Instructions file GitHub Copilot
Instructions for wordflowlab/novel-writer, covering quick context for ai coding agents, high-level architecture notes, common developer workflows (how to run / build / test), project-specific conventions and gotchas (do not invent) and what to change when adding or updating an agent.
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A Chinese-language command for comprehensively checking completed story content against its rules, specifications, plans, tasks, and existing chapters.
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A question-based workflow for finding unclear or missing decisions in a story outline. It asks up to five short questions about the audience, setting, characters, plot, style, and writing constraints.
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A command for creating or updating a novel-writing constitution: a document of non-negotiable principles for values, quality, style, characters, plot, world-building, readers, and writing discipline.
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A command that activates specialised writing advisers for areas such as plots, characters, worlds, and style. It can also load advisers supplied by plugins.
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A command that turns a clarified story specification into a technical plan for writing a novel. It creates a creative-plan.md covering structure, chapters, characters, world-building, plot conflicts, suspense, and narrative methods.
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A command that checks whether a novel's current plot matches its outline and tracked story state. It examines plot events, foreshadowing, conflict, character development, timelines, relationships, and character locations.
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A command tool for tracking relationships between characters and groups in a story. It records alliances, conflicts, feelings, factions, and how these relationships change over chapters.
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A command that turns a story idea into a product-style specification describing what the story should contain, not how to write it. It creates a draft with unclear points marked for later clarification.
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A task-list generator for turning a creative plan into smaller, trackable pieces of work.
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A story timeline manager that records when events happen, which chapters contain them, and which events run in parallel. It can also compare a historical novel's timeline with real historical events.
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A command that initializes tracking files for a writing project from its story outline and chapter plan. It records plot points, timelines, relationships, character states, and writing-method checkpoints.
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A command for tracking the progress and consistency of a novel across its writing, plot, timeline, characters, relationships, and unresolved clues.
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A command for checking whether a story’s world-building stays consistent, including its rules, places, culture, and technology or magic.
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A writing command for a novel-writing project that loads the story plan, previous chapters, character data, style rules, and other writing guidance before creating a chapter.
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A writing command that shapes drafts around a person’s own expressions, experiences, details, tone, and pace. It can use a personal voice file when one is available.
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A text review command that checks whether writing sounds natural, specific, and consistent with the author's voice.
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A command for examining a novel and extracting reusable writing techniques. It reads a TXT or MD file, checks its basic details, and summarizes story, characters, structure, viewpoint, and writing qualities.
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A Chinese-language command for analysing how characters are created in a novel, including their traits, goals, relationships, and changes over the story. It expects the novel to be loaded first with the related analysis command.
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A command for extracting repeatable story structures from successful novels, such as opening hooks, chapter layouts, and plot escalation.
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A command that turns book-analysis reports into reusable writing guidance for a Novel Writer project. It creates style, structure, and rhythm configuration files that later writing commands can use.
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A command for studying how a novel controls story pace, suspense, chapter openings, endings, and high points. It requires the novel to be loaded with book-analyze first.
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A story-structure analysis command for breaking down a novel’s conflicts, plot stages, and character development. It expects a novel file to be loaded first with the separate book-analyze command.
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A command for analysing how a novel is written, including its descriptions, actions, character thoughts, and dialogue.