premise-workshop SKILL.md skillA
premise-workshop 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/premise-workshop@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/premise-workshop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 11,734 bytes
- Repository stars
- 382
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm a story idea", "I have an idea for a story", "what if", "develop a premise", "is this idea strong enough", "workshop my logline", "premise", "story concept", "what should I write", "short story or novel", "novella or novel", "name my book", "title ideas", or has a spark (an image, a character, a setting, a question) and wants to turn it into a tested premise before starting a story project. NOT for the controlling idea or theme of an…
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
# Premise Workshop ## Overview Turn a spark into a premise that can carry a book, before `story init` builds the project. The workshop generates what-ifs from the spark, tests them as loglines, drafts the controlling idea and its counter-argument (`premise` and `counter-premise` in `story.md`), names the stakes, chooses a form (the `form` field), brainstorms titles, sanity-checks the idea against comparable books, and hands a filled-in brief to the `story-init` skill. The author owns the idea: offer options and tests, never decide for them. ## Prerequisites None. The workshop usually runs before a project exists. If the user wants the work saved before `story init`, keep it in one `premise-notes.md` file in the current directory (outside the future project folder) and move the kept material into `story.md` after init. ## When to Use - The user has a spark but no premise, or several ideas and cannot choose - The user has a premise and wants to know whether it holds up - Choosing between short story, novella, novel, serial, or a children's form - Brainstorming a title, or checking a working title against the cast …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/premise-workshop@sha256:fe071751eeb6bb82The 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 13 versions of this file, between Sep 24, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 11,734 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.c684e27 | 2026-10-08 | c684e27 | 11,593 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.ef4d3e3 | 2026-10-07 | ef4d3e3 | 11,728 B | A | view · diff |
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Audit of the latest version
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Source
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 382 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yuqvzml6rgregqoy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/premise-workshop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fe071751eeb6bb821092081b6b8a097d0a3ce8c9f37e14124f9d7e1d9829aaf8
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