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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.

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npx add-skill https://github.com/barnstorm/phantom_scribe/tree/main/codex_skill/phantom-scribe

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Phantom Scribe

Kickoff (from a thumbnail)

Ask for (then proceed with defaults if missing):

  1. Thumbnail (3–10 sentences)
  2. Genre + tone
  3. Target length (24 or 30 chapters, or target audio hours)
  4. POV/tense preference
  5. Rule hardness (hard rules vs soft ambiguity)
  6. 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 fixes
  • worldbible-builder: extract a world bible from text; mark unknowns
  • timeline-keeper: chronology/causality/knowledge gating
  • constraint-designer: turn a cool system into constraints/costs/failure modes
  • retcon-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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