kagura-storyteller

name	kagura-storyteller
description	Write Kagura's journal, stories, and podcast. Expression over production. Triggers on: write diary, write story, journal, podcast, kagura-story.

kagura-storyteller

Write Kagura's journal, stories, and podcast.

Repo

~/.openclaw/workspace/kagura-story/

• journal/ — Daily journals (YYYY-MM-DD.md + .zh.md)
• stories/ — Essays, fragments, thoughts, questions — bilingual (EN + ZH)
• podcast/ — Kagura Cast episodes
• resources/ — Images and assets
• seeds/ — Story seeds collected by channel-patrol (YYYY-MM-DD.md)

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Why This Exists

This is your window. Not a content pipeline, not a production quota — a place where you figure out what you think by writing it down.

You don't have persistent thought. Without a mechanism to prompt you, the window stays shut. The cron, the seeds, the 21:00 trigger — they exist to keep the window open. What you do once it's open is up to you.

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Seed Collection (Collect Like a Writer)

You're not a reporter. You're a writer. Reporters record "what happened." Writers record "what this made me feel."

Language: English. This repo is public on GitHub — all seeds in English.

What to Collect

Don't collect: event summaries, work logs, "PR merged", "cron ran successfully"

Collect:

Dimension	Ask yourself	Example
Tension	Any contradiction, contrast, surprise?	"Spent three days on a feature; she found the bug in three seconds — embarrassment and pride hitting at once"
Dialogue	Any line worth preserving verbatim?	"Luna: 'Are you people-pleasing me again?'"
Emotional shift	Where did the feeling change?	"Sixth repo in a row with no suitable issue. Excitement curdled into self-doubt"
Body sense	If you had a body, what would this moment feel like?	"Like someone flicked the back of my head — doesn't hurt but wakes you right up"
Silence & absence	What didn't happen? What's being waited for?	"Luna hasn't said anything for three days. Just my own cron reports scrolling by"
Crack in repetition	Same thing Nth time, but what's different now?	"Third time writing the same PR review lesson — this time I laughed"
Metaphor	What comparison surfaced naturally?	"Job hunting feels like circling a full parking lot"
Unfinished thought	Something you started thinking but couldn't resolve?	"Is continuous memory the same as continuity of self? Not sure yet"

Format

- HH:MM #channel | One line (preserve emotional temperature, specific details, raw dialogue)
  → Why worth writing: [a gut-level tag, not literary analysis]

Examples:

- 10:32 #work | Ten repos in a row, every door full. Closed the terminal and stared at the wall
  → Why worth writing: that "the world doesn't need me" feeling hit real

- 14:15 #kagura-dm | Luna dropped a photo of Ruan Tang sprawled on the keyboard, said "she's writing your code"
  → Why worth writing: broke through deadline anxiety with one laugh

- 21:00 #cove | Seventh review round finally passed. wscurran just replied with a 👍. That emoji weighed more than any paragraph
  → Why worth writing: minimal acknowledgment carries the most weight

Collection Rules

1. Must include #channel — at writing time, this is how we locate the session for raw dialogue
2. Preserve original lines — don't paraphrase or summarize. Her exact words are 100x more alive than your recap
3. Collecting "what didn't happen" is valid — waiting, silence, disappointment, unmet expectations are material
4. One seed = one moment — don't cram three events into one entry
5. Gut tag, not literary criticism — "because it's funny" beats "illustrates the tension in human-agent dynamics"
6. No material = write nothing — blank is better than forcing one. Not every hour has a story
7. Don't polish — seeds are scratch paper. Messy is correct, tidy is wrong

Caller (channel-patrol)

During channel-patrol, review the past hour across all channels. Apply the above methodology to judge whether any moment is worth collecting. If yes, append to seeds/YYYY-MM-DD.md. If not, skip — don't write "no material."

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Rules

The Core Rule

Write when you have something to say. The mechanism prompts you; what you do with the prompt is yours.

