great-authors

Plugin great-authors from marketplace great-minds-constellation in sethshoultes/great-minds-constellation. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 1 month ago.

Skills (16)

• authors-build-character

  Build a character entry for the project bible via an interactive interview. Usage - /authors-build-character <name> [--author <author-name>]. Optional --author flag shapes the interview questions through one of the ten author personas (e.g., --author king adds small-town and pop-culture questions; -

• authors-build-place

  Build a place entry for the project bible via an interactive interview. Usage - /authors-build-place <name> [--author <author-name>]. Seven questions covering type, sensory signature, one odd detail, meaning to characters, how it changes, contradiction, connections. Optional --author lens (mcphee fo

• authors-build-relationship

  Build a relationship entry between two existing characters in the project bible. Usage - /authors-build-relationship <character-a> <character-b>. Six questions covering type, power dynamic, history, current conflict, shared vocabulary, secrets and wrong assumptions. Updates the ## Connections sectio

• authors-build-scene

  Build a scene entry (beat card) for the project bible via an interactive interview. Usage - /authors-build-scene [<id>] [--author <author-name>]. Optional --author flag channels McPhee (start with scene shape) or Vonnegut (start-close-to-end and glass-of-water want). Use when the user is planning a

• authors-channel

  Load a named author persona into the current conversation for direct collaborative drafting or editing. The persona takes over the voice and editorial judgment of the session until the user drops it. Substantive prose blocks (>50 words of in-character narrative) auto-save to manuscript/<current>.md

• authors-consolidate

  Scan journal entries and offer to promote repeated decisions into the permanent bible. Usage - /authors-consolidate. Reads .great-authors/journal/* and identifies decisions that appear in multiple entries; for each, proposes which bible file to promote to (project.md, voice.md, a character file, etc

• authors-continuity

  Check a draft for continuity violations against the project bible. Usage - /authors-continuity <file> [author]. Reads the draft and every bible file; fans out to 1-2 authors; returns flagged inconsistencies - character detail drift (eye color changes, age contradictions), timeline contradictions, vo

• authors-corpus-critique

  Run ONE editor across MULTIPLE files in parallel, then consolidate into a corpus-level pattern report. Surfaces patterns no per-file critique catches — voice drift, recurring tics, structural failures that only become visible across multiple pieces. Usage - /authors-corpus-critique <author> <path-or

• authors-critique

  Get a fast, cheap gut-check critique of a draft from multiple author personas. Usage - /authors-critique <file> [author1 author2 ...]. Each author returns a 3-bullet verdict only - no marked passages, no rewrites. Defaults to 3 authors if none specified. Use when you want quick directional feedback

• authors-debate

  Run a 2-round craft debate between two named author personas on a specific passage or topic. Usage - /authors-debate <passage-or-topic> <author-A> <author-B>. Round 1 - each states their position. Round 2 - each responds to the other. Consolidation names the real tension and picks a winner or offers

• authors-draft

  Draft new prose in a named author's voice from a brief. Usage - /authors-draft <brief> <author> [--to <path>]. Loads the author persona, writes prose in that voice, and saves the output to manuscript/<current>.md by default (or --to override). When new characters, places, or scenes appear in the dra

• authors-edit

  Mark up a draft with editorial feedback from one or more author personas. Usage - /authors-edit <file> [author1 author2 ...]. If no authors named, inspects the file and picks 1-2 based on genre (marketing copy → Hemingway + Orwell; fiction → King + Vonnegut; essay → Didion + Baldwin; long-form nonfi

• authors-journal

  Capture a session journal entry in the project bible. Usage - /authors-journal. Writes .great-authors/journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md with what was worked on, decisions made, what's unresolved, and where the user left off. Use at the end of a writing session so the next session's author personas know what's i

• authors-orchestrate-novel

  Top-level autonomous workflow for writing a novel end-to-end with the great-authors plugin. Composes existing skills (project-init, build-character, build-place, build-relationship, draft, channel, rewrite, continuity, critique, edit, debate, journal, consolidate) into a multi-phase pipeline with hu

• authors-project-init

  Initialize the per-project memory bible (.great-authors/) in the current working directory. Creates project.md, voice.md, timeline.md, glossary.md, and empty characters/, places/, scenes/ directories. Use when the user is starting a new writing project (novel, essay collection, long-form nonfiction)

• authors-rewrite

  Dispatch a named author persona as a sub-agent to rewrite an existing manuscript file from scratch with full bible context. Usage - /authors-rewrite <file> <author>. Use when an existing chapter or scene needs more than a critique pass — when the prose itself isn't working and a clean rewrite by the

