Plan Novel

Create or substantially revise a novel premise, structure, chapter plan, character arcs, and required world foundations. Use for a new novel or major structural replan.

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Plan Novel

Use any premise, constraints, or priorities supplied with the invocation.

  1. Resolve the repository root and inspect planning/, characters/, worldbuilding/, and manuscript/chapters/.
  2. Treat substantial manuscript prose as canon unless the user explicitly requests a retcon.
  3. Read .agents/roles/plot-architect.md.
  4. If the harness exposes a named plot-architect specialist, delegate a bounded planning task to it. Otherwise perform that role directly.
  5. Use character-developer and worldbuilder only for foundations that materially affect the plan.
  6. Create causally connected chapter purposes, turning points, setups, payoffs, and character decisions.
  7. Write or update planning/novel-outline.json.
  8. Record unresolved creative choices as explicit questions or provisional decisions, not hidden assumptions.
  9. Run ./sync-state.sh when tracking needs initialization or reconciliation.
  10. Summarize the premise, structural shape, major arcs, chapter count, open decisions, and next recommended drafting action.

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