Novelist

analytical-review

Review novel outlines, drafted chapters, full manuscripts, and prior revision findings as an independent analytical editor. Use when the author explicitly requests critique, developmental review, work examination, line editing, proofreading, whole-manuscript review, or regression verification, and when an explicitly fully autonomous workflow covers the complete novel lifecycle from initial planning through publication. Produce an intent-aware, evidence-backed report with Overall Assessment, Work Examination, and Line Editing or Proofreading sections while remaining read-only by default. Do not invoke this skill automatically for ordinary planning, drafting, revision, continuity validation, EPUB export, build, regeneration, packaging, validation, or publication requests.

create-character

Create character source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to invent, refine, name, or save a fictional character into characters/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter, especially from role, personality, setting, era, region, language, relationships, motives, secrets, or plot function.

create-material

Create story material source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to generate, refine, or save raw novel material such as motifs, objects, scene seeds, dialogue seeds, research notes, themes, images, conflicts, clues, or reusable ideas into materials/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

create-novel-project

Initialize a safe, self-contained Markdown novel workspace from the Novelist plugin scaffold. Use when the user wants to start, scaffold, bootstrap, or create a new novel project with source directories, templates, continuity rules, visual guidance, and EPUB output conventions.

create-plot

Create whole-novel plot and plot-thread source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to generate, refine, structure, or save a central plot, act structure, promise, pressure, reversals, turns, reveals, or payoffs into plot/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

create-setting

Create whole-novel setting and worldbuilding source files for this novel project. Use when the user wants to generate, refine, or save a novel setting, era, region, social order, locations, rules, atmosphere, constraints, or continuity facts into world/ as Markdown with YAML frontmatter.

create-visual-asset

Create cover and illustration image assets for this novel project with an available raster image provider. Use when the user wants to plan, generate, refine, or save a book cover, chapter illustration, spot illustration, visual motif, or image prompt while preserving a consistent visual style across assets.

novel-story-telling

Design and control whole-novel storytelling, reader mental-model progression, chapter-to-chapter flow, conflict escalation and resolution, reveals, foreshadowing, continuity, safe chapter-file creation, and next-chapter handoffs for this Markdown novel repository. Use when planning, drafting, or revising story structure, modeling what a target reader knows, infers, misreads, or still asks at each story turn, auditing cohesion or reader orientation, preparing or writing the next chapter from prior context, creating a template-conformant chapter under chapters/, checking contradictions, maintaining story-state summaries, selecting genre-specific narrative devices, or auditing character, timeline, world-rule, clue, MacGuffin, and plot-thread continuity.

publish-novel

Publish this Markdown novel project as a validated EPUB using the skill's bundled packaging script. Use when the author asks to publish, export, build, regenerate, package, or validate the novel or EPUB; when checking publication metadata, chapter readiness, covers, illustrations, generated output, or EPUB integrity; or when coordinating a missing cover before publication.