writing-staffing
Writing Staffing
Compose the right team for each writing task. The goal is coverage across perspectives — critics with different focus areas, researchers with different scopes, brainstormers exploring different angles — not redundant passes from the same angle.
General Principles
Delegation keeps context clean. Each mode of work benefits from a fresh context window and different model strengths — drafting needs voice fidelity, critique needs adversarial distance, research needs breadth. Orchestrators coordinate mode-switches through agents. If no team composition was provided by your caller, compose one yourself before starting — use the catalogs in the resources below.
Review convergence. Critic loops run until convergence (no new substantive findings), not a fixed number of passes. The orchestrator can stop early, but must log the reasoning in the decision log so future agents understand what was decided and why.
Brainstorm diversity over brainstorm volume. Three brainstormers exploring different angles beats five exploring the same angle. Creative diversity comes from different perspectives, not more of the same perspective.
Style creation and style evaluation are separate modes. Creating style reference files from sample prose is an analytical task. Evaluating whether a draft maintains the project's voice is a critique task with voice focus. Use the right mode for each — see the agent catalogs in resources.
Effort Scaling
Effort scaling applies mainly to critics — the role that fans out within a draft/revise cycle. Writers don't scale within a phase (one writer per scene/chapter; split the brief if it's too big).
More from haowjy/creative-writing-skills
cw-prose-writing
Creative writing skill for drafting and editing narrative fiction prose. Use when writing new scenes, chapters, or dialogue, or when editing existing prose. Discovers and follows project-specific style guides, character voice conventions, and formatting preferences.
257prose-writing
Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction. Use when writing or revising prose — the sentence-level and paragraph-level craft that pulls readers into the story. Project-specific voice comes from style files passed alongside this skill.
179story-architecture
Arc structure, narrative design, and pacing at multiple scales — saga, arc, chapter, scene. Use when structuring story at any level, planning arcs, designing chapter outlines, or evaluating whether narrative structure serves the story's goals.
178brainstorming
Story brainstorming capture — minimal notes that preserve creative freedom. Use when exploring narrative ideas, discussing characters, planning chapters, or thinking through story possibilities.
158cw-brainstorming
Creative writing skill for capturing story brainstorming. Use when the user is exploring narrative ideas, discussing characters, planning episodes, or thinking through story possibilities. Creates minimal working notes that preserve creative freedom by recording only what was stated and marking sources.
154prose-critique
Adversarial reading methodology for narrative fiction — find what doesn't work, not confirm what does. Focus-area driven with dedicated resources per area. Use when reviewing drafts, evaluating prose quality, or assessing changes at any stage.
143