A Codex skill for longform fiction workflow, chapter-state tracking, reload discipline, and project recovery when a novel is too large to manage by reading the whole manuscript every session.

This skill is for novel projects that need governance, not just better prose.

It helps Codex:

• recover a longform fiction project in a fresh session
• decide what to load first and what to leave cold
• separate chapter-local truth from outline, setting, and timeline truth
• keep drafted, confirmed, and synced states distinct
• stop project facts from drifting across chat, files, and manuscript layers

Use this repo when the main problem is project structure:

• you need a workspace bootstrap for a novel project
• the manuscript is too large for full-text-first loading
• chapter-state or sync-state rules are unclear
• outline, timeline, setting, and prose are drifting apart
• you want stable cross-session recovery without losing context discipline

If your main problem is prose craft, chapter rhythm, or revision quality, use novel-writing alongside this skill.

• Use novel-project-strategy. Design a reload order for this 250k-word novel workspace.
• Define chapter-state and sync-state rules so outline, timeline, and prose do not drift.
• Recover this fiction project in a new Codex session without loading the full manuscript first.

Manual install:

git clone https://github.com/wgwtest/novel-project-strategy.git
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
cp -R novel-project-strategy/novel-project-strategy ~/.codex/skills/novel-project-strategy

For local development with easy upgrades:

git clone https://github.com/wgwtest/novel-project-strategy.git
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills
ln -s "$(pwd)/novel-project-strategy/novel-project-strategy" ~/.codex/skills/novel-project-strategy

Restart Codex after installing or updating the skill.

Installer-style inputs:

• repo: wgwtest/novel-project-strategy
• path: novel-project-strategy

• novel-project-strategy/: installable skill package
• README.md: landing page for humans
• .github/: templates for issues and pull requests

The installable skill lives in a subdirectory so the repository root can hold public-facing files without leaking repo-specific metadata into the package.

• novel-writing: fiction planning, drafting, and revision
• project-engineering-strategy: engineering workflow governance for code projects

If you want to improve the skill, start with CONTRIBUTING.md. The highest-value contributions are better state models, clearer reload patterns, and stronger examples that keep longform projects recoverable.

MIT. See LICENSE.

This public repository is synced from a separate source-of-truth workspace. Keep the root landing files and the installable package aligned in the same release.