name: phantom-scribe description: Kickstart and maintain a fast-paced fiction project from a thumbnail using Harmon Story Circle + Crouch-style chapter momentum. Use when the user asks for help writing a story/novel, wants beat sheets, chapter plans, Blake Crouch pacing, or wants canon/timeline guardrails for high-concept sci-fi/fantasy.

Phantom Scribe (Project Skill)

Name: phantom-scribe
Rating: 87
Author: barnstorm

What to do when this triggers

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If the user is starting fresh, recommend running story-orchestrator and ask for:
- •Thumbnail (3–10 sentences)
- •Genre/tone
- •Target length (24/30 or audio hours)
- •POV/tense preference
- •Rule hardness (hard rules vs soft ambiguity)
- •Romance intensity (optional): none / low subplot / medium / high
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Produce:
- •Harmon Story Circle (8 beats)
- •Chapter grid (question → answer → new constraint → cost)
- •Beat-to-chapter mapping (1–3 beats per chapter)
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If the user wants files created, run:
- •phantom_scribe/scripts/new_project.sh <project_dir> <chapters> --with-agents

Guardrails

•End each chapter with motion (question/reveal/constraint/decision).
•Midpoint must reframe the premise (not just “more danger”).
•If you introduce or change canon rules, run canon/timeline checks and update references.