Is the Chapter Writing skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from danjdewhurst/story-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the Chapter Writing SkillProof Score?

9.6/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install Chapter Writing?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use Chapter Writing with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

Chapter Writing

Outline-first chapter drafting that reads your whole story bible and updates continuity after writing.

by danjdewhurst · danjdewhurst/story-skills

Tested · Works

Install — copy the command Download source ↗

Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.6/10
Tested: Jul 13, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Jul 18, 2026 · 66c0648

Ran a real side-by-side on a scratch story project: the no-skill baseline chapter opened with 'Rain hammered the tin roofs...' — the exact cliche the skill's own writing-guidelines.md tells you to avoid — while the skill-guided version opened on dialogue, planted a tracked setup/payoff in continuity/promises/_index.md, and left a full matching set of updated indices behind.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 9/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What Chapter Writing does

Gathers story bible, character, plot-arc, timeline, and continuity files before drafting, builds a beat-by-beat outline for approval, writes the prose in the story's established POV and voice, then updates the chapter index, timeline, scene files, and foreshadowing tracker. Triggers on 'write a chapter', 'next chapter', 'chapter outline', 'draft chapter', or 'continue the story'. Requires an existing story project (story.md plus at least one character file) — it does not bootstrap a new project from nothing.

How to install Chapter Writing

git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills
cd story-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/chapter-writing ~/.claude/skills/chapter-writing

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger Chapter Writing

/chapter-writing Outline-first chapter drafting that reads your whole story bible and updates continuity after writing.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

Draft the next chapter of my story with continuity
Outline and write chapter three of my novel
Continue my story from where the last chapter ended

Frequently asked questions

Is the Chapter Writing skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from danjdewhurst/story-skills. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does Chapter Writing work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 13, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Ran a real side-by-side on a scratch story project: the no-skill baseline chapter opened with 'Rain hammered the tin roofs...' — the exact cliche the skill's own writing-guidelines.md tells you to avoid — while the skill-guided version opened on dialogue, planted a tracked setup/payoff in continuity/promises/_index.md, and left a full matching set of updated indices behind.
What is the Chapter Writing SkillProof Score?: 9.6/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 9/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install Chapter Writing?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use Chapter Writing with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.