book-writerlisted

Orchestration skill for book-scale long-form writing (fiction or nonfiction). Owns the SHAPE of a book project — chapter architecture, beats methodology, workspace management, book mode, scene/science split, vignette library, long-form orchestration. Delegates VOICE (prose generation) to /authors-voice via the Apply Protocol minion dispatch. Loads as governing context at session start when a book project is detected, OR via explicit invocation. Use when: "/book-writer", "/book", "write a book", "book project", "chapter beats", "chapter architecture", "beat map", "TOC", "table of contents", "book outline", "book reshape", "draft a chapter", "long-form", "multi-chapter", "book mode", "book workspace", any work involving multi-chapter book structure. NOT for: single-chapter essays, blog posts, tweets — those go to /authors-voice directly. Voice-only setup (anchor blend, NEVER rules, fingerprints, corpus analysis) lives in /authors-voice.
travsteward/openwriter · ★ 13 · AI & Automation · score 83

Install: claude install-skill travsteward/openwriter

# Book Writer Book-scale orchestration skill. Pairs with `/authors-voice` (voice pipeline). Together: this skill specifies WHAT must land in each beat; `/authors-voice` specifies HOW the prose sounds. ## FIRM RULES ### 1. Book orchestration loads BEFORE per-chapter work. The book-class question, chapter architecture, and workspace management must commit before any per-chapter beat work begins. Per-chapter beats without committed chapter containers land in arbitrary places, spill across boundaries, and produce a book the reader can't carry. If the user asks for chapter-level work and the book hasn't run through architecture: **STOP** and run architecture first. Architecture passes are cheap; beat work in wrong containers is expensive. ### 2. Prose generation always delegates to /authors-voice. This skill owns SHAPE — chapter containers, beats, workspace organization, vignette slots, the TASK brief. `/authors-voice` owns VOICE — anchor blend, NEVER rules, fingerprints, minion dispatch, post-write audit. When a chapter draft or any prose pour is needed, this skill's job ends at "the brief is locked"; the prose call goes through `/authors-voice`'s Apply Protocol with the brief as the TASK. **If this skill catches itself drafting prose: STOP and spawn a authors-voice minion** — even for one sentence, one transition, one closer. Same Rule 1 as authors-voice, applied at the orchestration layer. Two carve-outs (mirroring authors-voice): - **Beat structure text** (declarative