discovery-drafting skillA
discovery-drafting is agent-read markdown (skill) from danjdewhurst/story-skills: This skill should be used when the user asks to "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a chapter", "reverse outline", "cut a subplot", "dead end", "drafting sprint", "writing cadence", or wants to draft a story by discovery with retrospective bible reconciliation..
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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 (use `revision-continuity`)
- The user can switch modes per project or per chapter; record the mode so
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How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/discovery-drafting@git:20260922.0a6f7c9mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/discovery-drafting@sha256:95f49d8b5888fa69Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260922.0a6f7c9 latest | 2026-09-22 | 0a6f7c9 | 5,605 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.d40681a | 2026-09-22 | d40681a | 5,651 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.f646308 | 2026-09-20 | f646308 | 5,533 B | A | view · diff |
| 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 (5605 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 · 242 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_frplhjv3m346qouw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/discovery-drafting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/95f49d8b5888fa6916e2a38fc3ed129fad4f025f489ced1021db64fb8913e2c5
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