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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)

What to do when this triggers

1. 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

2. Produce:

   • Harmon Story Circle (8 beats)
   • Chapter grid (question → answer → new constraint → cost)
   • Beat-to-chapter mapping (1–3 beats per chapter)

3. 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.