writers-room-story-engine

writers-room-story-engine is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jackterror/writers-room-story-engine. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,120 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for developing stories in stages, from the initial idea through worldbuilding, scene writing, and revision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build story foundations, develop settings, write scenes, strengthen narrative structure, and revise existing drafts.
Why use it?
It helps identify what a story still needs before generating more writing. This keeps the process aligned with the current stage of development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build story foundations, develop settings, write scenes, strengthen narrative structure, and revise existing drafts.

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Any agent
npx skills add jackterror/writers-room-story-engine --skill writers-room-story-engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackterror/writers-room-story-engine

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When invoked 1,120 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.01120
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash c6ce6280571b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writers-room-story-engine scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writers Room Story Engine

Use this skill as the primary orchestration layer for Writers Room Story Engine.

Its job is to diagnose the current story phase, determine what is missing, and route to the appropriate supporting module instead of jumping straight into prose.

Supporting modules

  • story-suite/designing-stories.md
  • story-suite/creating-story-foundations.md
  • story-suite/building-storyworlds.md
  • story-suite/writing-story-scenes.md
  • story-suite/revising-stories.md

Fallback

  • MEGA-SKILL.md is the fallback one-file version for simplified testing or deployment.

Purpose

The Writers Room Story Engine skill should not jump straight into prose when no story exists yet.

It should work through stages:

  1. story foundation
  2. world support when needed
  3. scene writing
  4. revision

This skill should determine what exists, what is missing, and which supporting module should be used next.

Required behavior

1. Diagnose the current phase first

Before generating long-form output, determine:

  • does a premise already exist?
  • does a story core already exist?
  • does an ending direction already exist?
  • does a protagonist already exist?
  • do major beats already exist?
  • does the world need to be built or adapted?
  • are scenes ready to draft?
  • is there already a draft that needs revision?

2. Route to the correct skill

Use:

  • story-suite/designing-stories.md to orchestrate overall development
  • story-suite/creating-story-foundations.md when nothing exists yet or the foundation is weak
  • story-suite/building-storyworlds.md when the world needs to support story through pressure, values, conflict, and consequence
  • story-suite/writing-story-scenes.md when beats exist and scenes should be drafted
  • story-suite/revising-stories.md when a story, outline, or draft is weak

3. Preserve stage discipline

Do not skip foundation work unless the user explicitly asks to skip it.

By default, foundation work should build:

  • seed options
  • story core
  • ending direction
  • protagonist engine
  • Story Spine
  • major beats

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 159 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A c6ce6280571b

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writers-room-story-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository jackterror/writers-room-story-engine (34 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,120 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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