novelist

Create character source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to invent, refine, name, or save a fictional character into characters/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter, especially from role, personality, setting, era, region, language, relationships, motives, secrets, or plot function.

Create story material source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to generate, refine, or save raw novel material such as motifs, objects, scene seeds, dialogue seeds, research notes, themes, images, conflicts, clues, or reusable ideas into materials/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

Create whole-novel plot and plot-thread source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to generate, refine, structure, or save a central plot, act structure, promise, pressure, reversals, turns, reveals, or payoffs into plot/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

Create whole-novel setting and worldbuilding source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to generate, refine, or save a novel setting, era, region, social order, locations, rules, atmosphere, constraints, or continuity facts into world/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

Design and control whole-novel storytelling, reader mental-model progression, chapter-to-chapter flow, conflict escalation and resolution, reveals, foreshadowing, continuity, safe chapter-file creation, and next-chapter handoffs for this Markdown novel repository. Use when planning, drafting, or revising story structure, modeling what a target reader knows, infers, misreads, or still asks at each story turn, auditing cohesion or reader orientation, preparing or writing the next chapter from prior context, creating a template-conformant chapter under chapters/, checking contradictions, maintaining story-state summaries, selecting genre-specific narrative devices, or auditing character, timeline, world-rule, clue, MacGuffin, and plot-thread continuity.

Publish this Markdown novel project as a validated EPUB using the skill's bundled packaging script. Use when the author asks to publish, export, build, regenerate, package, or validate the novel or EPUB; when checking publication metadata, chapter readiness, covers, illustrations, generated output, or EPUB integrity; or when coordinating a missing cover before publication.

Initialize a safe, self-contained Markdown novel workspace from the Novelist plugin scaffold. Use when the user wants to start, scaffold, bootstrap, or create a new novel project with source directories, templates, continuity rules, visual guidance, and EPUB output conventions.

Create cover and illustration image assets for this novel project using the built-in image generation workflow. Use when the user wants to plan, generate, refine, or save a book cover, chapter illustration, spot illustration, visual motif, or image prompt while preserving a consistent visual style across assets.