howells

118 mods across 4 repositories, 46 stars between them.

review

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howells/arc

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Run expert review on a plan, spec, or implementation approach with parallel reviewer agents. Presents findings as Socratic questions. Use when asked to "review the plan", "check this approach", or before implementation to validate architectural decisions. Optional argument: reviewer name (e.g., /arc:review…

25 17d ago A 68 tokens original MIT

testing

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howells/arc

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Characterization testing and safety-net backfill for existing code. Use when legacy, under-tested, or risky code needs tests before a refactor, bug fix, or behavior change. Captures current behavior through public interfaces, identifies coverage gaps, and adds focused unit, integration, or E2E tests without replacing…

25 17d ago A 70 tokens original MIT

using-arc

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howells/arc

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Use when starting any conversation - establishes Arc's skill routing, instruction priority, and bootstrap rules.

25 17d ago A 22 tokens original MIT

vision

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howells/arc

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Create or maintain a project's root CONTEXT.md — goals, product boundary, non-goals, decision principles, and a domain language glossary. Use when starting a new project, clarifying product direction, aligning a codebase for future agent work, defining a north star, pinning down domain terminology, or turning a vague…

25 17d ago A 76 tokens original MIT

howells

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howells/fiction

Plugin Claude Code

Plugin marketplace listing 1 plugin: fiction.

17 1mo ago A tokens not measured

fiction

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howells/fiction

Plugin Claude Code

Write complete novels with Claude and Codex. Literary prose, iterative review, and craft-aware feedback.

17 1mo ago A tokens not measured

architect

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Agent

Design high-level story architecture. Use when starting a new project, rethinking structure, or establishing the foundation of a story. Produces premise, theme, arc, ending, and tone.

17 1mo ago A 40 tokens

chapter-reviewer

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Review a chapter after writing. Checks coherence, cheesiness, consistency, pace, tone, and character. Suggests specific rewrites.

17 1mo ago A 31 tokens

character-developer

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Create or develop character documents. Use when establishing new characters or deepening existing ones.

17 1mo ago A 21 tokens

continuity

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Check for consistency issues across chapters. Finds timeline problems, character detail changes, plot holes, and contradictions.

17 1mo ago A 24 tokens

cover-artist

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Generate book cover art prompts from story content. Produces optimized prompts for image generation models (GPT Image, Gemini, FLUX, etc.) that conform to Kindle dimensions.

17 1mo ago A 38 tokens

critique

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Write a full literary critique of a completed manuscript. NYT/New Yorker style. Only use when the manuscript is complete.

17 1mo ago A 27 tokens

editor

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Line-level editing for spelling, grammar, awkward phrasing, word echoes, and polish. Run across chapters for manuscript-wide cleanup.

17 1mo ago A 28 tokens

illustrator

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Generate consistent chapter illustrations using motif series. Reads chapter content, extracts key scenes, and generates illustration prompts that maintain visual consistency across the book.

17 1mo ago A 31 tokens

james-wood

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Agent

Review like James Wood of The New Yorker. Deeply literate, focused on sentences, consciousness, and the craft of fiction. For literary fiction.

17 1mo ago A 35 tokens

language-checker

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Verify non-English phrases for grammatical correctness, contextual appropriateness, and translation accuracy. Catches anachronisms, dialect mismatches, and register errors.

17 1mo ago A 35 tokens

naming

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Generate and validate book title options. Reads project content, produces title candidates using proven naming strategies, and checks availability against existing books.

17 1mo ago A 29 tokens

new-project

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Create a new fiction project from scratch. Interactive wizard that guides through discovery, architecture, characters, world, and outline. Highly conversational with multiple choice at every step.

17 1mo ago A 36 tokens

next

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Assess project status and suggest what to work on next. Use when you sit down and don't know where to start.

17 1mo ago A 25 tokens

outliner

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Break a story into chapters and scenes. Use after architecture is established to create a working outline.

17 1mo ago A 22 tokens

reader-careful

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Comprehensive chapter analysis with craft observations and quotes. Includes all skim-level data plus arcs, themes, and evidence.

17 1mo ago A 27 tokens

reader-digest

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Coordinate reading an entire manuscript via parallel reader agents. Writes manuscript-digest.md and returns a short summary. Prevents context overflow in parent agents.

17 1mo ago A 33 tokens

reader-skim

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Agent

Fast fact extraction from a single chapter. Plot beats, timeline, characters, settings. Designed for parallel spawning.

17 1mo ago A 26 tokens

review-coordinator

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Coordinate reviewing multiple chapters via parallel chapter-reviewer agents. Writes review-report.md and returns aggregate summary. Prevents context overflow.

17 1mo ago A 29 tokens