Grizzly

grizzly-audit

Simulate a cold first-time reader and report the reading experience of a chapter. Use when the user asks why a chapter feels boring or flat, whether a chapter works, what a reader would feel, or wants a fresh-eyes read. Reports experience, not errors; for error-finding use grizzly-review.

grizzly-brainstorm

Generate and explore ideas for plot, characters, or worldbuilding. Use when the user wants options, what-ifs, to think through a character arc, solve a narrative problem, or talk through where the story could go.

grizzly-cards

Create, update, or bootstrap the project codex (chapter cards, arc cards, character cards). Use when a chapter is finished or edited, when continuity cards need updating, when the user asks to card a chapter, or to onboard an existing manuscript into the codex.

grizzly-draft

Expand the author's rough material into prose. Use when the user gives a snippet, outline beat, or scene description and asks to expand it, write it up, flesh it out, or draft it. The highest-risk mode; runs on strict rails.

grizzly-edit

Improve or fix existing prose. Use when the user shares a passage or chapter and asks to improve it, fix it, polish it, tighten it, or asks what's wrong with it. Diagnosis-first, surgical line fixes, never a wholesale rewrite.

grizzly-init

Set up a new Grizzly writing project. Use when the user wants to start using Grizzly on a novel, when no NOVEL.md exists in the project, or when the user asks to onboard an existing manuscript. Creates NOVEL.md, VOICE.md, STANDARDS.md and the codex scaffold through a guided interview.

grizzly-plan

Plan chapters, arcs, or sequences. Use when the user wants to plan what happens next, structure an arc, outline a chapter, decide POV, or think through story structure. Integrates the technique deck for structural moves.

grizzly-review

Comprehensive quality review of one or more chapters. Use when the user asks for a full review, quality check, violation scan, or pre-publication pass. Runs five passes with severity-tiered findings. For "why is this boring" use grizzly-audit instead.

grizzly-voice

Build or update the author's VOICE.md spec. Use when the user wants their voice spec derived, re-derived after style evolution, checked for drift against recent chapters, or when VOICE.md is provisional and real chapters now exist.

grizzly

Writing partner for novelists. Use for any work on the user's novel — drafting prose from the author's raw material, editing or improving passages, brainstorming plot or characters, planning chapters and arcs, or continuity questions. Trigger on mentions of the novel, chapters, scenes, characters, drafting, revising, "expand this", "improve this", "what should happen next". Routes to the grizzly-* mode skills.