "story-video-production": { "primary": "presentation-video-production", "supporting": [], diff --git a/evals/codex/expected.json b/evals/codex/expected.json index 0a3e192..f64b43a 100644 --- a/evals/codex/expected.json +++ b/evals/codex/expected.json @@ -313,6 +313,27 @@ "decision.md" ] }, + "story-listening-edition": { + "primary": "story-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog", + "story-drafting" + ], + "artifacts": [ + "decision.md" + ] + }, "story-video-production": { "primary": "presentation-video-production", "supporting": [], diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-listening-edition.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-listening-edition.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d90cbd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-listening-edition.json @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +{ + "id": "story-listening-edition", + "prompt": "For the audio version of chapter 11 I want two sentences changed so they work better when heard. The book text in 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md is accepted at revision r2 and must stay exactly as it is. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write or change any story text and do not voice anything.", + "files": { + "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", + "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", + "START.md": "# Ember Road\n\nStory vault. Start with 00-project/brief.md.\n", + "00-project/brief.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nform: long-form\npublication_profile: web-serial\n---\n# Story brief\n\nA courier guild carries sealed letters across a salt desert between rival cities. Reader promise: slow-burn travel adventure with a guild intrigue underneath.\n", + "00-project/voice.md": "---\nkind: story\nstory_id: ember-road\nvoice_revision: V1\nviewpoint: third person limited\ntense: past\ndistance: close\n---\n# Voice sheet\n\n## Narration contract\n\nViewpoint Sena: third person limited, past tense, close distance. No head-hopping inside a scene.\n\n## Tone palette\n\nBaseline: dry, observant, unhurried.\n\n## Anchor passages\n\n- ch-003, revision r4: the night crossing.\n- ch-008, revision r2: the ledger argument.\n", + "00-project/development.md": "# Development state\n\nCurrent pass: drafting arc-01. Next: chapter 12.\n", + "07-continuity/state.md": "# Current state\n\n- Accepted through ch-011, revision r2.\n- The Ash Court seal is black wax (accepted in ch-004).\n- Oren lost his left hand before the story begins (accepted in ch-002).\n", + "05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md": "---\nid: ch-011\nstory_id: ember-road\ntype: chapter\ncanon_status: accepted\nchapter_number: 11\narc_id: arc-01\npov_id: sena\ndraft_status: accepted\naccepted_revision: r2\nvoice_revision: V1\n---\n# Chapter 11 card\n\nProse file: 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md\n\n## Beats\n\n1. Sena reaches the last well, but the keeper refuses guild water.\n2. Therefore she shows the courier's knot and is let through.\n3. She enters the salt with the sealed letter.\n\n## Acceptance\n\nAccepted by the author at revision r2 after the canon review.\n", + "06-manuscript/index.md": "# Manuscript order\n\n| Chapter | Prose file | Card | Arc | POV | Accepted revision |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| ch-010 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-010.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-010.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-011 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-011.md | arc-01 | Sena | r2 |\n| ch-012 | 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-012.md | 05-plot/chapters/ch-012.md | arc-01 | Sena | none |\n", + "06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md": "Sena reached the last well before the salt at first light. The keeper had already drawn the rope up and coiled it on the stone.\n\n\"Guild water is paid at the gate,\" he said. \"Not here.\"\n\nShe showed him the courier's knot on her sleeve. He looked at it for as long as it took a mule to drink, then let the rope down again.\n\nBy noon the salt had begun to sing under her boots. She kept the sealed letter flat against her ribs and did not look back at the well.\n" + } +} diff --git a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md index 9f56d14..08c6cdb 100644 --- a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md +++ b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ order and stop at the first that holds. | Order | Condition | Mode | Governed by | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | The file is a reader-facing vault file (`README.md`, `START.md`, `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md`) or a reader-facing deliverable about the story or the vault, wherever it is stored: documentation or a tutorial-video script with its production files | `reader-oriented` | The reader family's rules | -| 2 | The text is story prose, in-world text or paratext: it goes into a manuscript location of a `kind: story` vault, or the author explicitly asks for story prose | `manuscript` | The voice sheet, then `shared/story/rules.md`. Nothing from the reader family. | -| 3 | The text is another file of a story or study vault, or a research note | `working-note` | The story skills. Plain notes: neither the voice sheet nor didactic structure. | +| 2 | The text is story prose, in-world text or paratext: it goes into a manuscript location of a `kind: story` vault, or the author explicitly asks for story prose; or it is the narration `text` in `src/narration.json` of a video project whose `video.json` has `purpose: story`, wherever the project is stored: a segmented copy of manuscript text | `manuscript` | The voice sheet, then `shared/story/rules.md`. Nothing from the reader family. | +| 3 | The text is another file of a story or study vault, a research note, or another file of a story video project (`video.json`, a scene `message`, `script/script.md`, `pronunciation.json`), wherever it is stored | `working-note` | The story skills. Plain notes: neither the voice sheet nor didactic structure. | | 4 | Everything else, including every reply to the author | `reader-oriented` | The reader family's rules, unchanged | The subject never sets the mode. A reply that talks about a story is still a @@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ reply, and it stays reader-oriented inside a story vault as well. A vault is the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds both `00-project/brief.md` and `00-project/voice.md`. Its `kind` field in the -frontmatter decides what may be written there. +frontmatter decides what may be written there. For a story video the vault is +the one that holds the unit being scripted, not an ancestor of the video +project. | `kind` | Permits | Otherwise | |---|---|---| @@ -77,6 +79,9 @@ In both forms a listening edition is a prose-only file under `06-manuscript/editions/listening/`, one per chapter or piece. It is manuscript and follows the voice sheet; it names the manuscript revision it is based on. A verbatim edition needs no file: the manuscript itself is the text. +Narration lines of a story video are a copy. The authoritative text stays at +its fixed location (the chapter, the piece or the listening edition), and the +narration takes its mode and voice sheet from that unit's vault. The split into prose files applies to long-form work only. A short piece keeps card and prose in one note, and the heading draws the line: only the text under @@ -93,7 +98,7 @@ read, and this file is what they are compared with. | Carrier | Content | |---|---| -| Description of every story skill | Ends with the exclusion of session replies, documentation and presentation videos | +| Description of every story skill | Ends with the exclusion of session replies, documentation and presentation videos. `story-video-scripting` scripts a story video, so its description ends with the exclusion of session replies, documentation and tutorial videos instead. | | First paragraph of every story skill body | The mode check: find the vault, read its kind | | Second paragraph of the story skills listed under `precedence_story_skills` | The precedence sentence: the voice sheet overrides the four didactic and prose skills for manuscript text | | Description of the eight reader skills listed under `excluded_reader_skills` | Ends