| name | write-chapter |
| description | Draft the next chapter or a specified chapter from the accepted outline while preserving manuscript continuity, character knowledge, and established voice. |
Write Chapter
Use any chapter number or constraints supplied with the invocation.
- Resolve the repository root and run
./sync-state.sh --quiet.
- Determine the target chapter from the invocation, outline, and tracking state.
- Refuse to overwrite substantial existing prose unless the request clearly asks for revision.
- Read the relevant outline beat, previous chapter, directly relevant earlier chapters, character state, world state, and continuity notes.
- Read
.agents/roles/chapter-writer.md.
- If the harness exposes a named
chapter-writer specialist, delegate the complete bounded draft to it. Otherwise perform that role directly.
- Write the chapter to
manuscript/chapters/chapter-N.md, preserving repository formatting conventions.
- Run
automation/quality-check.sh manuscript/chapters/chapter-N.md for mechanical signals unless a lifecycle hook already did so.
- Run
./sync-state.sh.
- Report the file, approximate word count, story-state changes, continuity facts, and any downstream concern.
Prefer one coherent chapter over many disconnected scene fragments unless there is a concrete reason to split the work.
