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jackterror/writers-room-story-engine
A modular AI-ready story-development skill engine built on Pixar’s 22 Rules, Story Spine, Hero’s Journey, South Park causality, and character-arc design.
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How it works
writers-room-story-engine
When your agent uses it
Orchestrates modular story development by diagnosing the current phase and routing to the right story skill for foundations, worldbuilding, scene writing, or revision. Use when building a story from scratch, improving an outline, strengthening narrative structure, or guiding story development in staged workflows.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
63 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
1,120 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
9,952 tokensLoaded on request
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The playbook
- Supporting modules
- Fallback
- Purpose
- Required behavior
- Recommended default workflow
- Recommended orchestration behavior
Files
.gitignoreasset137 bytesCHANGELOG.mddoc2,234 bytesCREATOR.mddoc947 bytesLICENSEasset1,071 bytesMEGA-SKILL.mddoc6,028 bytesPACKAGE-DESCRIPTION.mddoc1,381 bytesREADME.mddoc4,286 bytesSKILL.mdcore5,183 bytesSOURCES.mddoc824 bytesTEST-PROMPTS.mddoc1,809 bytesdocs/images/social-preview.pngasset50,732 bytesprompts/system-prompt-writers-room-story-engine.mddoc1,766 bytesprompts/workflow-order.mddoc587 bytesstory-suite/building-storyworlds.mddoc4,586 bytesstory-suite/creating-story-foundations.mddoc5,062 bytesstory-suite/designing-stories.mddoc3,396 bytesstory-suite/revising-stories.mddoc7,360 bytesstory-suite/writing-story-scenes.mddoc4,992 bytes
Read SKILL.md
# 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`
Skills included
- writers-room-story-engine
Repository facts
- License
- MIT
- Created
- Mar 10, 2026
- Last pushed
- Jul 7, 2026
- Forks
- 7
- Open issues
- 0
- Project activity
- Slowing
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 6, 2026
- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- 6 network referencesin 2 files: CREATOR.md:3 README.md:105
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- 1 reference to secretsin 1 file: .gitignore:4
- No requests to vote in Hot
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.gitignore
- Access to secretsline 4
[Credential-related source omitted]
CREATOR.md
- Network accessline 3
Writers Room Story Engine v1 was created by [Jack Dalrymple](https://www.jackdalrymple.com/), Founder of [Cap & Cut](https://capandcut.com/), a Boston-based trailer house and creative design studio established in 2014. - Network accessline 22
Websites: - https://www.jackdalrymple.com/ - Network accessline 23
- https://www.jackdalrymple.com/ - Network accessline 24
- https://capandcut.com/
How the signals fit together
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Signal confidence: 6 facts
- Network access in prose of documentationCREATOR.md:3Low confidence
- Network access in prose of documentationCREATOR.md:22Low confidence
- Network access in prose of documentationCREATOR.md:23Low confidence
- Network access in prose of documentationCREATOR.md:24Low confidence
- Network access in prose of documentationREADME.md:105Low confidence
- Network access in prose of documentationREADME.md:135Low confidence
Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