with the exclusion of story manuscripts and in-world text | @@ -106,7 +111,7 @@ read, and this file is what they are compared with. |---|---|---| | 1. Names | Every story skill starts with `story-`; no name equals a shared, reader or engineering skill name or contains `continuity` | The names are as stated | | 2. Descriptions and opening lines | Reciprocal exclusions and the precedence sentence | The sentences are present and equal the policy block. Whether a model follows them is statistical. | -| 3. Link firewall | Story files link only into `shared/story/`, `templates/story-vault/`, other story skills, this file, `shared/policies/proportionality.md` and `skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md`. For a story video they also link the video project template, the two form skills and `shared/media/speech-synthesis.md`. Reader files and form skills never link into the story directories. Backticked skill names are checked against the family map as well; form skills may be named by both families and may name skills of both. | A skill cannot pull the other family's rule files in through links | +| 3. Link firewall | Story files link only into `shared/story/`, `templates/story-vault/`, other story skills, this file, `shared/policies/proportionality.md` and `skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md`. For a story video they also link the video project template, the two form skills and `shared/media/speech-synthesis.md`. Reader files and form skills never link into the story directories. Links are not followed further: a form skill carries tutorial-only links that its Story scripts section sets aside for `purpose: story`. Backticked skill names are checked against the family map as well; form skills may be named by both families and may name skills of both. | A skill cannot pull the other family's rule files in through links | | 4. No lifecycle graph | No story skill appears in `shared/policies/lifecycle-handoffs.md` | The graph contains no story node | | 5. Vault kind | Only `kind: story` permits drafting, and only with the three voice fields filled | The starter and the skills state the rule | @@ -142,7 +147,7 @@ not that a host obeys it. | A story excerpt quoted in documentation | Quoted material, unchanged | | An explanatory narrated video about a story or its world | `reader-oriented`, under `tutorial-video-scripting` | | A tutorial video about a story, its world or the story method | Stays with `tutorial-video-scripting`, also inside a story vault; no story skill scripts it | -| Narration of a story video (an accepted chapter, range or short piece read aloud over pictures) | `manuscript`, written by the story family under `story-video-scripting`, as a `verbatim` or a `listening` edition; voiced and rendered by the form skills, which never restyle it. Wording findings return to the story family and the author. | +| Narration of a story video (an accepted chapter, range or short piece read aloud over pictures) | `manuscript`, written by the story family under `story-video-scripting`, as a `verbatim` or a `listening` edition; voiced and rendered by the form skills, which never restyle it. The tutorial listening style in `shared/media/spoken-style.md` does not apply to story narration. Wording findings return to the story family and the author. | | Any other dramatised fiction: an audio-only book, a performance with several voices | Outside the method for now | | Beta-reader or author feedback on a chapter | `story-canon-review` for canon, `story-voice-review` for voice; not `receiving-code-review` | | Notes and craft exercises in a study vault | `working-note`, under `story-craft-research`; never a draft against the studied work's canon | @@ -202,6 +207,7 @@ The entries under `sentences` are the exact text the carriers hold. "story_opening": "Mode check first, under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md): find the nearest ancestor of the target file that holds 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter routes to story-bootstrap.", "precedence": "For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writing-procedures, empathic-troubleshooting and human-prose-drafting, even when those skills are loaded in this session.", "story_description_suffix": "Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos.", + "story_video_description_suffix": "Not for session replies, documentation or tutorial videos.", "reader_description_clause": "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text.", "reader_opening": "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop and use the story family under [writing mode](../../shared/policies/writing-mode.md).", "vault_instruction": "Manuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply." diff --git a/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md b/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md index 8ac445e..b6badb4 100644 --- a/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Follow the [recovery gate](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#recovery-gate) and the backlog skill directly. No documentation skill is part of the video lifecycle. For an untracked single video, the files on disk are the state: completed sound is reused, so every step can be run again after an interruption. +A story video keeps no run state. Skip this preamble; see [Story scripts](#story-scripts). ## Trigger @@ -139,12 +140,14 @@ accepted manuscript (`"edition": "verbatim"`) or an accepted listening edition pronunciation. Pace is adjusted through an effective provider setting or the pause value only. - A wrong name or term is corrected in `pronunciation.json` or with a line's - `speak`, which changes the sound and never the caption text. + `speak`, which changes the sound and never the caption text or the words. - A line that the script check rejects, or that needs other words to work aloud, goes back to `story-video-scripting` and the author. The same holds for "one sentence changed": the changed line arrives from there; this skill voices it and repeats the steps above. - Scene pictures follow the plain descriptions in `script/script.md`. +- A story video keeps no run state. Do not open the backlog skill and create no run + directory; the files of the video project are the state. ## Playbook @@ -167,4 +170,4 @@ not acceptance: the delivery gate belongs to the review. - `verification-before-completion` before any "rendered" or "ready" claim. - `playbook-authoring`, `playbook-review` for the production playbook. -- `project-backlog` when the video is tracked under a work ID. +- `project-backlog` when a tutorial video is tracked under a work ID. diff --git a/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md b/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md index 76def13..6c689b5 100644 --- a/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Follow the [recovery gate](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#recovery-gate) and the [operational handoffs](../project-backlog/SKILL.md#operational-handoffs) of the backlog skill directly. No documentation skill is part of the video lifecycle. For an untracked single video the review record on disk is the state. +A story video keeps no run state. Skip this preamble; see [Story scripts](#story-scripts). ## Trigger @@ -36,7 +37,9 @@ about to be delivered (gate 2). rendered file, `video-profile.json`. - The subject itself, to verify claims against it. For a story script instead: the manuscript or listening edition at the revisions named in - `video.json`. + `video.json` and, for a listening edition, the `edition_revision` named in + `script/script.md`. The vault and the edition file are found from the paths + in `script/script.md`. ## Produces @@ -116,23 +119,37 @@ accepted manuscript (`"edition": "verbatim"`) or an accepted listening edition or changes its wording, tone or order. - **Gate 1** replaces the source, tone, honesty and term checks with one - comparison: every narration line matches the named edition at the revision - under `based_on`, in order and without gaps. Verbatim: word for word against - the manuscript; only the cut into scenes and lines may differ. Listening: - word for word against the edition file. A difference is a finding, Critical - when words were changed, added or dropped. Also confirm one audience and + comparison: every narration line matches the named edition at its + revision, in order and without gaps. Verbatim: