book-writer SKILL.md skillA
book-writer from travsteward/openwriter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add travsteward/openwriter/book-writer@v0.3.0Pins v0.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- travsteward/openwriter
- Path
skills/book-writer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.3.0, committed Jul 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 23, 2026
- Size
- 15,255 bytes
- Repository stars
- 36
- License
- MIT
Orchestration skill for book-scale long-form writing (fiction or nonfiction). Owns the SHAPE of a book project — chapter architecture, beats methodology, workspace management, book mode, scene/science split, vignette library, long-form orchestration. Delegates VOICE (prose generation) to /authors-voice via the Apply Protocol minion dispatch. Loads as governing context at session start when a book project is detected, OR via explicit invocation. Use when: "/book-writer", "/book…
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
# Book Writer Book-scale orchestration skill. Pairs with `/authors-voice` (voice pipeline). Together: this skill specifies WHAT must land in each beat; `/authors-voice` specifies HOW the prose sounds. ## FIRM RULES ### 0. Author owns substance. The agent QUERIES — it does not propose from cold. The load-bearing rule. It governs every book-start, not just beat work, and it is stated here (not only in `docs/beats.md`) so it is in context the moment any book begins. **Author owns substance + beat material; the agent owns process + shape.** On ANY book-start intent — "write a book", "start writing it", "start a book project", "draft a chapter" — the substance comes OUT of the author before any beats or prose exist. The default is to QUERY, never to manufacture: - **Every book (and every chapter) begins with the author DUMP** (`docs/beats.md` → 5-pass, Pass 1): the author brain-dumps the material; the agent captures it verbatim, then structures it. No beats, no chapter shape, and no prose exist before the author has dumped. …
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How to install
mdr add travsteward/openwriter/book-writer@sha256:cbf1192cb887d88dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0, 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 2 versions of this file, between May 23, 2026 and Jul 9, 2026, about one every 47 days.
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| v0.3.0 latest | 2026-07-09 | 1497581 | 15,255 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.2 | 2026-05-23 | eaa2510 | 13,058 B | A | view |
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Source
travsteward/openwriter · 36 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gmdeevcnajm2abc3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=travsteward/openwriter/book-writer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cbf1192cb887d88dccc827b45b0e357919318393e31732a93d9935e80db58a30
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