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name: continuity-checking description: Validate continuity by scanning scenes for contradictions, invented specificity (brands/addresses/vehicle models), and character knowledge violations. Use after writing or editing scenes.

Continuity Checking

Audit a scene (or an episode/chapter) against prior content and canon.

What To Detect

1) Invented Specificity (Most Common)

Flag new, high-specificity proper nouns/details that weren’t established:

• store names, street names, company names
• brand names (cars, clothes, tech)
• precise addresses, phone models, etc.

Preferred fix: genericize unless canon requires the specificity.

2) Character Knowledge Violations (CRITICAL)

A character can only know what they:

• witnessed
• were told
• deduced from evidence
• researched (and the results must be in canon)

Also check context violations: characters operating as if they understand the true situation when they only have partial context.

3) Timeline/Sequence Problems

• time-of-day contradictions
• events referenced before they occur
• implausible travel/time gaps

4) Canon Contradictions

• character traits contradict character files
• plot beats contradict outlines
• setting details contradict setting canon

Output

Produce a report with:

• Status: PASS / FAIL / WARNINGS
• Grouped findings (invented specificity, knowledge, timeline, canon)
• Minimal fix recommendations