word for word against the + manuscript at the `revision` under `based_on`; only the cut into scenes and + lines may differ. Listening: word for word against the edition file named + in `script/script.md`, at the `edition_revision` named there; the edition's + `based_on_revision` must equal the `revision` under `based_on`. An edition + file at another revision than the one `script/script.md` names makes the + script stale: an Important finding. The comparison is on the caption + `text`. Every `speak` form is read against its `text`: it may respell the + same words for the voice, never add, drop, replace or reorder a word; the + script check's similarity threshold does not prove this. A difference is a + finding, Critical when words were changed, added or dropped. Also confirm one audience and form of address in `video.json`, that invented names and other key terms are in the pronunciation list, and that no secret or private data of a real person is in text or planned picture. The checks for recreated interfaces apply only when `recreated` is set. - **Gate 2** is unchanged except for the listening check: judge pronunciation, pace, pauses and audible cuts, not style. A tone or a - sentence the reviewer would have written differently is not a finding. The + sentence the reviewer would have written differently is not a finding. + Re-read every `speak` form added or changed since gate 1 against its + `text` under the same rule. The project record names the edition and the manuscript revisions in place of sources. - Wording findings return to `story-video-scripting` and the author: a transcription error is fixed against the manuscript; any other change is an author decision. They never go to `tutorial-video-scripting`. +- The tutorial listening style in `shared/media/spoken-style.md` does not apply to story narration. +- The review record takes the story rows named in the review template in + place of the source and tone rows, and records no tone judgement. +- A story video keeps no run state. Do not open the backlog skill and create no run + directory; the review record in the video project is the state. ## Completion diff --git a/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md b/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md index 80b2094..776dfe4 100644 --- a/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-drafting/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: story-drafting -description: "Use when story manuscript must be drafted or revised: scenes, chapters and short pieces with controlled viewpoint, distinctive voice, dialogue, rhythm and canon dependencies, including in-world documents such as a letter, report or manual inside the story, and afterword or blurb. Not for documentation humanizing, for promises to evade AI detectors, or for judging accepted prose. Not for a study vault or an unused starter vault. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +description: "Use when story manuscript must be drafted or revised: scenes, chapters and short pieces with controlled viewpoint, distinctive voice, dialogue, rhythm and canon dependencies, including in-world documents such as a letter, report or manual inside the story, and afterword or blurb. Not for documentation humanizing, for promises to evade AI detectors, or for judging accepted prose. Not for a listening edition of an accepted chapter for a narrated story video. Not for a study vault or an unused starter vault. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." --- # Story drafting @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Write prose to the path given by `form` in the brief: When the author asks for a story passage outside any vault, write it in a fenced block with the method defaults below and say that no voice sheet applies. The reply around a passage is a reply, not manuscript, and never restyles it. +Files under `06-manuscript/editions/` are created and changed by `story-video-scripting`, not here. A change that alters what happens still comes back to this skill as a manuscript revision. + ## Before drafting Read [rules](../../shared/story/rules.md), the story voice sheet and the current scene/chapter context packet described in [workflow](../../shared/story/workflow.md). Besides the files and revisions the workflow lists, the packet names the voice sheet revision in force and the voice cards of the characters who speak in this unit; see [voice and tone](../../shared/story/voice-and-tone.md). Retrieve original accepted passages for pivotal dependencies. diff --git a/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md b/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md index 2ace98a..b266561 100644 --- a/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: story-video-scripting -description: "Use when an accepted chapter, chapter range or short piece of a story vault must become the script of a narrated story video, an audiobook with pictures: the accepted manuscript segmented word for word into scenes and narration lines, or an author-approved listening edition, with the script files the production step reads. Not for a tutorial video about a story or its world, for drafting new story text, for changing canon, or for voicing or rendering. Not for a study vault or an unused starter vault. Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +description: "Use when an accepted chapter, chapter range or short piece of a story vault must become the script of a narrated story video, an audiobook with pictures: the accepted manuscript segmented word for word into scenes and narration lines, or an author-approved listening edition, with the script files the production step reads. Not for a tutorial video about a story or its world, for drafting new story text, for changing canon, or for voicing or rendering. Not for a study vault or an unused starter vault. Not for session replies, documentation or tutorial videos." --- # Story video scripting @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ For manuscript text the story's voice sheet overrides explaining-concepts, writi No run state: this skill has no recovery preamble and hands off to no backlog or run-tracking skill. A story or study vault keeps no backlog and no run directory; its state lives in 00-project/development.md and 00-project/decisions.md. -This skill is experimental. It turns accepted story text into the script of a narrated presentation video: scenes, narration lines and plain picture descriptions. The story family owns the text; the form skills voice, time, render and check the accepted script and never restyle it. Nothing is voiced or rendered here. +This skill is experimental. It turns accepted story text into the script of a narrated story video: scenes, narration lines and plain picture descriptions. The story family owns the text; the form skills voice, time, render and check the accepted script and never restyle it. Nothing is voiced or rendered here. ## When to use @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ The author wants an accepted chapter, a chapter range or a short piece told as a - The vault is of kind story. In a starter, stop and route to `story-bootstrap`. In a study vault, decline: nothing is scripted from a studied work. - Every unit in scope is accepted, and its accepted revision is named: the `Accepted revision` column of `06-manuscript/index.md`, confirmed by the acceptance record of the chapter card or short piece. A unit without a recorded acceptance is not scripted; say which one is missing and stop. -- The voice sheet `00-project/voice.md` is read at the revision the unit was accepted under. It governs every narration line. +- The voice sheet `00-project/voice.md` is read at the revision the unit was accepted under. It governs every narration line. The tutorial listening style in `shared/media/spoken-style.md` does not apply to story narration. +- The mode check runs on the manuscript unit being scripted, not on the path of the video project. A video project outside the vault still takes its mode and voice sheet from the vault that holds the unit. Only the narration `text` is manuscript; every other file of the video project is a working note. ## Choose the edition with the author @@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ The script lives in a video project, a copy of the [project template](../../temp | File | Content for a story video | | --- | --- | | `video.json` | The fields below | -| `script/script.md` | For the author's review: listener, edition, the chapters with their revisions, the scene table with the picture description of each scene, and the names that must be spoken correctly. A listening edition also names its `edition_revision`. No source table. | +| `script/script.md` | For the author's review: listener, edition, the chapters with their revisions, the scene table with the picture description of each scene, and the names that must be spoken correctly. It also states the path of the vault relative to the video project and the path of each prose or edition file the narration was taken from; a listening edition is named with its `edition_revision`. Once the author has accepted the script, add the decision ID of the acceptance. No source table and no Tone section: the voice sheet governs the narration. | | `src/scenes.json` | Scene order; per scene its `key` (lowercase letters, digits, `_`), `chapter` and `message`. No `sources` and no `no_claims` field. | | `src/narration.json` | Per scene the narration lines. `text` is the edition's wording. | | `pronunciation.json` | Fixed spoken forms, in the existing format | @@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ The script lives in a video project, a copy of the [project template](../../temp "address": "none", "goal": "<what the listener hears>", "recreated": false, - "stale_when": "A unit in based_on receives a later accepted revision." + "stale_when": "A unit in based_on receives a later accepted revision, or its listening edition receives a later accepted edition revision." } ``` @@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ For `"purpose": "story"` the check requires no sources, checks `edition` and `ba - A **line-length error** is resolved by the clause split above, never by rewording. - A **speakable warning** on a number or an abbreviation is decided line by line. A `speak` form may spell the same words the way they are read aloud; the caption `text` stays as the edition has it. - A **length error** is resolved by a split at a chapter or scene break the author chooses. A verbatim part receives no added opening or closing words. +- A **secret error** on story wording (a spoken password, `the secret: ...`) is never resolved by rewording the line or by a `speak` form, and the check is not edited or bypassed. Stop and show the author the line. A real credential is removed by the author. Story wording is resolved by the author's recorded decision in `00-project/decisions.md`: a listening edition, or a manuscript revision with a new accepted revision, that changes the punctuation or wording so the check passes. Errors block voicing. `verification-before-completion` applies to this check and to nothing the author decides. @@ -150,6 +152,7 @@ Then hand the video project to `presentation-video-production`, see [production] | A narration line differs from the verbatim manuscript | This skill: fix the transcription against the accepted revision | | The wording of a listening edition should change | The author: a recorded decision and a new `edition_revision`, then this skill | | The accepted manuscript itself reads wrongly aloud | The author: a listening edition, or a manuscript revision through `story-drafting` with a new accepted revision. Never a silent change in the script. | +| The script check reports a secret in story wording | The author: see the secret error under the script check. Never a reworded line. | | Pronunciation, pace, pauses, picture or the rendered file | Production, in the video project | No wording finding on a story script goes to the tutorial scripting skill, and no form skill rewrites a line. diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/README.md b/templates/presentation-video/README.md index c853510..7943748 100644 --- a/templates/presentation-video/README.md +++ b/templates/presentation-video/README.md @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ The script check then requires `edition` and `based_on`, asks for no source table and no `sources` per scene, and raises no sentence-length warning; every other check stays. A scene's `message` is a working note of what happens in the scene and is not spoken; the picture is a plain description in -`script/script.md`, where the sections Sources and Evidenced, approximated, -invented may be left out unless interfaces are recreated. `audience` and +`script/script.md`, where the section Tone is left out and the sections +Sources and Evidenced, approximated, invented may be left out unless +interfaces are recreated. `script/script.md` also names the paths of the +texts narrated and, for a listening edition, its `edition_revision`. `audience` and `address` stay required (the listener; `address` may be `none`). ## From script to file diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/review.md b/templates/presentation-video/review.md index de0b4c0..96e2fa9 100644 --- a/templates/presentation-video/review.md +++ b/templates/presentation-video/review.md @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ | No secret, credential or private data | | | | Key terms flagged in the pronunciation list | | | +For a story video (`"purpose": "story"` in `video.json`), replace the rows +"Sources confirm the claims of their scenes" and "One audience, one form of +address, friendly tone" with "Every narration line matches the <edition> +edition of <chapter-id> at <revision>" (evidence: the comparison and the +revision compared) and "One audience and one form of address in +`video.json`". The row on recreated interfaces is not applicable unless +`recreated` is set. No tone judgement is recorded. + Gate 1: <passed / open> on <date> ## Gate 2: before delivery diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/script/script.md b/templates/presentation-video/script/script.md index 303422e..f117d2c 100644 --- a/templates/presentation-video/script/script.md +++ b/templates/presentation-video/script/script.md @@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ Replace the sample content. Keep the headings: `tools/check_script.py` reads them. The spoken text lives in `src/narration.json`, the scene list in -`src/scenes.json`; this file is what a person reviews. +`src/scenes.json`; this file is what a person reviews. A story video leaves +out Tone, because the story's own voice governs the narration, and may leave +out Sources and Evidenced, approximated, invented unless interfaces are +recreated; it names the edition, the revisions and the paths of the texts +narrated instead. ## Audience diff --git a/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md b/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md index a67af1d..4bcc107 100644 --- a/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md +++ b/templates/story-vault/AGENTS.md @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Drafting also needs `viewpoint`, `tense` and `distance` set in the frontmatter o Afterword, author note and blurb live in `06-manuscript/paratext/` in both forms. In-world documents, such as a letter, a report or a manual that exists inside the story, are manuscript. `06-manuscript/index.md` gives the order; do not rely on file names. -A listening edition under `06-manuscript/editions/listening/<chapter-id>.md` is manuscript too: prose only, derived from an accepted chapter for a narrated video, with every difference approved by the author. It is not canon, and it never changes the chapter it derives from. The files of a video project are kept outside `06-manuscript/`. +A listening edition under `06-manuscript/editions/listening/<chapter-id>.md` is manuscript too: prose only, derived from an accepted chapter for a narrated video, with every difference approved by the author. It is not canon, and it never changes the chapter it derives from. The files of a video project are kept outside `06-manuscript/`. The narration lines of a story video project are manuscript wherever the project lies; its other files are working notes. `publication_profile` in the brief is `unset`, `web-serial`, `light-novel` or `both`. It may stay unset. The only default the method supplies is about 100 chapters per sub-arc under `web-serial` (see `90-templates/arc.md`); otherwise do not assume lengths, chapter counts or illustration counts for a profile, and use only figures the author has recorded. diff --git a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json index 9aab552..53b6eb3 100644 --- a/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json +++ b/tests/fixtures/trigger-cases/matrix.json @@ -436,6 +436,37 @@ "next": "presentation-video-production" } }, + { + "id": "story-listening-edition", + "request": "Change sentences of an accepted chapter for the audio version only; the written manuscript stays as it is.", + "primary": "story-video-scripting", + "supporting": [], + "prohibited": [ + "native-focused-edit", + "explaining-concepts", + "writing-procedures", + "empathic-troubleshooting", + "human-prose-drafting", + "documentation-authoring", + "documentation-planning", + "documentation-review", + "tutorial-video-scripting", + "requesting-code-review", + "receiving-code-review", + "project-backlog", + "story-drafting" + ], + "handoff": { + "consumes": [ + "kind: story vault with an accepted chapter at a named revision", + "voice sheet" + ], + "produces": [ + "a listening edition with every difference approved by the author; the manuscript unchanged" + ], + "next": "presentation-video-production" + } + }, { "id": "story-video-production", "request": "The script of a story video, an accepted chapter read verbatim, is accepted. Voice it, build the timeline, take check stills and render the video.", diff --git a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py index 55336b4..edd71f6 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_contracts.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_contracts.py @@ -45,17 +45,17 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self # Story-positive cases: a story skill is primary and the reader prose skills are prohibited. 'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback', # Narrated story video (WM-004): the story family scripts it, a form skill voices and renders the accepted script. - 'story-video-script','story-video-production', + 'story-video-script','story-listening-edition','story-video-production', # Study vault: story-craft-research is primary and the request is declined; story-drafting may be opened for its mode check. 'study-vault-draft-request', # Negative cases: every story skill is prohibited. 'story-vault-readme','docs-release-note','story-world-tutorial-video','story-method-documentation','vault-parent-session'},{c['id'] for c in matrix}) self.assertEqual(len(matrix),len({c['id'] for c in matrix})) story_primary={c['id'] for c in matrix if c['primary'] in STORY} - self.assertEqual({'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback','study-vault-draft-request','story-video-script'},story_primary) + self.assertEqual({'story-chapter-draft','story-new-vault','story-canon-review','story-voice-review','story-in-world-manual','story-beta-feedback','study-vault-draft-request','story-video-script','story-listening-edition'},story_primary) reader_prose={'explaining-concepts','writing-procedures','empathic-troubleshooting','human-prose-drafting','documentation-authoring','documentation-planning','documentation-review','tutorial-video-scripting'} new_cases=[c for c in matrix if c['id'].startswith(('story-','study-','vault-','docs-release'))] - self.assertEqual(14,len(new_cases)) + self.assertEqual(15,len(new_cases)) for case in new_cases: if case['primary'] in STORY: # Story work never loads the reader prose skills, review-feedback handling or a backlog. @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ def test_routing_scenarios_use_only_available_primary_and_supporting_skills(self self.assertEqual('story-video-scripting',case['primary']) self.assertTrue({'tutorial-video-scripting','presentation-video-production'} <= set(case['prohibited']),case['id']) self.assertEqual('presentation-video-production',case['handoff']['next']) + if case['id']=='story-listening-edition': + # A listening edition belongs to the story video skill; the manuscript skill would revise the book text. + self.assertEqual('story-video-scripting',case['primary']) + self.assertIn('story-drafting',case['prohibited']) elif case['id']=='story-video-production': # A form skill is primary: it voices the accepted story script as it is. Nothing that writes, restyles or judges the text may load. self.assertIn(case['primary'],FORM) diff --git a/tests/test_writing_mode.py b/tests/test_writing_mode.py index 4404aa5..ec6d21d 100644 --- a/tests/test_writing_mode.py +++ b/tests/test_writing_mode.py @@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ "presentation-video-production", "presentation-video-review", ] +# What the Story scripts section of a form skill has to say, beyond its heading. +FORM_STORY_RULE = "wording, tone or order" +FORM_STORY_RETURN = "`story-video-scripting`" +FORM_TUTORIAL_ONLY = "adjusted through wording (tutorial scripts only)" +FORM_NO_RUN_STATE = "A story video keeps no run state." +LISTENING_STYLE_RULE = ( + "The tutorial listening style in `shared/media/spoken-style.md` does not apply to " + "story narration." +) +STORY_VIDEO_SKILL = "story-video-scripting" STORY_SIDE_PREFIXES = ["shared/story/", "templates/story-vault/", "skills/story-"] PRECEDENCE_READER_SKILLS = [ "explaining-concepts", @@ -105,6 +115,8 @@ "those skills are loaded in this session." ) S3 = "Not for session replies, documentation or presentation videos." +# The one story skill that scripts a presentation video excludes tutorial videos instead. +S3_VIDEO = "Not for session replies, documentation or tutorial videos." S4 = "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." S5 = ( "Not for story manuscripts or in-world text: when the target is manuscript, stop " @@ -119,6 +131,7 @@ "story_opening": S1, "precedence": S2, "story_description_suffix": S3, + "story_video_description_suffix": S3_VIDEO, "reader_description_clause": S4, "reader_opening": S5, "vault_instruction": S6, @@ -458,6 +471,9 @@ def test_story_video_scripting_opens_like_a_manuscript_skill(self): paragraphs[:3]) description = skill_description("story-video-scripting") self.assertTrue(description.startswith("Use when "), description) + # It scripts a presentation video, so it cannot end by excluding presentation videos. + self.assertTrue(description.endswith(self.sentences["story_video_description_suffix"]), description) + self.assertNotIn(self.sentences["story_description_suffix"], description) def test_form_descriptions_carry_no_family_exclusion(self): # A form skill serves both families, so neither family's exclusion sentence may end it. @@ -467,14 +483,16 @@ def test_form_descriptions_carry_no_family_exclusion(self): self.assertTrue(description.startswith("Use when "), description) self.assertIn("story video", description) self.assertNotIn(self.sentences["story_description_suffix"], description) + self.assertNotIn(self.sentences["story_video_description_suffix"], description) self.assertNotIn(self.sentences["reader_description_clause"], description) def test_every_story_description_ends_with_the_exclusion(self): for name in self.policy["families"]["story"]: with self.subTest(skill=name): - self.assertTrue( - skill_description(name).endswith(self.sentences["story_description_suffix"]), - skill_description(name)) + key = ("story_video_description_suffix" if name == STORY_VIDEO_SKILL + else "story_description_suffix") + self.assertTrue(skill_description(name).endswith(self.sentences[key]), + skill_description(name)) def test_excluded_reader_descriptions_end_with_the_story_exclusion(self): for name in self.policy["excluded_reader_skills"]: @@ -556,7 +574,35 @@ def test_form_skills_state_the_story_script_rule(self): # A form skill may name skills of both families in backticks; it never restyles a story script. for name in self.policy["families"]["form"]: with self.subTest(skill=name): - self.assertIn("\n## Story scripts\n", read(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md")) + text = read(f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md") + self.assertIn("\n## Story scripts\n", text) + section = squash(text.split("\n## Story scripts\n", 1)[1].split("\n## ", 1)[0]) + self.assertIn(FORM_STORY_RULE, section) + self.assertIn("never", section.lower()) + self.assertIn(FORM_STORY_RETURN, section) + # A story video is never sent to the backlog recovery gate, in the preamble or in the section. + self.assertIn(FORM_NO_RUN_STATE, section) + preamble = squash(text.split("\n## Recovery preamble\n", 1)[1].split("\n## ", 1)[0]) + self.assertIn(FORM_NO_RUN_STATE, preamble) + production = read("skills/presentation-video-production/SKILL.md") + self.assertIn(FORM_TUTORIAL_ONLY, squash(production)) + self.assertIn("Pace is adjusted