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# Develop Story ## Catalog - Display name: Develop Story - Text category: yes - Categories: Text - Status: Ready - Route label: Agent-authored story development package - Tone: blue - Short description: Build or repair a story foundation before medium-specific production. - Similar skills: plan-comic-storyboard, render-comic-page, plan-film-storyboard ## What this skill does - Diagnoses whether the current need is foundation, story-relevant world pressure, causal beats, scenes, or structural revision. - Builds a protagonist whose want, need, false belief, history, pressure, choices, and stakes drive the plot. - Produces stage outputs that can hand off cleanly to prose, short drama, comics, or film planning. ## How to use Provide the idea or draft, audience, genre, target medium/length, fixed facts, desired emotional effect, ending constraints, and whether you want development only or selected scene drafts. #### Example ```text Develop this sci-fi premise for a feature: a climate archivist discovers tomorrow's weather records are being rewritten. Give me three premise directions, select the strongest, then build the protagonist, ending direction, causal beats, and scene briefs. ``` ## Workflow 1. Diagnose what already exists: premise, story core, ending, protagonist, world rules, causal beats, scenes, and draft. Preserve fixed facts and label proposed changes. 2. When the foundation is missing, offer three genuinely different premise seeds with audience hook, contrad