character-management SKILL.md skillA
character-management 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/character-management@git:20261102.6098078Pins git:20261102.6098078 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/character-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 27
- Latest version
- git:20261102.6098078, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 12, 2026
- Size
- 16,419 bytes
- Repository stars
- 382
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a character", "update a character", "add a character", "build a family tree", "character relationships", "character timeline", "character arc", "character profile", "relationship graph", "name a character", or needs to manage characters in a story project. NOT for recording or checking character voices (use voice-style), rewriting dialogue so the voices differ (use line-editing), or a thematic arc's lie, truth, and arc type…
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
# Character Management
## Overview
Create and manage rich character profiles for a story project. Each character is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter in the `characters/` directory. Characters are cross-referenced with other story elements through kebab-case identifiers.
## Prerequisites
A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill). Verify by checking for `story.md` in the project root.
## Creating a Character
1. Read `story.md` for genre, themes, and tone context
2. Read `characters/_index.md` for existing characters
3. Ask for the character's name and role (protagonist, antagonist, supporting, minor, narrator, deuteragonist). Before settling the name, run `story names '{Name}'` (several candidates can be checked at once): it errors on an exact clash with any existing character, alias, location, faction, artifact, system, or glossary term, and warns about look-alikes and names sharing an initial with a major character. Invented names from a culture should follow its naming rules (see `references/naming-languages.md` in the `worldbuilding` skill)
4. Build the profile through conversation, exploring:
- Appearance and distinguishing features
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How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/character-management@sha256:80b9c033ba26042aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.6098078, 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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Source
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 382 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
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