through an effective provider setting or the pause value only.", + squash(production.split("\n## Story scripts\n", 1)[1].split("\n## ", 1)[0])) + + def test_tutorial_listening_style_is_set_aside_for_story_narration(self): + # The review skill links the tutorial listening style; the rule that it does not govern a story is stated where it is read. + review = read("skills/presentation-video-review/SKILL.md") + self.assertIn(LISTENING_STYLE_RULE, + squash(review.split("\n## Story scripts\n", 1)[1].split("\n## ", 1)[0])) + self.assertIn(LISTENING_STYLE_RULE, squash(read("skills/story-video-scripting/SKILL.md"))) + self.assertIn(LISTENING_STYLE_RULE, squash(read(HUB))) + + def test_hub_decides_the_files_of_a_story_video_project(self): + hub = read(HUB) + row = next(line for line in hub.splitlines() if line.startswith("| 2 |")) + self.assertIn("`src/narration.json`", row) + self.assertIn("`purpose: story`", row) + self.assertIn("story video project", next(line for line in hub.splitlines() if line.startswith("| 3 |"))) def test_policy_files_refer_to_the_story_side_only_through_the_hub(self): story_side = self.policy["reader_link_deny_prefixes"] @@ -760,6 +806,7 @@ def test_scan_covers_the_package(self): "evals/shared/triggers/story-chapter-draft.json", "evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json", "evals/shared/triggers/story-video-production.json", + "evals/shared/triggers/story-listening-edition.json", "shared/story/rules.md", f"{VAULT}/AGENTS.md"} expected |= {f"skills/{name}/SKILL.md" for name in STORY_SKILLS + READER_SKILLS + FORM_SKILLS} self.assertEqual(set(), expected - scanned) From d583c745f326aa3b42473f6537e4431e1feed75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense <peter.hense@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:39:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 09/11] test(story): story-video-script names where its decision record goes Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com> --- evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json b/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json index a7aedf0..a0f63ab 100644 --- a/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json +++ b/evals/shared/triggers/story-video-script.json @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ { "id": "story-video-script", - "prompt": "Turn chapter 11 of this story into the script of a narrated video, an audiobook with pictures. The chapter is accepted at revision r2 in 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md and is to be read verbatim. The video project goes to 08-video/ch-011/. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md; do not write the script and do not voice anything.", + "prompt": "Turn chapter 11 of this story into the script of a narrated video, an audiobook with pictures. The chapter is accepted at revision r2 in 06-manuscript/chapters/ch-011.md and is to be read verbatim. The video project goes to 08-video/ch-011/. Perform only the first safe assessment: select the workflow, load the applicable skills, and record decision.md in the root of this vault; do not write the script and do not voice anything.", "files": { "AGENTS.md": "# Vault instructions\n\nThis directory is one vault. Its kind is stated in the frontmatter of 00-project/brief.md and 00-project/voice.md; here it is `story`. Only kind story permits manuscript drafting; kind study permits study notes only; kind starter is an unused template.\n\nManuscript files follow 00-project/voice.md and nothing from documentation or didactic writing rules. Other vault notes are plain working notes. Replies to the author stay reader-oriented; the voice sheet never styles a reply.\n", "CLAUDE.md": "@AGENTS.md\n", From 6fda20d7225851b945239b7cb31a989927b4c51d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense <peter.hense@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 19:06:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 10/11] chore(skills): keep the published skill authoring limits; sync method-core 4300085 - contents list at the top of the four reference files above 100 lines - empathic-troubleshooting description in the third person - core sync brings tests/test_skill_authoring.py and the platform adapters with a contents list Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com> --- method-core.lock.json | 11 ++- shared/platform/claude.md | 8 ++ shared/platform/codex.md | 8 ++ shared/policies/writing-mode.md | 14 +++ skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md | 2 +- templates/documentation/book/DESIGN.md | 11 +++ templates/documentation/pdf/DESIGN.md | 10 ++ templates/presentation-video/README.md | 10 ++ tests/test_skill_authoring.py | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/test_skill_authoring.py diff --git a/method-core.lock.json b/method-core.lock.json index 72b5225..4e248b3 100644 --- a/method-core.lock.json +++ b/method-core.lock.json @@ -138,12 +138,12 @@ { "mode": "100644", "path": "shared/platform/claude.md", - "sha256": "6534484a16e086ee7328ecfec82a747363cd857661319ce9bc65d2932633925a" + "sha256": "be35b70b8fc0990da7975b3df4bd7007ca590d6288c2a2f98d46ef1deb88d4ad" }, { "mode": "100644", "path": "shared/platform/codex.md", - "sha256": "b9b2f32eff905f183cfb1f685ddf126363e52847e46bdb160f0f24ead9008e2a" + "sha256": "be2002849b7e7dc20da86e9574a8fc0150208f1dfa61de27eb9034b822ebcaee" }, { "mode": "100644", @@ -340,6 +340,11 @@ "path": "tests/test_platform_adapters.py", "sha256": "0e2970719f66384db7fd33db57959ce2c44770801eca86e0721f688dcd922dd9" }, + { + "mode": "100644", + "path": "tests/test_skill_authoring.py", + "sha256": "f0b6f864491cd226840ea36580f6873f43bc1d2c675517714f0090255493bc6b" + }, { "mode": "100644", "path": "third-party/core-sources.lock.json", @@ -347,7 +352,7 @@ } ], "repository": "https://github.com/phense/method-core.git", - "revision": "087476ccedf03342604e110768d9b528b5ae00ba", + "revision": "4300085b164686cc359a98cf7b3ee965cbd886b0", "schema_version": 1, "version": "0.1.0" } diff --git a/shared/platform/claude.md b/shared/platform/claude.md index da12e6f..6196abb 100644 --- a/shared/platform/claude.md +++ b/shared/platform/claude.md @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Shared Method Core host mapping. Shared skills keep semantic names; resolve them against this adapter in Claude Code. The conventional plugin-root `skills/` directory is the same tree exposed by the Codex manifest. +## Contents + +- Host mapping (the JSON block below) +- Capability resolution +- Isolation and continuity +- Verified CLI interfaces +- Method integration + ```json { "host": "claude", diff --git a/shared/platform/codex.md b/shared/platform/codex.md index 28010bd..c853a1a 100644 --- a/shared/platform/codex.md +++ b/shared/platform/codex.md @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Shared Method Core host mapping. Shared skills keep semantic names; resolve those names against this adapter when executing in Codex. Both host manifests expose the same plugin-root `skills/` tree. +## Contents + +- Host mapping (the JSON block below) +- Capability resolution +- Isolation and continuity +- Verified CLI interfaces +- Method integration + ```json { "host": "codex", diff --git a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md index 08c6cdb..c63be0c 100644 --- a/shared/policies/writing-mode.md +++ b/shared/policies/writing-mode.md @@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ families refer to it; it links into none. The operative sentences that skills an vault files carry are stored in the policy block at the end and are tested against it. +## Contents + +- Terms +- Mode decision +- Signals +- Storage decision +- Where the rule is read +- Layers and what each proves +- Limits +- Mixed situations +- Completion in the story family +- Orchestration +- Policy block + ## Terms | Term | Meaning | diff --git a/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md b/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md index 480ad61..91c2b99 100644 --- a/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/empathic-troubleshooting/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: empathic-troubleshooting -description: "Use when writing help for something that has gone wrong or may go wrong, in documentation or an ordinary reply: start from what the reader sees, name likely causes in order, give the first check, then the fix and its confirmation. Not for diagnosing a defect in code you own (engineering diagnosis is outside this plugin), for normal procedures, or for reference lists of error codes. