zenstory SKILL.md skillA

zenstory from zenstory-ai/zenstory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add zenstory-ai/zenstory/zenstory@v0.2.0

Pins v0.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: zenstory-ai/zenstory
Path: apps/cli/skill/zenstory/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: v0.2.0, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 27, 2026
Size: 9,910 bytes
Repository stars: 76
License: MIT

Reads, writes and organizes the user's novel projects stored in ZenStory (chapters/drafts, outlines, character profiles, lore/world-building, materials) through the ZenStory CLI and its Agent API. Use when the user mentions ZenStory, refers to their novel or story project kept in ZenStory, or asks to read, continue, draft, revise, or reorganize chapters, outlines, characters or settings stored there, or to check continuity across a ZenStory project (e.g. "continue chapter 12 in ZenStory…

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

# ZenStory

ZenStory is an AI-assisted novel writing workbench. Projects hold outlines, draft
chapters, characters, lore and materials as **files** in a folder tree. Use this skill
to read and update those files through the `zenstory` CLI and public Agent API.

## Running the CLI

Use `zenstory ...` if it is installed (`command -v zenstory`). Otherwise use
`npx -y zenstory ...` with exactly the same arguments. Examples below use `zenstory`.

Always add `--json` when you need to parse output. Errors go to stderr; the exit code tells
you what happened: `0` ok, `2` usage error, `3` auth/permission, `4` not found,
`5` rate limited, `1` anything else.

## Setup check (do this first, once per session)

```bash
zenstory whoami --json
```

- Exit `0`: note `scopes.read` / `scopes.write`. Without `write`, you can only read — tell
  the user before planning edits.
- Exit `3` ("Not logged in" / key rejected): ask the user to create an Agent API key in
  **ZenStory → Settings → Agent** (enable the `write` scope if they want you to edit), then
  run this **themselves** in their own terminal and paste the key when prompted (input is
  hidden, so the key stays out of shell history):

  ```bash
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add zenstory-ai/zenstory/zenstory@sha256:68e61b23870e1bbc

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.0, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_hyt6x7hjzylecorw.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hyt6x7hjzylecorw)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 27, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 4 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v0.2.0 latest	2026-10-15	681fdaf	9,910 B	A	view · diff
v0.2.0	2026-10-12	920065d	9,819 B	A	view · diff
v0.2.0	2026-10-09	034f2eb	9,846 B	A	view · diff
v0.2.0	2026-09-27	c031d90	9,846 B	A	view · diff
v0.1.0	2026-09-27	0edebe2	7,911 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9910 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

GitHub

zenstory-ai/zenstory · 76 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hyt6x7hjzylecorw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=zenstory-ai/zenstory/zenstory
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/68e61b23870e1bbc201440b695114a9c5103411c9341de5f719cbca063171657

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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