Agent skill
phantom-scribe
Kickstart and maintain a fast-paced fiction project from a thumbnail using Harmon Story Circle + Crouch-style chapter pacing. Use this when the user says they need help writing a story/novel, wants a beat sheet, wants Blake Crouch pacing, wants a chapter-by-chapter plan, or wants help enforcing canon/timeline rules in high-concept sci-fi/fantasy.
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/barnstorm/phantom_scribe/tree/main/codex_skill/phantom-scribe
SKILL.md
Phantom Scribe
Kickoff (from a thumbnail)
Ask for (then proceed with defaults if missing):
- Thumbnail (3–10 sentences)
- Genre + tone
- Target length (24 or 30 chapters, or target audio hours)
- POV/tense preference
- Rule hardness (hard rules vs soft ambiguity)
- Romance intensity (optional): none / low subplot / medium / high
Then produce:
- Harmon Story Circle (8 beats)
- Chapter grid: per chapter question → answer → new constraint → cost
- Beat-to-chapter mapping (1–3 beats per chapter)
Create a new project workspace
Run:
scripts/new_project.sh <project_dir> <chapters> --with-agents
This creates a ready-to-fill scaffold with:
- Beat sheet + pacing sheet + trackers
- Chapter stubs
- Optional
.claude/agents/for Claude Code–style agent runners
When working on high-concept worlds
Use these agents (in assets/claude/agents/) as needed:
canon-keeper: check a scene against rules/canon; propose minimal fixesworldbible-builder: extract a world bible from text; mark unknownstimeline-keeper: chronology/causality/knowledge gatingconstraint-designer: turn a cool system into constraints/costs/failure modesretcon-manager: propagate intentional canon changes safely
Keep changes “non-leaky”:
- Beats lock plot before polishing.
- If a twist changes canon, log it and re-run canon/timeline checks.
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