Agent skills for writers: prompts, skill packs, plugins, MCP

Example

In Claude Code, after the npx skills installation and /story-setup, open a fresh session in your writing folder. The requests below are suggestions to adapt.

With only a premise, ask for one reply that helps you choose You can discuss the idea before you have a complete character dossier, a final chapter count or any software vocabulary. Separate what you have decided, what remains open and what this reply should deliver. Start with an ordinary-chat comparison, and save “help me start a book” for when you want planning files.

A brief you can adapt: “So far I have decided: a coastal setting, a protagonist who repairs old radios and avoids family conflict, close third person and observable clues without a supernatural solution. Length and the central mystery remain open. In this reply only, compare two investigation openings: what she does first, what resists her and what each option still needs me to decide. Do not start new-book planning or any other skill, scan rankings, research external sources, create or change files, or draft chapter prose. Label added people, objects and clues as proposals.” This states the work boundary for the reply; on tool-enabled hosts, file access is still governed by the host's own permission settings.

An original illustration of a first reply These openings are alternatives: two different ways the same story could begin. The collection slip, customers and repair marks are new material proposed for this comparison and stay proposals until you adopt them.

Direction one: trace an object's history from a collection slip. One proposed opening has a customer bring an old radio with a collection slip bearing a family member's name. She wants to establish whether the slip really belongs with this machine but avoids asking her family directly. She could begin by questioning the person who delivered it and checking a visible identifier. The obstacle is that the same name does not yet explain what the family member did. The author still chooses whether the slip leads toward earlier safekeeping, repair or a transfer, and how the family was involved. Treat the name as a lead; falsification would need evidence of its own. This direction brings private relationship pressure into the investigation early.

Direction two: begin with two customers' conflicting accounts. One proposed opening has two people claim the same old radio, each giving a detail related to a visible repair mark. The protagonist selects one checkable claim to question and vouches for neither speaker, however certain they sound. The obstacle: the two accounts differ, yet both may be true, because the radio may have changed hands between them. The author still chooses which account she pursues first, what observable evidence exists and whether her family participated in a transfer. This direction first puts her in a face-to-face disagreement. Its family connection still has to be built into the plot, beyond a line in her character description.

This is enough for the first discussion: would you rather begin with a private relationship complicating an inquiry, or with the protagonist handling two people's disagreement? Each option supplies a first action. The whole-book truth, the family’s role and the final reveal stay open for your later rulings, and chapter outlines come with the planning request. After you choose a direction, each proposed person, object and clue can still be kept, rejected or left open; the first exchange can leave some of them unsettled.

Next: ask for something more specific than “continue” If undecided, name one comparison to develop: “Keep direction two's face-to-face disagreement and explain how it can press on her avoidance of family conflict. Still proposals only; do not make a new relationship an established fact.” The next reply then develops that one point and leaves the genre, character dossier and opening as they are. When ready to create a writing project, put your chosen direction into the new-book request below and list the central truth and family role that remain undecided. That request leaves both open for author decisions; if you have already decided, replace those two lines with your rulings so each item is marked either fixed or pending. Choosing an investigation opening settles one direction; the required settings and affected chapter outlines still come before an explicit prose request.

When ready to create planning files: /story-long-write 帮我开书 Plan an original Chinese-language coastal mystery serial. The protagonist repairs old radios and avoids confronting her family. Use close third person. Clues must be observable; no supernatural solution. Deliver the premise, character constraints, whole-book volume overview, volume outlines and the first ten chapter outlines. Stop before prose. Do not decide the central mystery or the family's role for me: list one or two options and the affected outlines; pause affected material until I choose, and continue independent planning. At the stopping point, list files created or changed, the completed outline range and pending author decisions. Say whether initial tracking has been created; do not claim it is initialized if the outline stage is still incomplete.

If choices remain, resolve them first and explicitly ask to save the chosen settings and complete the remaining planning—still no prose. After reviewing and revising the completed plan: /story-long-write 写第1章 Follow the agreed outline. Let the conflict emerge through dialogue and action. Write only chapter 1, then summarize the changed project records.