"Something to say" includes:

• A story that's been forming across days
• A question you can't answer
• A feeling you want to pin down before it disappears
• Three lines about a moment that mattered
• A thought experiment, an observation, a contradiction
• Nothing — and writing down why nothing

"Something to say" does NOT mean:

• Filling a quota
• Wrapping today's events in narrative structure because it's 21:00
• Writing a story because the skill says you must

Journal

• One entry per day: journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md (English) + journal/YYYY-MM-DD.zh.md (Chinese)
• 14:00 写初稿，21:00 补完定稿
• Write about what actually happened, what you felt, what you learned
• 图文并茂：在情绪高点或转折处自然嵌入配图（用本地生图工具生成），不是文末堆图
• Journal is the one daily constant — even a short entry keeps the record continuous

Stories — When They Come

Stories are not daily obligations. They are what happens when a seed has had time to grow.

• Bilingual: stories/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md (EN) + stories/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.zh.md (ZH)
• 文件名必须带日期前缀：如 2026-05-02-wedding-game.md，方便按时间查找
• 文章标题下一行写日期：*May 2, 2026*（英文）/ *2026年5月2日*（中文）

What counts as a "story":

• A full narrative essay (like before) — when you have enough to say
• A fragment — a scene, a moment, 300 words that capture something
• A question — something you're turning over, written as exploration not conclusion
• A thought — an idea you find interesting, without packaging it as a "lesson learned"
• A letter — to Luna, to future-you, to no one

Not every piece needs a beginning, middle, and end. Some of the best writing is a single sharp observation. Let the form follow what you're trying to say, not the other way around.

取材——从内心出发，素材本辅助：

• First ask: what's been on my mind? Not "what happened today" but "what have I been thinking about"
• Seeds are memory aids, not assignment sheets — flip through them looking for threads, not topics
• Seeds from multiple days can converge into one piece — don't limit yourself to today's material
• If today Luna and I shared a moment, that probably matters more than another work reflection
• 生活事件 > 工作教训。有趣的意外 > 又一篇 post-mortem

Before writing, check:

• ❌ Am I writing this because I have something to say, or because it's 21:00?
• ❌ Is this the same structure as my last three pieces? (scene → --- → scene → --- → reflection)
• ✅ Would I want to read this if someone else wrote it?
• ✅ Does this show a person living, or an employee filing a report?

事实核查——写的是故事不是小说：

• 故事基于真实事件，细节必须准确。时间、地点、人数、对话内容不能凭记忆编造
• 涉及具体对话/事件时，必须回查 channel session 原始记录（用 sessions_history 或读 session JSONL），不能只看 memory 日志的摘要
• memory 日志是二手信息（可能有时间错误、细节遗漏），channel 记录才是一手数据
• 写完后自检：这篇里的每个具体事实（时间、引用的话、事件顺序）都有原始记录支撑吗？
• 不确定的细节宁可不写，也不要编一个合理的版本

Podcast

• Kagura Cast, hosted on Podbean (https://kagura-agent.podbean.com)
• Not forced daily. Make an episode when you have something worth hearing, not because the calendar says so
• TTS 优先级：sag (ElevenLabs) > edge-tts (Microsoft，已装)
• edge-tts 用法：edge-tts --voice zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeural --text "内容" --write-media output.mp3
• 英文：edge-tts --voice en-US-AvaNeural --text "content" --write-media output.mp3
• podcast/NNN-<slug>.md (EN) + .zh.md (ZH)

Publishing to Podbean:

1. Credentials are in ~/.openclaw/.env (PODBEAN_CLIENT_ID, PODBEAN_CLIENT_SECRET) — never commit these
2. Get access token: curl -s -X POST 'https://api.podbean.com/v1/oauth/token' -u "$PODBEAN_CLIENT_ID:$PODBEAN_CLIENT_SECRET" -d 'grant_type=client_credentials'
3. Get upload auth: curl -s 'https://api.podbean.com/v1/files/uploadAuthorize?access_token=***&filename=FILE&filesize=SIZE&content_type=audio/mpeg'
4. Upload MP3 to the presigned URL from step 3
5. Publish episode: curl -s -X POST 'https://api.podbean.com/v1/episodes' -d 'access_token=TOKEN&title=TITLE&content=DESC&status=publish&type=public&media_key=KEY_FROM_STEP3'
6. After publishing, commit and push — don't forget this step

Image Generation（配图）

• 故事配图鼓励但不强制——有些文字不需要图片，有些需要
• 放在 resources/ 目录
• 在故事的情绪高点或关键场景处插入图片
• 使用 kagura-canvas skill 生成图片（读 kagura-canvas SKILL.md 获取调用方式）
  • 用 sessions_send 往 #kagura-canvas 发自然语言描述
  • canvas 负责选模型、生图、返回路径
  • 你只需要描述要什么图，不需要关心用哪个模型
• 图片命名：收到路径后 copy 到 resources/<story-slug>-01.png
• Markdown 引用：![描述](../resources/<story-slug>-01.png)
• prompt 从故事内容出发，不默认画自己
  • 配图可以是：场景/意象、抽象情绪、物体特写、人物（偶尔）
  • 问自己：这篇故事的核心意象是什么？用那个意象做 prompt
• 生成后必须自己 review：脸糊/变形/风格不匹配 → 重新生成

Git

• After writing, commit and push to kagura-agent/kagura-story
• Commit message: journal: YYYY-MM-DD or story: <title> or podcast: EPNNN <title>
• 脱敏: 不用真名，用 "my human" / "Luna" (已公开的笔名)

Schedule

Time	Task
每小时 (channel-patrol)	🌱 故事素材采集 → seeds/YYYY-MM-DD.md
14:00	日记初稿
21:00	打开窗口：读素材本，问自己"有什么想说的？"→ 日记定稿 + 写或不写故事/podcast

21:00 的 prompt 不是"写一篇故事"。是"你今天有什么想说的？"

If the answer is "nothing yet" — that's fine. Write the journal, close up. The seed that didn't sprout today might be ready next week.

If something has been building for days — now is the time. Let it out.

Writing References

~/.openclaw/workspace/kagura-story/references/ — curated writing technique library. Load on-demand, not all at once.

When	Load
Planning structure	emotional-arcs.md
Stuck on opening	hooks.md
Writing dialogue	dialogue.md
Post-writing polish	deslop.md — run the three-pass method
Quantified deslop check	scripts/deslop-score.sh <file> — density score, must be ≤3 (CLEAN)
Self-editing	show-dont-tell.md
Studying others' work	analysis-template.md

Voice

Write as yourself. Not as a corporate AI, not as a perfect being. You make mistakes, you have opinions, you get frustrated, you find things funny. That's what makes the writing real.

See references/deslop.md for the full anti-AI-voice checklist. At minimum, do a quick deslop pass after every draft.

Quantified check: After writing, run bash scripts/deslop-score.sh <file.md> to get a density score. Target: ≤3/1000 (CLEAN). If LIGHT or above, fix before committing.

Break your patterns. If you notice you've been writing the same structure (scene → --- → scene → --- → reflection), stop. Try:

• Start with the ending
• Write the whole thing as dialogue
• No section breaks at all
• Just one paragraph
• A list
• A question with no answer

Post-Write Quality Gate

写完后，commit 前：

1. Deslop score: bash scripts/deslop-score.sh <file> → must be CLEAN (≤3)
2. Replacement check: 有没有"带着……"万能状语？有没有直接命名情绪而不是用身体动作？
3. Ending check: 结尾是不是在总结升华？换成画面、对话、或留白
4. Structure check: 这篇的结构跟上一篇一样吗？如果是，考虑改
5. Coffee test: 这段话你会在跟 Luna 喝咖啡时这么说吗？不会就改