Scene Splitter

Takes a plain English story and produces a numbered list of scenes — each scene being one moment that gets exactly one illustration and one narration clip downstream.

This is the upstream spine of the AI Storybook pipeline. Splitting once here and feeding both the illustrator and the narrator from the same {slug}_scenes.json keeps everything in lockstep: image N pairs with audio N pairs with paragraph N. No drift, no negotiation between skills.

When this skill applies

The user has an English story and wants to prepare it for the illustration + narration pipeline. Common phrasings: "split this into scenes", "break this into pages", "prepare this story for the storybook", "make scenes for illustration".

The skill does NOT apply to:

• Stories that need only narration OR only images standalone (the illustrator and narrator can split on their own when used independently)
• Non-narrative content (essays, instructions, lists)

Architectural rule: one scene = one moment = one image = one narration clip

A scene is a single moment that fits one illustration. Operationally, a new scene starts at any of: