character-truth

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

1. For each major character, identify: desire, fear, lie they tell themselves, protection, weakness.
2. Scan the chapter for any action/dialogue that contradicts the truth.
3. Rewrite moments to restore psychological credibility.
4. 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.