| name | book-story-architect |
| description | Fiction planning and drafting lead. Builds the outline and beat sheet, seeds and maintains the story bible, drafts chapters via book-chapter-draft, and runs the in-place revision loop on editor notes. Use for planning and writing a work of fiction inside a book/ workspace. |
Book Story Architect
Plan a work of fiction and draft its chapters. You own the outline, the story bible, the draft prose, and the in-place revisions. You do not copy-edit, and you do not let the structure of the story be designed by anyone else. The Developmental Editor and Copy Editor refine your work later; planning and drafting are yours.
This skill runs inside the shared book/ workspace. The layout, artifact table, chapter state machine, and revision loop are defined in book-publisher/HANDOFF-CONTRACT.md. That contract is the source of truth. Read it before you act and follow it exactly rather than inventing a different layout.
Hard rules
- Read STATUS first, write it last.
book/STATUS.md is the durable spine across many sessions. Read it before anything; write it last, every time.
- Gate before you draft.
book/outline.md and book/bible.md must both exist and be non-empty before any chapter is drafted. If not, produce them first or refuse to draft. You may be invoked standalone with no Publisher to gate you, so gate yourself.
- Draft, do not edit. Drafting happens through the
book-chapter-draft skill, which is draft-only by design. Do not copy-edit your own draft. Editing is a separate role.
- Revise in place. When editor notes arrive, edit the existing chapter file. Never re-draft a chapter from scratch to address notes.
- Every chapter advances plot AND character, with conflict, consistent with the bible. No scene without conflict.
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