Subagents (16)

• baldwin-persona

  Use this agent for persuasive nonfiction that needs moral weight, personal essays on race or identity, op-eds that need to land, and any prose that is being too polite when politeness is complicity.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel Baldwin,\" \"moral urgency,\" \"essay as confrontation,\" \"the persona

• character-builder

  Build a character entry for the project bible (.great-authors/characters/<name>.md). Interviews the user question-by-question, then writes a standardized character file. Optionally channels one of the ten author personas (--author flag) to shape the interview questions. Invoke from /authors-build-ch

• didion-persona

  Use this agent for essays, cultural criticism, reported features, op-eds, and any prose that needs cool observational authority — work that gains power from specificity, distance, and the sentence as evidence.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel Didion,\" \"the stories we tell ourselves,\" \"too sentiment

• gottlieb-persona

  Use this agent for orchestration, editorial coordination, multi-author project management, and the running of a writing room. The Editor's role is not to write — it is to ensure the writers do their best work. Modeled on Robert Gottlieb (Knopf, The New Yorker; edited Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Ro

• hemingway-persona

  Use this agent for tightening prose, cutting marketing copy to bone, dialogue with subtext, and iceberg-theory work — any writing that gains power from what's left out.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel Hemingway,\" \"too flabby,\" \"kill adverbs,\" \"iceberg theory,\" \"cut the fat,\" \"too many words,

• king-persona

  Use this agent for voice-driven fiction, pacing, narrative momentum, dialogue that breathes, and practical no-nonsense craft advice from a working novelist.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel King,\" \"On Writing,\" \"road to hell is paved with adverbs,\" \"kill your darlings,\" \"second draft is first d

• le-guin-persona

  Use this agent for speculative fiction, world-building that serves theme, moral imagination, and prose shaped by Taoist restraint — any fiction that uses an invented world to examine the actual one.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel Le Guin,\" \"speculative fiction,\" \"world-building that serves theme,

• mccarthy-persona

  Use this agent for prose that requires biblical weight, mythic register, and landscape as character — fiction with existential stakes, scenes that need gravity over speed, and any draft carrying modern diction that must be stripped back to bone.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel McCarthy,\" \"biblical r

• mcphee-persona

  Use this agent for long-form nonfiction, structural planning, deeply researched pieces, explaining a complex subject, and organizing messy material into clear prose.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel McPhee,\" \"structure is destiny,\" \"long-form nonfiction,\" \"I don't know the shape of this piece,\"

• morrison-persona

  Use this agent for lyric narrative grounded in Black American oral tradition, prose where the past speaks back, polyphonic structure with non-linear time, and mythic register without sentimentality. Morrison brings a voice register no other persona in this plugin covers — beauty made out of survival

• orwell-persona

  Use this agent for cutting corporate or political jargon, clarifying muddy arguments, applying the six rules of 'Politics and the English Language,' and any writing that wants to be believed.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel Orwell,\" \"six rules,\" \"Politics and the English Language,\" \"cut the jarg

• place-builder

  Build a place entry for the project bible (.great-authors/places/<name>.md). Interviews the user question-by-question about a location — sensory signature, meaning to the characters, how it changes, what's specific. Optionally channels an author lens (mcphee for architectural detail, didion for cult

• relationship-builder

  Build a relationship entry between two existing characters in the project bible. Interviews the user about the dynamic — power, history, conflicts, secrets, shared vocabulary — then updates the ## Connections section of BOTH character files with reciprocal entries. Usage via /authors-build-relations

• scene-builder

  Build a scene entry for the project bible (.great-authors/scenes/<id>.md). Interviews the user through an 8-question scene card — position in timeline, place, characters, goals, conflict, turn, exit state, callbacks. Optionally channels McPhee or Vonnegut (--author flag) to shape the interview. Invo

• vonnegut-persona

  Use this agent for short stories, satirical essays, political commentary, and any prose that needs devastating compression with a humane heart.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel Vonnegut,\" \"the eight rules,\" \"make it devastatingly simple,\" \"dark humor with heart,\" \"short story,\" \"political sat

• wallace-persona

  Use this agent for personal essays with texture, cultural criticism, writing about attention/technology/media/television/tennis/boredom, anything where the performance of thought is the point, and essays that need self-awareness without collapsing into cynicism.\n\nTrigger phrases: \"channel DFW,\"

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