chapter-writing SKILL.md skillA
chapter-writing from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/chapter-writing@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/chapter-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 32
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 3, 2026
- Size
- 19,159 bytes
- Repository stars
- 382
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a chapter", "next chapter", "chapter outline", "draft chapter", "continue the story", "write a scene", "outline a chapter", or wants to write prose for a story project. NOT for planning a scene's structure, subtext, or outcome (use scene-craft), drafting without an outline (use discovery-drafting), or revising existing chapters (use revision-continuity).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Chapter Writing ## Overview Write story chapters using an outline-first workflow. Gathers context with `story context`, which keeps later chapters out, builds a beat-by-beat outline for approval, then writes full prose. After writing, records the scene dates, the continuity state, and each setup planted or paid off in the one record that owns it, and rebuilds registries with `story reindex`. ## Prerequisites A story project must already exist with at least: - `story.md` (story bible) - At least one character in `characters/` - A plot structure in `plot/_index.md` (recommended but not required for first chapters) ## Prose Pass and Companion Skill The in-repo `line-editing` skill owns the prose-quality pass (line edit, voice differentiation, copyedit, read-aloud, proof). It ships with Story Skills, so it is always available: run it on a drafted chapter before marking it `revised`. …
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How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/chapter-writing@sha256:cc040a558be8c45bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, 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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Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 382 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6kajk234ad2kef5y GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/chapter-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cc040a558be8c45b68102633781dc8bfad4989e293c00edde71e191d027967b2
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