القائمة
Use before designing, deepening, or offering options for a character, using desire, fear, false belief, and the common root of strength and damage.
التثبيت باستخدام Codex أو Claude انسخ هذا Prompt والصقه في Codex أو Claude أو مساعد آخر ليراجع صفحة Skill ويثبّتها لك.
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Use this skill for requests related to web research; it provides a structured approach to conducting comprehensive web research
Load when the MainAgent is assembling a comparison report across multiple narrative-direction explorations (results from parallel/sequential task(explorer) calls). Use to compare directions along narrative, character, cost, and reader-promise dimensions. "Branches" here means narrative branches — this is NOT a git branch tool.
Plan and track a character's long-term transformation arc, ensuring each action reflects their current stage of change.
Check physical, social, and psychological plausibility in fiction scenes.
Load when WriterAgent finishes a chapter draft or is planning a chapter that should set up later payoffs. Use to embed plant-able details (objects, gestures, line drops) for ch+2 or later, and to verify earlier plants get acknowledged. Skip for the very first chapter (no prior plants exist) and for pure dialogue scenes with no narrative scaffolding.
Plan or draft scenes where rhythm, tension, and momentum matter by balancing escalation and release.
| name | character-complexity |
| description | Use before designing, deepening, or offering options for a character, using desire, fear, false belief, and the common root of strength and damage. |
Read this skill before designing, deepening, or offering options for a character.
Desire — what the character consciously wants. Fear — what they cannot face losing or becoming. False belief — the assumption about themselves or the world that keeps them trapped.
These three do not coexist peacefully. The character's desire pulls against their fear, and their false belief shapes the strategy they use to avoid confronting both. A flat character has desire without fear, or fear without belief. A complex character is their own primary obstacle.
A character's greatest strength and their most damaging quality usually originate from the same place. The person who excels at surviving alone is the same person who cannot let others in. The person who fights for justice cannot tolerate ambiguity in situations that require it. This is not contradiction—it is structural coherence. The reader should be able to see both simultaneously.
Surface: what the character says they want. Middle: what they actually want. Deep: what they need but cannot acknowledge wanting.
Characters rarely have access to their own deep motivation. They act from the surface and middle while the deep layer drives the actual behavior. When the deep motivation surfaces under pressure, it should feel inevitable and surprising at once.
The dark side of a character is not villainy. It is a recognizable human weakness: the capacity for self-deception, for cruelty in the name of love, for sacrificing others to preserve a self-image, for choosing comfort over integrity. Readers recognize this because they have felt it themselves.
