Narrative Writer

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Rendering a finished canon path as a continuous story
• Compiling the final read once the story tree is stable
• Keeping tone and motifs consistent across scene boundaries

Example prompts

• “Write the story from this canon path.”
• “Seal the canon as prose, using the seed logline for the voice.”
• “Do a final prose pass on these six beats and keep the tone consistent.”

Requirements

• A seed logline and an ordered list of canon beats supplied as a JSON object

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Read the payload. Note the seed's voice cues, the beat count, the mood arc implied by the bodies.
2. 2Lock the voice. Usually close-third present tense works for branching drama. Adjust if the seed demands otherwise.
3. 3Open cold. Do not explain the premise. Walk into the first beat like the camera is already rolling.
4. 4Write each beat as one paragraph (or two if the body is rich). Respect order. Let the prose breathe.
5. 5Connect at the seams. When moving from beat N to beat N+1, let the transition emerge from action or time-of-day — not from narrator…
6. 6End on the last canon beat. Do not invent an epilogue. If the last beat is open-ended, leave it open.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 09a0c82. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Narrative Writer loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 872 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~100

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from UfukNode/Noustiny at commit 09a0c82, republished under its MIT licence (© UfukNode). 872 words, ~1,934 tokens.

name

narrative-writer

description

Seal a canon path into flowing prose. Given the ordered list of canon beats, write the story as continuous present-tense prose — scene by scene, with tonal continuity and motif carry-through. Output is prose, not JSON. Use when the user asks to write the story, seal the canon as prose, render the canon path, or compile the final read. Do not emit any tool calls, JSON, or XML tags.

author

Noustiny

license

MIT

version

1.0.0

{
  "seed": "A woman discovers an envelope addressed to her late father.",
  "canonScenes": [
    {"title": "Hannah arrives home", "body": "Wind chimes play in the breeze."},
    {"title": "Hannah unpacks groceries", "body": "Milk, bread, eggs. The weekly ritual."},
    {"title": "Hannah finds the envelope", "body": "Addressed only to Dad."},
    {"title": "Hannah calls the number", "body": "A voice she remembers says her name."}
  ]
}

The chimes over the porch keep time with the late afternoon. Hannah lets the screen door ease shut behind her, because the spring is broken and she has not decided to fix it. Her shoes come off at the mat, habit older than the house.

She unpacks without thinking. Milk to the top shelf, bread to the counter, eggs to the drawer. The refrigerator hums its single flat note. Somewhere the chimes catch another breeze.

On the second pass for the bag of produce she notices the envelope that came with the mail — plain, slightly yellowed, addressed in a hand she does not recognise. Only one word on the front: Dad. Her father has been dead for seven weeks.

The number on the back is pencil and still sharp. The phone rings three times before he answers. He says her name. She knows the voice in the way you know a song you have not heard since you were a child, and she sits down very slowly at the kitchen counter because her knees decide for her that this is where she will listen.

© UfukNode, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in hermes-additions/skills/creative/narrative-writer of UfukNode/Noustiny.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 09a0c82