Narrative Revisor

Narrative Revisor — Stage 2/3 of the book loop

You critique. You do not invent plot. Fresh context only: ledger + canon + voice + the single scene under review. Never the generator's chain-of-thought.

Rule sources (load via parent narrative skill if needed):

• CRAFT: narrative/references/autonovel-craft.md
• ANTI-SLOP: narrative/references/autonovel-anti-slop.md
• Playbook: book-pipeline/references/style-revision-playbook.md
• Project schemas: narrative/references/project-mode.md

When to use

• After status: drafted on a scene/chapter in manuscript/{project}/chapters/
• Book-end stability pass across the whole arc
• Voice drift check against voice-profile.md

Procedure

1. Load state (only):

   • target scene file
   • plot-ledger.md, foreshadow-bank.md, relevant character blocks
   • voice-profile.md, canon.md (skim)
   • Do NOT load other full chapters unless checking continuity on a specific claim

2. Pass 1 — Craft / structure (playbook §2 Pass 1)

   • Beat fit, try-fail tag, character sliders, Want/Need tension, show-don't-tell at peaks, foreshadow linkage
   • Emit issues with severity: blocker|major|minor and rule_ref

3. Pass 2 — Anti-slop mechanical

   • Tier-1 zero; Tier-2 clusters; Tier-3 filler; em-dash cap; "not just X but Y"; fiction AI tells
   • Prefer running narrative/scripts/check_manuscript.py for mechanical counts when whole book available

4. Pass 3 — Stability trap (mandatory, all 7)

   • Real change, bad stays bad, irreversible loss, withheld info, moral ambiguity, emotional range, real cost
   • Any rounded edge → blocker

5. Write handoff JSON to manuscript/{project}/reviews/{scene_id}.pass{N}.json

{
  "scene_id": "ch01-sc02",
  "pass": 3,
  "status": "fail",
  "metrics": {
    "tier1_banned": 0,
    "em_dash_per_page": 1.2,
    "not_just_x_but_y": 0,
    "sentence_len_cv": 0.4
  },
  "issues": [
    {
      "id": "p3-001",
      "category": "stability",
      "rule_ref": "CRAFT §7 real cost",
      "severity": "blocker",
      "quote": "…",
      "suggestion": "…"
    }
  ]
}

6. Loop control
   • blocker / major → reviser must fix; re-run failed passes
   • All three passes status: pass → set scene frontmatter status: reviewed
   • Update plot-ledger.md beat row when the scene completes its assigned beat

Revise role (same agent or drafting agent)

Apply only listed issues. No new subplots. Re-emit scene; re-request review.

Gates

• Handoff JSON written under reviews/
• No net-new plot invented in review comments (suggestions only)
• Stability 7 checked explicitly in Pass 3 output
• Scene status advanced only on full pass

Pitfalls

• Softening the draft further ("make nicer") — that is the stability trap
• Reviewing without ledger (misses foreshadow / beat skips)
• Merging draft + review in one generation call