create-characterlisted

# Skill: create-character **What it does.** Builds or updates a character sheet in `.project/knowledge/characters/{name}.md`. Two modes: **extract** (pull a character from an existing manuscript) or **create** (develop a new character through dialogue). **Triggers** - "create a character" - "/create-character {name}" - "extract {character} from the manuscript" - "let's develop {character}" - "update {character}'s sheet" - Equivalent phrasing in the project's output language **Input.** Character name or designation; mode (`extract` | `create`), inferred from whether the character exists in the manuscript. **Output.** `.project/knowledge/characters/{name}.md`, following `.project/templates/character.md`. > **Write the sheet in the project's output language.** --- ## Core principle > **A character sheet exists to keep the character writable, not to biograph them.** The test for every field: *does this help write the next scene consistently?* Childhood backstory that never pressures a scene is lore. The way a character dodges questions about their past — that is craft material. Record the second, skip the first unless it feeds it. --- ## The hierarchy of what matters Not all sections are equal. In order of daily usefulness: 1. **Voice** — how they sound. The single most-consulted section during drafting. 2. **Consistency rules** — facts that must hold. What `check-consistency` reads. 3. **Want / Need / Fear / Lie** — the engine. What makes scenes possible. 4. **Arc*