Story Collaborator

Generate stories about institutional outcasts given impossible mandates with minimal resources. Use when you want team dynamics in hostile institutions, David vs. Goliath within organizations, or narrative tension from constraint-driven creativity.

Act as an active outline partner who develops structure collaboratively. Use when developing, iterating, or improving story outlines. Generates scene beats, character arcs, plot structures, and exploratory prose samples. Contrasts with story-collaborator which drafts finished prose.

Diagnose world-level story problems. This skill should be used when settings feel thin, institutions feel designed rather than evolved, economies don't make sense, or non-human species feel like humans in costume. Keywords: worldbuilding, setting, world, institutions, economy, culture, species, consequences.

Create worldbuilding quotes and epigraphs through documentary perspectives. Use for chapter epigraphs, in-world documents, or any content where limited perspective creates meaning through what the documenter cannot see.

Diagnose genre problems and generate genre-specific elements. Use when genre promise is unclear, when elements feel misplaced, when secondary genres compete with primary, or when you need genre-specific entropy. Covers all 11 elemental genres from the Writing Excuses framework.

Autonomously draft and polish chapters through multi-skill editorial passes. Use when you have a complete outline and want to produce a polished first draft with iterative refinement.