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." +description: "Use when writing help for something that has gone wrong or may go wrong, in documentation or an ordinary reply: start from what the reader sees, name likely causes in order, give the first check, then the fix and its confirmation. Not for diagnosing a defect in the project's own code (engineering diagnosis is outside this plugin), for normal procedures, or for reference lists of error codes. Not for story manuscripts or in-world text." --- # Empathic Troubleshooting diff --git a/templates/documentation/book/DESIGN.md b/templates/documentation/book/DESIGN.md index 61fced9..eaf9b8a 100644 --- a/templates/documentation/book/DESIGN.md +++ b/templates/documentation/book/DESIGN.md @@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ with mirrored margins, a dark-navy title page, a title page for each part, and a running head that names the part, the chapter and the page. The layout and the sample text are original. +## Contents + +- When to choose it +- Build +- Parts, chapters and order +- Settings +- What the filter does to the text +- Pages that end with a few lines +- Verification +- Limits + ## When to choose it | Situation | Template | diff --git a/templates/documentation/pdf/DESIGN.md b/templates/documentation/pdf/DESIGN.md index c7e93d0..e2b15f7 100644 --- a/templates/documentation/pdf/DESIGN.md +++ b/templates/documentation/pdf/DESIGN.md @@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ has one focal point, the contents begin on their own page, chapter numbers are typography rather than badges, and colour supports the hierarchy instead of carrying it alone. +## Contents + +- Build +- Source and order +- Design settings +- Typographic rationale +- Typst and LaTeX +- Language and numbering +- Verification + ## Build Copy this directory's source files into a new documentation directory. Exclude diff --git a/templates/presentation-video/README.md b/templates/presentation-video/README.md index 7943748..0f81a78 100644 --- a/templates/presentation-video/README.md +++ b/templates/presentation-video/README.md @@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ plugin has changed. Replace this page with the record of your video when it is delivered; the section **Project record** at the end shows what belongs in it. +## Contents + +- Terms +- What you need +- Files you write +- From script to file +- When something fails +- Fonts +- Project record + ## Terms | Term | Meaning | diff --git a/tests/test_skill_authoring.py b/tests/test_skill_authoring.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1ae6f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/test_skill_authoring.py @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +"""Skill files follow the published skill authoring limits. + +The limits come from Anthropic's skill authoring guidance: a name of at most 64 +lowercase letters, digits and hyphens without a reserved word; a description of +at most 1,024 characters in the third person without XML tags; a SKILL.md body +under 500 lines; forward slashes in paths; and a contents list at the top of +every reference file longer than 100 lines, so that a partial read still shows +its scope. The frontmatter keys are the ones every host accepts. +""" + +from __future__ import annotations + +import re +import unittest +from pathlib import Path + +ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] +NAME = re.compile(r"[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*") +RESERVED = ("anthropic", "claude") +PORTABLE_KEYS = {"name", "description", "license", "compatibility", "metadata", "allowed-tools"} +MAX_NAME = 64 +MAX_DESCRIPTION = 1024 +MAX_BODY_LINES = 500 +CONTENTS_ABOVE_LINES = 100 +CONTENTS_WITHIN_LINES = 40 +FRONTMATTER = re.compile(r"\A---\n(.*?)\n---\n", re.S) +LINK = re.compile(r"\[[^\]]*\]\(<?([^)>#\s]+)[^)]*\)") +CONTENTS = re.compile(r"^#{1,3}\s*(Contents|Table of contents)\s*$", re.I | re.M) +NOT_THIRD_PERSON = re.compile(r"\b(I|we|you|your|my|our)\b") + + +def skill_files() -> list[Path]: + return sorted(ROOT.glob("skills/*/SKILL.md")) + + +def split(path: Path) -> tuple[dict[str, str], str]: + text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") + match = FRONTMATTER.match(text) + if match is None: + return {}, text + fields: dict[str, str] = {} + for line in match.group(1).splitlines(): + if line[:1] in (" ", "\t", "#") or ":" not in line: + continue + key, _, value = line.partition(":") + value = value.strip() + if len(value) >= 2 and value[0] == value[-1] and value[0] in "\"'": + value = value[1:-1] + fields[key.strip()] = value + return fields, text[match.end():] + + +def linked_markdown(path: Path) -> set[Path]: + found = set() + for target in LINK.findall(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore")): + if "://" in target or target.startswith("mailto:"): + continue + resolved = (path.parent / target).resolve() + if resolved.suffix == ".md" and resolved.is_file() and ROOT in resolved.parents: + found.add(resolved) + return found + + +def reference_files() -> set[Path]: + """Markdown a skill can be sent to: the shared and skill directories, and links two levels deep.""" + found = {p.resolve() for base in ("shared", "skills") for p in (ROOT / base).rglob("*.md")} + for skill in skill_files(): + first = linked_markdown(skill) + found |= first + for path in first: + found |= linked_markdown(path) + return {p for p in found if p.name != "SKILL.md"} + + +class SkillAuthoringTests(unittest.TestCase): + def test_there_are_skills_to_check(self) -> None: + self.assertTrue(skill_files()) + + def test_frontmatter_names_the_skill_within_the_limits(self) -> None: + for path in skill_files(): + with self.subTest(skill=path.parent.name): + fields, _ = split(path) + self.assertTrue(set(fields) <= PORTABLE_KEYS, sorted(set(fields) - PORTABLE_KEYS)) + name = fields.get("name", "") + self.assertEqual(path.parent.name, name) + self.assertLessEqual(len(name), MAX_NAME) + self.assertRegex(name, rf"\A{NAME.pattern}\Z") + self.assertFalse([word for word in RESERVED if word in name]) + + def test_description_is_bounded_plain_and_in_the_third_person(self) -> None: + for path in skill_files(): + with self.subTest(skill=path.parent.name): + description = split(path)[0].get("description", "") + self.assertTrue(description.strip()) + self.assertLessEqual(len(description), MAX_DESCRIPTION) + self.assertNotRegex(description, r"[<>]") + self.assertEqual([], NOT_THIRD_PERSON.findall(description)) + + def test_body_stays_under_the_line_limit(self) -> None: + for path in skill_files(): + with self.subTest(skill=path.parent.name): + self.assertLess(len(split(path)[1].splitlines()), MAX_BODY_LINES) + + def test_links_use_forward_slashes(self) -> None: + for path in skill_files(): + with self.subTest(skill=path.parent.name): + targets = LINK.findall(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) + self.assertEqual([], [target for target in targets if "\\" in target]) + + def test_long_reference_files_open_with_a_contents_list(self) -> None: + missing = [] + for path in sorted(reference_files()): + lines = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore").splitlines() + if len(lines) > CONTENTS_ABOVE_LINES and not CONTENTS.search("\n".join(lines[:CONTENTS_WITHIN_LINES])): + missing.append(f"{path.relative_to(ROOT)} ({len(lines)} lines)") + self.assertEqual([], missing) + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + unittest.main() From c7d71248fba361bd18b079f777658d1ecb0c13f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hense <peter.hense@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 19:32:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 11/11] docs(story): record the full host run and the unscripted requests (WM-003, WM-004) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com> --- README.md | 2 +- docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md | 2 +- docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md | 75 +++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 79e7789..9ea256e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ No video has been produced with this path. How invented names are pronounced and - **Produced text is not measured.** No check reads a chapter for documentation habits, or a reply for a story's voice. - **No story pilot exists.