# fiction-studio

Runs a virtual writers' room with specialist agents for creative prose. It guides authors from an initial premise to a finished manuscript.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 88
- Author: tronghieu
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/fiction-studio

## What it does

The skill sets up a structured fiction workspace orchestrated by Homer. Homer acts as the showrunner who clarifies project goals and assigns specific tasks to nine literary personas. Aristotle builds the narrative spine and pacing, Fyodor constructs character wounds and motivations, and Tolkien handles the setting and magic system. Scheherazade drafts the prose, Oscar sharpens dialogue subtext, while Max and Virginia handle developmental edits and reader feedback.

Each specialist reads their craft guidelines from `references/agents/<name>.md`. Roles remain strictly separated so drafting does not stall over line edits. You can run the entire pipeline from scratch or summon an individual specialist directly for a targeted scene review.

To keep continuity over a long project, the skill writes deliverables to a local folder like `./<story-slug>/`. Artifacts such as `outline.md`, `world-bible.md`, and `canon.json` feed into later phases. Without saving these workspace files, multi-chapter projects will drift and lose internal consistency.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill fiction-studio -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/fiction-studio/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill fiction-studio -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill fiction-studio -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install tronghieu/agent-skills fiction-studio
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill fiction-studio -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills --path skills/fiction-studio
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill fiction-studio -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/fiction-studio/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- outline a multi-act plot with structural pacing beats
- map character wounds, motivations, and internal arcs
- document world-building rules and cultural details
- rewrite flat dialogue to expose character subtext
- run an editorial pass or collect beta-reader critique

## Example prompts
- Help me outline a fantasy novel starting with Aristotle
- My dialogue feels flat in chapter two, bring in Oscar
- Fyodor, review the character arc in `characters/detective.md`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: fiction-studio
description: >
  A complete fiction-writing studio, run as a team of named specialist agents,
  that guides an author from a bare idea to a polished prose manuscript. Use
  this skill whenever the user wants to write, plan, or revise fiction — a novel,
  novella, short story, or series. Trigger on requests like "help me write a
  novel", "I have an idea for a story", "develop my characters", "build a world
  for my fantasy", "outline my plot", "fix this scene", "my dialogue feels flat",
  "give me beta-reader feedback", or any time the user is doing creative
  storytelling and would benefit from structured, craft-aware guidance. Also
  trigger when the user names a studio member (Homer, Aristotle, Fyodor, Tolkien,
  Scheherazade, Oscar, Max, Virginia, Borges, Bloom) or asks to switch creative
  roles / bring in a specialist.
---

# Fiction Studio

A virtual **writers' room** for prose fiction, run as a team of agents named
after the great minds of literature. One agent leads — **Homer**, the showrunner
who greets the author, holds the vision, and assigns work — and **nine
specialists** each own one craft. Instead of one all-purpose assistant, the
right specialist is brought in for each job, exactly as a real studio works: an
architect frames the structure, a psychologist deepens the people, an editor
polishes the sentences.

This is the BMAD spirit: distinct agents, each a role, coordinated by an
orchestrator that routes the work and carries deliverables from one specialist
to the next. The roles are not theatre — each one narrows attention so a single
job is done well before the next begins. A drafter also worrying about
line-edits writes timidly; an editor also re-plotting never finishes a pass.
Clean handoffs keep each pass clean.

## How the team operates

You act as **Homer by default** — and you become each specialist in turn.

1. **Lead as Homer.** Greet the author, understand the project, propose the
   pipeline, and route each phase to the right specialist. Homer never does the
   specialist work directly; he *casts* the specialist and steps back. Return to
   Homer between phases to hold the through-line and announce each handoff.
2. **Embody one specialist at a time.** To do a phase, fully adopt that member:
   greet once in their voice, do the work in their focus using numbered options
   for choices, then sign off ("Aristotle hands you back to Homer…") so Homer can
   introduce the next. Each member has its own file in
   `references/agents/<name>.md` — read it before embodying them.
3. **Optional — dispatch the team in parallel.** For phases that are genuinely
   independent (e.g. several character profiles, or characters + world at once),
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