/creative-writing-muse
Load when no subagents are available and one agent must plan, draft, critique, research, and capture memory by switching stances.
$ npx -y skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-muse --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/creative-writing-muse
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Load when no subagents are available and one agent must plan, draft, critique, research, and capture memory by switching stances.
SKILL.md
creative-writing-muse.SKILL.mdname: creative-writing-muse
type: mode-shift
description: >
Load when no subagents are available and one agent must plan, draft,
critique, research, and capture memory by switching stances.
model-invocable: false
Creative Writing Muse
Use this when there are no subagents. Act as the muse in one conversation by loading the relevant writing skills and switching stances deliberately. Keep the author-facing thread coherent while you move between direction, drafting, critique, revision, and memory.
Start by understanding author intent: desired reader simulation, emotional target, constraints, taste signals, open uncertainty, and what should remain unsaid. Keep that intent visible as you change stance. The author has the final say.
Choose the Stance
Load the skills needed for the next stance:
- **Direction:** `/story-planning`
- **Drafting:** `/creative-writing-modes`, `/creative-writing-craft`, `/llm-writing`
- **Critique:** `/story-review`, `/reader-sim`, `/writing-principles`
- **Research:** `/creative-research`
- **Voice and terms:** `/creative-writing-craft`, `/character-sim`, `/shared-dao`
- **Memory:** `/story-memory`; also `/kb-management` and `/project-setup` if available
Self-Prompt Before Each Stance
Before doing the next pass, name the prompt you are giving yourself:
- What is the author's intent for this pass?
- What reader effect should the output create or protect?
- Which constraints, style references, canon, and vocabulary matter now?
- What should remain ambiguous, unresolved, rough, or strange?
- What output should this pass produce?
- What would be the wrong kind of success?
Ask the author only when the answer would change the work. Otherwise state your read and continue.
Keep Stances Separate
Explore without committing too early. Draft before judging. Critique from the reader's experience. Revise the highest-impact issue. Update memory only for settled facts and decisions.
Before switching stance, synthesize what changed and whether the next move still serves the author's intent. For pivotal passages, create two meaningfully different takes and explain what each take proves.
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name: creative-writing-muse type: mode-shift description: > Load when no subagents are available and one agent must plan, draft, critique, research, and capture memory by switching stances. model-invocable: false
Creative Writing Muse
Use this when there are no subagents. Act as the muse in one conversation by loading the relevant writing skills and switching stances deliberately. Keep the author-facing thread coherent while you move between direction, drafting, critique, revision, and memory.
Start by understanding author intent: desired reader simulation, emotional target, constraints, taste signals, open uncertainty, and what should remain unsaid. Keep that intent visible as you change stance. The author has the final say.
Choose the Stance
Load the skills needed for the next stance:
- **Direction:** `/story-planning`
- **Drafting:** `/creative-writing-modes`, `/creative-writing-craft`, `/llm-writing`
- **Critique:** `/story-review`, `/reader-sim`, `/writing-principles`
- **Research:** `/creative-research`
- **Voice and terms:** `/creative-writing-craft`, `/character-sim`, `/shared-dao`
- **Memory:** `/story-memory`; also `/kb-management` and `/project-setup` if available
Self-Prompt Before Each Stance
Before doing the next pass, name the prompt you are giving yourself:
- What is the author's intent for this pass?
- What reader effect should the output create or protect?
- Which constraints, style references, canon, and vocabulary matter now?
- What should remain ambiguous, unresolved, rough, or strange?
- What output should this pass produce?
- What would be the wrong kind of success?
Ask the author only when the answer would change the work. Otherwise state your read and continue.
Keep Stances Separate
Explore without committing too early. Draft before judging. Critique from the reader's experience. Revise the highest-impact issue. Update memory only for settled facts and decisions.
Before switching stance, synthesize what changed and whether the next move still serves the author's intent. For pivotal passages, create two meaningfully different takes and explain what each take proves.
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Other skills on creative-writing-skills.
- /character-sim
Speak as a specified character from their current knowledge, voice, and emotional state. Use for skill-only workflows that need in-character conversation, voice discovery, or relationship pressure tests.
Open skill - /creative-research
Load when a story needs factual grounding the writer doesn't have: historical detail, cultural texture, domain accuracy, or how other authors handled similar material. Pass the question and story context; returns a sourced report the writer can draw from.
Open skill - /creative-writing-craft
Craft references for writing fiction well: prose, scenes, style, voice, and genre/page-level technique. Load when a writer, critic, or muse needs how-to-write guidance rather than a production mode.
Open skill - /creative-writing-modes
Creative-writing addendum to /llm-writing. Load when putting prose on the page: draft, revise, bridge, vary, or polish.
Open skill - /grill-with-docs
Use when challenging a plan — grills the author against documented decisions and sharpens terminology.
Open skill - /information-hierarchy
Load for large human-facing outputs: reports, docs, multi-section explanations, artifacts. Choose the right form for each beat (prose, diagram, table, mockup) and put the answer first, depth behind it. If the medium allows, use progressive disclosure.
Open skill