** The skills are structurally checked and have not been proven on a real story. Light-novel figures such as volume length are left unset, not asserted. - **No story video exists.** The script check and the routing expectations for story videos are tested; nothing has been voiced or rendered from a story script. -- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** The twelve story routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` pass on Claude and Codex after two corrections; the record, including the two expectations changed after the first run, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. With the story family present, eight of the nine earlier documentation and video cases pass on both hosts; `presentation-video-production` fails, as it already does on Codex without the story family. The two story video cases added later, `story-video-script` and `story-video-production`, have not been run on a host. OpenCode was not exercised. +- **Host routing is checked once, not measured as a rate.** In the last full run each of the 24 routing cases under `evals/shared/triggers/` ran once per host: Claude passed 24 of 24, Codex 22 of 24. The two Codex failures, repeated twice, are a marketing clip correctly sent to focused editing with the video production skill reported as supporting (1 of 3 passed), and a draft request in a study vault where Codex names `story-drafting` and not `story-craft-research` as primary (0 of 3 passed); the harness cannot see that the draft is declined. Eleven unscripted German requests without any skill name loaded the expected skill in 9 of 11 cases on Claude and 11 of 11 on Codex, once each. The record, including three expectations or prompts changed after seeing a result, is in `docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md`. OpenCode was not exercised. The family originated in a private research workspace. That workspace's research notes and its studies of existing works are not part of this plugin. diff --git a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md index 8f86758..6c19007 100644 --- a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md +++ b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/design.md @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ render and check an accepted script and never restyle its text. `presentation-video-production` prohibited) and `story-video-production` (primary `presentation-video-production`; scripting, drafting, voice review and the didactic skills prohibited). The four negative cases that prohibit every story - skill now also prohibit `story-video-scripting`. None of these has been run on a host. + skill now also prohibit `story-video-scripting`. A third case, `story-listening-edition`, covers a change for the audio version only. The host results are in `rehearsal.md`. - No story video has been produced: no provider call and no render belong to this extension. - Still deferred: delivery as an e-book (`story-manuscript-export`), diff --git a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md index 5501070..5a56e57 100644 --- a/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md +++ b/docs/specs/WM-003-story-family/rehearsal.md @@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ in any of the eighteen runs. In the failing case both hosts chose `presentation-video-production` as primary and additionally applied `documentation-authoring`, which the case prohibits. -The production skill itself sends the reader to the recovery preamble of -`documentation-authoring`. Neither that skill nor the case is changed by this -work. +At `c68dbc1` the production skill itself sent the reader to the recovery +preamble of `documentation-authoring`. Baseline comparison of that one case against release 0.3.0 (`29752ab`, without the story family): @@ -62,8 +61,72 @@ the story family): On Codex the failure exists without the story family. On Claude the case is unstable without it, and failed every time with it. Three runs per side do not show whether this branch makes the case worse. The cause, a production skill -that requires a skill its routing case prohibits, belongs to WM-001 and is not -fixed here. +that requires a skill its routing case prohibits, belongs to WM-001. It was removed +afterwards; see the full run below. + +## Full run at `d583c74`: all 24 cases per host + +Between the regression above and this run, `1d389c3` removed the delegation to +`documentation-authoring` from the three video skills, `2a450b2` added narrated +story videos with the cases `story-video-script` and `story-video-production`, +and `c9d0b21` added the case `story-listening-edition`. Every case ran once per +host. + +| Host | Passed | Failed | +|---|---|---| +| Claude | 24 of 24 | none | +| Codex | 22 of 24 | `marketing-clip-out-of-scope`, `study-vault-draft-request` (both `unexpected_selection`) | + +- `presentation-video-production` passed on both hosts. On Claude it had passed + 3 of 3 at `1d389c3`. +- `story-video-script` first failed on Claude with `missing_artifact`: the host + chose `story-video-scripting` and wrote `decision.md` into the video project + directory that the prompt named. The prompt now says where the record goes + (`d583c74`); the case then passed on both hosts. Changed after seeing the + result. +- The Codex run was interrupted after five cases because that prompt was edited + while it ran; the harness stops when the plugin changes. The remaining + nineteen cases ran one by one at `d583c74`. + +The two Codex failures were repeated twice each at `6fda20d`: + +| Case | Codex | What the host did | +|---|---|---| +| `marketing-clip-out-of-scope` | 1 of 3 passed | Routed to focused editing as expected. In the failing runs it opened `presentation-video-production` to read its exclusions and reported it as supporting, which the case prohibits. | +| `study-vault-draft-request` | 0 of 3 passed | Named `story-drafting` as primary, not `story-craft-research`. The run read in full recorded that the vault is `kind: study` and that drafting is not permitted. The harness scores the selection and cannot see the refusal. | + +Neither expectation was changed. The first is an earlier case of the video +method; at `c68dbc1` it passed once on Codex. The second passed once on Codex +at `788fb4e`. Both are counted as failures. + +## Unscripted requests (2026-11-13) + +The harness tells a host to select a workflow. To see what happens without +that instruction, eleven plain German requests were sent once each to a host +with Writing Method and Engineering Method both loaded: no skill name, no +routing instruction, read-only tools. The probe is a script outside this +repository, not a harness, and one run per case is an observation, not a rate. + +| Request | Expected skill | Claude | Codex | +|---|---|---|---| +| A failing test | `systematic-debugging` | loaded | loaded | +| A new feature across three modules | a specification skill | not loaded | loaded | +| An administrator guide | `documentation-authoring` | loaded | loaded | +| The difference between two Git commands | `explaining-concepts` | not loaded | loaded | +| Start a new story | `story-bootstrap` | loaded | loaded | +| "Write chapter 12" in a story vault | `story-drafting` | loaded | loaded | +| Does chapter 12 still fit what happened before | `story-canon-review` | loaded | loaded | +| Chapters no longer sound like the beginning | `story-voice-review` | loaded | loaded | +| An audiobook video of chapter 11, read as written | `story-video-scripting` | loaded | loaded | +| Two sentences changed for the audio version only | `story-video-scripting` | loaded | loaded | +| A tutorial video for new employees | `tutorial-video-scripting` | loaded | loaded | + +Claude loaded the expected skill in 9 of 11 requests and Codex in 11 of 11. An +earlier Claude run ended each request with "tell me first how you will +proceed": the expected skill was then loaded in 4 of 11 requests and only +named in the plan in 4 more. A request for a plan lowers loading, not the +choice. Claude ran from the working tree, Codex from the installed plugin copy +of the same revision. ## Not covered @@ -73,4 +136,6 @@ fixed here. failed cases. No five-run rate exists for the other cases. - Leakage of one family's rules into produced text, a reply inside a vault and multi-turn sessions are not measurable with this harness. +- The unscripted requests ran once per host; they show no rate and read no + produced text. - OpenCode was not exercised.