discovery-drafting SKILL.md skillA
discovery-drafting 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/discovery-drafting@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/discovery-drafting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 15
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 8,294 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "dead end", "drafting sprint", "writing cadence", or wants to draft a story by discovery with retrospective bible reconciliation. NOT for outline-first drafting, or mysteries and other clue-dependent genres where setup must come before payoff (use chapter-writing), or a reverse outline of an existing…
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What the file says
# Discovery Drafting
## Overview
Draft by discovery ("pantsing"): start from a one-paragraph story kernel
rather than a beat sheet, write forward, then reconcile each chapter back
into the story bible through a structured loop (extract entities → reverse
outline → diff against the bible → reconcile). This is the complement to
chapter-writing's outline-first workflow. The bible is maintained *after*
the prose, not before — which the repo's import-style entity extraction and
continuity checks already support.
## Prerequisites
A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill), with
at least a `story.md` and one character. No plot structure is required to
start — arcs get built during reconciliation.
## When to Use
- The user wants to draft without outlining first, or identifies as a
discovery writer
- Starting a project from a situation/character rather than a plot
- NOT for mysteries or other clue-dependent genres where setup must precede
payoff (use chapter-writing; see `genre-craft`)
- NOT for revising existing chapters, including a reverse outline of an
existing linear draft or cutting a subplot as a revision pass (use `revision-continuity`).
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/discovery-drafting@sha256:27f327afe850f46dThe 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 8,294 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.b04dddd | 2026-10-08 | b04dddd | 8,153 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.e4d13e3 | 2026-10-08 | e4d13e3 | 8,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.a8b3f01 | 2026-10-07 | a8b3f01 | 8,110 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20261002.880a47b | 2026-10-02 | 880a47b | 6,467 B | A | view · diff |
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| git:20260920.5444aa3 | 2026-09-20 | 5444aa3 | 5,493 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8294 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- 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 · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
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