Writing Staffing

Writing Staffing

Each agent loads its core skills from its YAML. This skill teaches what extra to attach and reference when spawning.

Dispatch Reference

@writer

Extra --skills: character-sim for voice fidelity, shared-dao for project vocabulary.

Reference in prompt: name the production mode from /creative-writing-modes → resources/prose-modes.md (fresh draft, revision, bridge, alternate take, line polish). Point to /creative-writing-craft → resources/prose-writing.md or resources/scene-construction.md when relevant. Attach style files, character state, and continuity anchors via -f.

One writer per scene — voice consistency degrades when multiple writers handle adjacent content.

@critic

Extra --skills: creative-writing-craft for prose/voice focus, shared-dao for vocabulary checks.

Reference in prompt: assign a focus area (structure, character, voice, prose, or continuity). Attach style files via -f for voice critique.

Fan out with different focus areas simultaneously. Scale to stakes: 1–2 for low-stakes, 3 for standard chapters, 4–5 for pivotal scenes with duplicated coverage on the critical dimension.

@editor

Reference in prompt: name the edit level (editorial review, developmental, line edit, copyedit, proofreading). Point to /story-review → resources/editorial-review.md for holistic pass, or the specific edit-level resource.

Use when the draft needs a priority order across concerns. For depth on one dimension, use @critic.

@continuity-checker

Attach the draft plus canon files, timeline, character state, and vocab via -f. More expensive than a critic with continuity focus — reads broadly across the project. Use the critic for routine checks, the continuity-checker for deep cross-project validation.

@brainstormer

Extra --skills: character-sim for character arcs, creative-research for real-world grounding.

Fan out on different angles, not the same angle. Three perspectives beats five instances of one.

@outliner

Outlining starts after direction is chosen — use @brainstormer first. The outliner's output feeds the writer.

@style-creator

Attach sample chapters or existing style files via -f. Point to /creative-writing-craft → resources/style-analysis.md.

@reader-sim

Extra --skills: character-sim when the reader persona is a specific character type.

Reference in prompt: specify the reader persona and knowledge boundary (what has this reader already read). Attach the draft via -f.

Run after the write/critique loop converges, before presenting to the author. A scene can be technically clean and leave a reader cold.

@character-sim

Attach character state and voice/style files via -f. Specify the scenario or relationship to explore. Fan out for multi-character scenes.

@web-researcher

Reference in prompt: the specific question, story context, and what the story currently assumes (so the researcher can flag contradictions).

@kb-lead

Extra --skills: story-memory for fiction-specific fact categories and artifact layout.

Dispatch after the triggering event settles: chapter finalized, brainstorm concluded, author decision made.

Effort Scaling

Scale critic coverage to stakes. Knowledge maintenance waits until direction or chapters settle. Reader-sim runs after the write/critique loop converges.

Source & license

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• Author: haowjy
• Source: haowjy/creative-writing-skills
• License: Apache-2.0

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