scene-craft skillA
scene-craft is agent-read markdown (skill) from danjdewhurst/story-skills: This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan a scene", "scene structure", "sequel scene", "dialogue subtext", "deep POV", "psychic distance", "try fail", "scene cards", "exposition", "info dump", "flashback", "time skip", "story opening", "first page hook", "introduce a character", or wants scene-level craft for drafting or revision..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Scene Craft ## Overview Plan and check scenes at the scene grain — the layer between plot beats and chapter prose. Covers the missing half of the chapter-writing scene model (Scene **and** Sequel), try/fail escalation, scene cards, dialogue subtext, deep POV and psychic distance, exposition handling, flashbacks and time skips, and openings. Use during chapter planning, before drafting, and in revision when a scene feels flat. ## Prerequisites A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill), with characters defined (character-management) and a plot structure in place (plot-structure). This skill extends chapter-writing; it does not replace the outline-first drafting workflow. ## Workflow 1. **Choose the craft layer.** Identify which scene-grain problem this is: - Scene feels like incidents with no breathing room → `references/scene-sequel.md` - Middle of the chapter sags or resolves too easily → `references/try-fail.md` - Chapter has multiple POVs/timelines to order → `references/scene-cards.md` - Conversation reads flat or voices blur → `references/dialogue-subtext.md` - Narration feels distant or head-hops → `references/deep-pov.md` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/scene-craft@git:20260920.f646308mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/scene-craft@sha256:d54ca7532e3dc9a7Pin 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yw64e7vkir7trndn)
1 badge views in 30 days
Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260920.f646308 latest | 2026-09-20 | f646308 | 5,954 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.ee136e8 | 2026-09-20 | ee136e8 | 5,767 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.620c8c2 | 2026-09-20 | 620c8c2 | 5,901 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.5444aa3 | 2026-09-20 | 5444aa3 | 5,383 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 (5954 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_yw64e7vkir7trndn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/scene-craft GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d54ca7532e3dc9a73eed6c0ca32142d8aafe22566babbfc1f08206f611ba26b9
Your agent 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.