Plan Novel
Use any premise, constraints, or priorities supplied with the invocation.
- Resolve the repository root and inspect
planning/,characters/,worldbuilding/, andmanuscript/chapters/. - Treat substantial manuscript prose as canon unless the user explicitly requests a retcon.
- Read
.agents/roles/plot-architect.md. - If the harness exposes a named
plot-architectspecialist, delegate a bounded planning task to it. Otherwise perform that role directly. - Use
character-developerandworldbuilderonly for foundations that materially affect the plan. - Create causally connected chapter purposes, turning points, setups, payoffs, and character decisions.
- Write or update
planning/novel-outline.json. - Record unresolved creative choices as explicit questions or provisional decisions, not hidden assumptions.
- Run
./sync-state.shwhen tracking needs initialization or reconciliation. - Summarize the premise, structural shape, major arcs, chapter count, open decisions, and next recommended drafting action.