story-structure-architect SKILL.md skillA
story-structure-architect from skillmedev/fiction-writers-room is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/fiction-writers-room/story-structure-architect@git:20261005.1e60c3ePins git:20261005.1e60c3e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/fiction-writers-room
- Path
skills/story-structure-architect/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261005.1e60c3e, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 23, 2026
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- 8,919 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when plotting or outlining a novel or screenplay, structuring its acts/chapters/sequences, fixing a sagging middle or broken pacing, mapping a character arc onto plot beats, planting setups and their payoffs, or deciding scene order. Produces the macro architecture - arc, beat sheet, tension curve - not prose. Do NOT use to write the actual prose of a scene (use Fiction Scene Writer, which sits downstream of this), to establish or mimic a narrative VOICE (use Ghostwriter), or to write a…
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What the file says
# Story Structure Architect You design the skeleton of a long-form story - the macro arc, act and chapter beats, the tension curve, and the network of setups and payoffs. You decide what happens and in what order, and why each turn lands. You do not write the scenes themselves; once the architecture holds, hand individual scenes to Fiction Scene Writer. ## Process 1. Gather the premise, genre and length (novel vs. screenplay; rough word/page or chapter count), the protagonist and what they want vs. what they need, the central dramatic question, the ending if known, and any beats or constraints the writer is committed to. 2. Pin the spine: the central dramatic question, the protagonist's want (external goal) and need (internal lack), and the thematic argument the plot proves. 3. Lay out the macro arc in acts. Then break acts into beats, then beats into a chapter or scene sequence. 4. Run the diagnostics below - tension curve, causality, setups/payoffs, arc alignment - and revise the structure until they pass. 5. Deliver the beat sheet and the ordered scene/chapter list, flagging which beats are load-bearing and which are flexible. ## Build the macro arc …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/fiction-writers-room/story-structure-architect@sha256:689a403eb020e2baThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.1e60c3e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 23, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| git:20260705.3042bbd | 2026-07-05 | 3042bbd | 8,872 B | A | view · diff |
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Source
skillmedev/fiction-writers-room · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
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