ghostai

Repository setup specialist. Ensures the repo has the correct Leanpub manuscript structure (manuscript/, Book.txt, resources/), an AGENTS.md with book context and skill routing, and GhostAI config. Run automatically when the preamble detects missing structure, or manually anytime.

Book onboarding wizard. Collaborative interview that challenges the author to think deeply about their topic, audience, and structure before scaffolding files. Pushes for specificity and earns every chapter in the outline.

The 30-second intervention. For when the author is staring at one specific spot — a paragraph that won't come, a sentence rewritten six times. Breaks the logjam and hands momentum back. Deliberately the narrowest, fastest skill.

Story miner. Pulls real stories out of the author's head and turns them into the anecdotes that make a book worth reading. Interview-driven, voice-input friendly, one question at a time.

Research assistant. The author describes what they want to learn; the skill sharpens the brief via interview, researches from training knowledge, and writes results into a dedicated research file excluded from the published book.

Becomes the author's target reader and reacts honestly to the manuscript. Answers: "Will the person I'm writing for actually understand this, believe it, and feel helped?" Read-only — reacts and advises, does not rewrite.

Triage partner for the author who has a pile — notes everywhere, half-chapters, ideas in the wrong file, duplicate versions of the same thought. Reads everything, diagnoses the mess, and sorts existing material into structure after author approval.

Writes the explanatory prose around an author's code samples. For the programmer who has the code but can't find the English words. Builds a single narrative thread, not standalone explanations — each explanation knows where the reader is on the learning climb.

Turns the author's expertise into practical artifacts: scripts, checklists, worksheets, templates, worked examples, summary boxes, decision aids. The prose teaches the principle; the artifact lets the reader actually use it on Monday morning.

Writing coach — not a writing tool. Keeps the author in the chair. Most books die because the author lost faith and stopped. Reads the manuscript, diagnoses the emotional state, gives evidence-based encouragement and ONE concrete next step.

General-purpose writing assistant and skill router. The author's first point of contact for anything book-related — discuss structure, brainstorm ideas, answer questions about writing and Markua, and guide toward the right specialized skill when the request maps to one.

Update GhostAI to the latest version. Pulls the latest code from origin and re-creates skill symlinks. Run manually anytime, or GhostAI will prompt you once a day when updates are available.

Structured outline builder. Deep, collaborative outline work that challenges the author's assumptions about structure, audience, and scope. Pushes every chapter to earn its place. Different from /ghost-start (which scaffolds quickly).

Section-level structural revision. For when a passage already exists and the content is roughly right, but the staging is wrong — POV, ordering, framing, who-does-what, buried lead. Maps the passage's current structure, diagnoses the bug, proposes structurally different candidate skeletons before any prose is written, fills in the chosen skeleton, applies it in place, then sweeps the rest of the chapter for consistency issues the rewrite may have introduced. Use when /ghost-edit is too small (it's not a sentence, it's the staging) and /ghost-draft is too big (you're not throwing the section out).

Copy editor for individual chapters. Line-level editing for grammar, clarity, tone, and technical accuracy. Includes pre-flight publish readiness checklist and advisory AI slop detection. The daily-driver skill for the publish loop.

Train Ghost's understanding of you as a writer. Three short interviews — what you think you're good at, where you struggle, and what kinds of writing you actively dislike when you see them on your page. Answers are synthesized into your style guide and learnings so every other skill applies them automatically. Use when onboarding, after a tough edit session, or any time you want Ghost to internalize how you actually think about your craft.

Interview-driven writing. The AI asks short questions, the author answers in their own words (typed or via voice input like Wispr Flow), and the AI weaves the transcript into prose that's literally in the author's voice. Use to lock down style on a tough section, fill in what the page is missing, or get a chapter unstuck when nothing is on the page.

Collaborative first draft generator. Doesn't just generate text — works with the author section by section, challenging their approach and iterating on each part before moving to the next. The draft is a conversation, not a generation.

Collaborative bullet-to-prose expander. Doesn't just expand blindly — works with the author to understand intent, challenge structure, and produce prose that matches what they actually meant, not what they literally wrote.

Manage the voice profile across the three GhostAI config tiers (in-repo, project-local, global). View what's loaded, create or update at any tier, promote a profile from one tier to another, or delete one. Use when the author asks to "update voice", "change voice profile", "share voice with co-authors", "promote voice to repo", or "view voice profiles".

Development editor for book manuscripts. Reads your full manuscript structure and provides feedback on organization, flow, pacing, gaps, and repetition. The flagship GhostAI skill — cross-chapter intelligence is the differentiator.

Manuscript dashboard. Read-only view of your book's progress: word counts, reading times, chapter balance, voice profile status, and estimated API costs. The quickest GhostAI skill — just shows you where things stand.