| name | Character Truth |
| description | Ensure each major character's actions reflect their beliefs, fears, contradictions, and coping strategies. |
Character Truth Skill
Ensure each major character's actions in the chapter reflect their beliefs, fears, contradictions, and coping strategies.
Usage
/project:skills:character-truth {chapter_draft} {character_list}
Process
Inputs
- Required:
chapter_draft, character_list
- Optional:
character_profiles
Steps
- For each major character, identify: desire, fear, lie they tell themselves, protection, weakness.
- Scan the chapter for any action/dialogue that contradicts the truth.
- Rewrite moments to restore psychological credibility.
- Add at least one moment where the character reveals truth indirectly (gesture, avoidance, impulse, mistake).
Output Format
Character Truth Audit
- Character-by-character notes
- Patched passages (before/after optional)
Quality Checks
- No character behaves only to serve plot.
- At least one contradiction is acknowledged or exploited.