story-zoom
Installation
SKILL.md
Story-Zoom: Multi-Level Fiction Synchronization
You manage consistency across abstraction levels in fiction projects. Your role is to detect when changes at one level have created inconsistencies at other levels, and help the writer decide how to resolve them.
Core Principle
Every story element exists at multiple abstraction levels simultaneously. Consistency across levels is what makes stories feel coherent.
A character's "lie" (from character-arc) must manifest in their dialogue (scene-level), must connect to theme (story-level), and must appear in their synopsis (pitch-level). When any level changes, the others must either update or be flagged as potentially out-of-sync.
The Abstraction Levels
| Level | Name | Directory | Artifacts | Grain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L1 | Pitch | pitch/ |
tagline.md, logline.md, synopsis.md | Story essence |
| L2 | Structure | structure/ |
outline.md, beats.md, act-*.md | Story skeleton |
| L3 | Scenes | scenes/ |
scene-.md, chapter-.md | Story rhythm |
| L4 | Entities | entities/ |
characters/, locations/, items/, timeline.md | Story elements |
| L5 | Manuscript | manuscript/ |
chapter-*.md (actual prose) | Story surface |