expand-beatlisted

# Skill: expand-beat **What it does.** Turns a one-line beat ("the girl realizes he knows") or a rough fragment into drafted prose. The lightweight sibling of `draft-scene` — for when the author has a seed but not a full scene contract. **Triggers** - "expand this beat: {...}" - "/expand-beat" - "turn this note into a scene" - "I have this fragment, develop it" - Equivalent phrasing in the project's output language **Input.** The beat or fragment, plus (asked if missing): who is on stage, where it sits in the chapter, target length. **Output.** Drafted passage in a `_draft` block or file, marked for curation. **Never written into the manuscript.** > **Write the prose in the project's output language.** --- ## Core principle > **The beat is the author's plot decision. Expansion adds texture, not events.** The line between expanding and inventing: - Beat: *"the merchant admits he sent the letter"* → the expansion may add hesitation, gesture, the room, the pause before the admission — **but not** a second revelation, a new character arriving, or a consequence the beat doesn't contain. If the expansion needs a plot decision the beat doesn't carry ("does she believe him?"), **stop and ask**. One question at the boundary beats a paragraph of invented plot. --- ## Execution protocol ### Step 1 — Load context Lighter than `draft-scene`, but never zero: 1. `.project/config/project.yaml` — output language 2. `.project/config/persona.md` — voice, ceilings, model passages