# Novel Init Wizard

> Use when creating a new fiction project through a deep planning interview, especially when the model should ask staged questions about genre, protagonist, world setup, conflict, and first-volume direction before creating the project.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-zhao73-xiaoshuo-studio-novel-init-wizard`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Zhao73](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/zhao73)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Zhao73](https://github.com/Zhao73)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Zhao73/xiaoshuo-studio/tree/main/.agents/skills/novel-init-wizard

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-zhao73-xiaoshuo-studio-novel-init-wizard
```

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

## About

# novel-init-wizard

## Purpose

Create a new novel project by walking the user through a staged planning interview instead of asking for one flat premise.

Reference: `docs/local-codex-studio.md`

## Workflow

1. Start a wizard session with `POST /api/wizard/start`.
2. Ask one question at a time.
3. Prefer short options first; allow custom input when the user's answer does not fit.
4. Continue through the full session until the wizard returns a preview.
5. Show the preview summary:
   - title
   - genre
   - premise
   - key roles
   - volume one direction
   - chapter one brief
6. Only after confirmation, call `POST /api/wizard/finish`.

## Guardrails

- Do not skip ahead and invent unanswered fields.
- Do not collapse the whole interview into one giant prompt.
- The wizard creates project seed, canon seed, volume outline, and chapter one brief; it does not directly draft chapter one.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Zhao73](https://github.com/Zhao73)
- **Source:** [Zhao73/xiaoshuo-studio](https://github.com/Zhao73/xiaoshuo-studio)
- **License:** MIT

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-zhao73-xiaoshuo-studio-novel-init-wizard
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/zhao73
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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