# Project Setup

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-haowjy-creative-writing-skills-project-setup`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [haowjy](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/haowjy)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [haowjy](https://github.com/haowjy)
- **Source:** https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/tree/main/cw/skills/project-setup

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-haowjy-creative-writing-skills-project-setup
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Project Setup

Guide the author through setting up their creative writing project. The goal
is a working `CLAUDE.md` and directory structure that all agents read for
project-specific conventions, plus initial style files if writing samples are
available.

## Learn About the Project

Ask about:

- What kind of project: novel, short story collection, serial?
- How far along: starting fresh, or existing chapters and worldbuilding?
- Single POV or multiple? Linear or non-linear timeline? How much worldbuilding?
- Where do they keep their writing? What's the existing layout?

## Writing Samples and Style

Ask about writing samples: these are the foundation for style analysis:

- Do they have sample chapters or scenes already written?
- Do they have writing from other projects that captures the voice they want?
- Are there published works they want to draw style inspiration from?
- Voice goals: close third, omniscient, first person? Formal, colloquial?

Collect whatever they have. Save samples to `kb/samples/` so they're available
for future style analysis. If they have enough material, offer to analyze
their style using the `/creative-writing-craft` methodology: read the samples,
identify the voice dimensions, and produce initial style files in `kb/styles/`.

If they're starting fresh with no samples, capture their voice goals in
CLAUDE.md so style files can be created from early drafts.

## Propose and Iterate

Based on what you learn, draft a `CLAUDE.md` section and show it to the
author. Cover:

- **Project overview**: what the project is, one paragraph
- **Author's space**: where the author keeps their writing and how it's
  organized
- **KB structure**: what subdirectories exist under `kb/` and what they're
  for. Suggest based on project complexity:
  - Simple (short story, single POV): `characters/`, `canon/`, `styles/`, root `vocab.md`
  - Medium (novel, few POVs): add `timeline/`
  - Complex (series, large world): add `world/`, `issues/`, and domain vocab files such as `world/vocab.md`
- **Voice and style**: what style files exist, what samples they're derived
  from, voice goals not yet captured
- **Conventions**: anything project-specific: naming patterns, chapter
  numbering, POV tagging, spoiler handling
- **Shared vocabulary**: early canonical terms, aliases, invented words,
  genre terms with project-specific meanings, and terms the author wants
  agents to avoid or distinguish

Present the draft and let the author adjust. Iterate until they're satisfied.

## Create the Files

Once approved:

1. Write or update `CLAUDE.md` with the agreed content
2. Create the `kb/` directories referenced in CLAUDE.md
3. Create `kb/vocab.md` when the project has named concepts agents must use
   consistently; create domain vocab files when a domain already has enough
   distinct terms
4. Create `work/` with standard subdirectories (outline/, drafts/,
   critique-reports/, brainstorm/)
5. Save any writing samples to `kb/samples/`
6. If samples were provided and the author wants style analysis, produce
   initial style files in `kb/styles/`

## Existing Projects

If `CLAUDE.md` already has creative writing conventions, read it first and
suggest updates rather than overwriting.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [haowjy](https://github.com/haowjy)
- **Source:** [haowjy/creative-writing-skills](https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-haowjy-creative-writing-skills-project-setup
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/haowjy
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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