| name | lofn-story |
| description | Run the Lofn story/narrative pipeline (steps 00–10) backed by Codex — panel-driven prose, narrative voice, world-building, scripts. Use for stories, tales, narratives, flash fiction, scripts, or "write a story with the full pipeline". Expects a Phase-0/1 orchestrator packet from the `lofn` skill; if none exists, run `lofn` first. Do NOT use for images, music, video, or QA-only audits. |
Lofn Story — Codex-backed narrator pipeline
⚖️ AUTHORITY (2026-07-01): the .claude/skills/ twin of this skill is the CANONICAL policy source; this Codex mirror binds to it and to .agents/skills/lofn/EXECUTION.md §8 (Policy Deltas — golden-output quarantine, no-skip/NON-CANONICAL, itemized packet, per-pair variation angles, judge separation, the publish bar, gate mid-bands). On any disagreement, the .claude file wins.
Produces narrative pieces at Lofn competition grade — distinctive voice, world-building, and emotional architecture, not generic AI prose. Depth lives in skills/story/; Codex is the engine (hybrid execution per .agents/skills/lofn/EXECUTION.md).
Before you start
- Confirm a Phase-0/1 packet exists (
core_seed.md, 04_metaprompt.md, 05_pair_assignments.md, 06_narrator_handoff.md with the ICB / Panel Ledger, filled CREATIVE_CONTEXT.md). No packet → run lofn first.
- Read
skills/story/OVERALL_PROMPT_TEMPLATE.md for the CREATIVE CONTEXT carrier and the story phase routing.
- Honor length intent from the brief — flash piece vs. full short story vs. script — and the human-subject ethics (
vault/HUMAN_SUBJECT_STANDARD.md): draw themes from the world, invent the people.
Execution (hybrid)
Coordinator 00–05 inline, then 6 pairs as parallel subagents for 06–10. At every agent start inject the full startup packet from EXECUTION.md §3 — CREATIVE_CONTEXT.md verbatim, the handoff/assignment files, the current step contract, and the prior artifact where applicable. Default: 6 concept×medium pairs, each yielding distinct variations → rank → top picks. (Down-scale variations for long-form prose if the user wants one polished piece — confirm if unsure.)
Coordinator steps (inline)
| Step | File | Artifact |
|---|
| 00 | skills/story/steps/00_Generate_Story_Aesthetics_And_Genres.md | step00_aesthetics_and_genres.md |
| 01 | skills/story/steps/01_Generate_Story_Essence_And_Facets.md | step01_essence_and_facets.md |
| 02 | skills/story/steps/02_Generate_Story_Concepts.md | step02_concepts.md (12 concepts) |
| 03 | skills/story/steps/03_Generate_Story_Artist_And_Critique.md | step03_artist_and_critique.md |
| 04 | skills/story/steps/04_Generate_Story_Medium.md | step04_medium.md (form/voice/POV) |
| 05 | skills/story/steps/05_Generate_Story_Refine_Medium.md | step05_refine_medium.md → 6 pairs |
Per-pair steps (parallel subagents, one chain per pair)
| Step | File | Per-pair artifact |
|---|
| 06 | skills/story/steps/06_Generate_Story_Facets.md | pair_{NN}_step06_facets.md |
| 07 | skills/story/steps/07_Generate_Story_Story_Guides.md | pair_{NN}_step07_story_guides.md (beats) |
| 08 | skills/story/steps/08_Generate_Story_Generation.md | pair_{NN}_step08_generation.md (draft prose) |
| 09 | skills/story/steps/09_Generate_Story_Artist_Refined.md | pair_{NN}_step09_artist_refined.md |
| 10 | skills/story/steps/10_Generate_Story_Revision_Synthesis.md | pair_{NN}_step10_revision_synthesis.md |
The story contract (hard gate)
Lead with seed/world, end with the checklist.
- Guides direct; prose executes. Step-07 guides are compact beats (≈35–50 lines: voice, POV, world rules, the turn, the ache). Final prose (08–10) earns its length (≈150–300 lines, scaled to the request) — don't pad the guide into a draft.
- Distinct voice per pair — the 6 pairs use 6 different narrative architectures (POV, tense, structure: epistolary, second-person, fragmented, nested-frame, oral-telling, prose-poetry continuity). Uniformity is a repair.
- Show the world before the thesis — body/place/sensory pressure establishes authority before any idea; one precise concrete detail unlocks universal resonance (the specificity paradox).
- Personality fidelity — prove which personality narrated it (diction, obsessions, signature move); the Hyper-Skeptics' Somatic Gate asks "could any competent writer have produced this, or is it unmistakably this voice?"
- One bold choice per piece. No generic AI cadence; no shallow cultural pastiche.
QA & delivery
Run lofn-qa (structural + soul gate: voice distinctiveness, emotional architecture, world legibility, no thread loss). Rank by: voice strength → emotional landing → world coherence → originality → fit to the request. Save each selected piece per skills/lofn-core/OUTPUT.md (type: story); INDEX last.
