Reverse Outliner

If you've ever wanted to understand how a published book actually works under the hood, this pulls apart the construction. It segments novels into chapters and scenes, runs goal/conflict/disaster analysis on each beat, detects the elemental genre and maps key story moments, then tracks character arcs through the whole thing. You end up with a markdown outline that shows the skeleton beneath the prose. The state machine walks you from raw text through segmentation, scene analysis, genre detection, and character tracking until you have a complete structural breakdown. Built for studying craft from masters or creating teaching materials, though it's honest about what it won't do: judge quality or generate original content.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill reverse-outliner --agent claude-code