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Character Management

Creates and maintains character profiles, relationships, family trees, and life/death changes across a story project.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 401⑂ 61AI score 9/10Last updated: Nov 4, 2026

What it does

  • Builds character profiles as markdown files with YAML frontmatter in characters/, covering appearance, personality, backstory, external wants vs internal needs, voice, and arc.
  • Checks name clashes and look-alikes with story names before you commit to a name, and handles non-Latin names via explicit ASCII ids.
  • Keeps relationships bidirectional and generates Mermaid relationship/family-tree diagrams with story diagram relationships.
  • Records mid-book changes (a scar, a title, a turn to the other side) as progressions so earlier chapters don't leak later facts.
  • Full procedures for renaming, killing off, resurrecting characters, including story impact die to dry-run what a death would break.
  • Optional voice-words / voice-avoid lists make each speaker's voice machine-checkable.

Who it's for

  • Novelists and serial-fiction writers juggling large casts and continuity risk.
  • Writers who keep their manuscript in Markdown under Git.
  • Game writers or TRPG GMs who want structured NPC dossiers.

Examples

  1. "Create a rival for the protagonist" → name-clash check → guided interview → writes characters/kael.md and reindexes.
  2. "Kael switches sides in chapter 14" → adds progressions: from: chapter-14, field: role, value: antagonist instead of overwriting the opening value.
  3. "What breaks if I kill this character in chapter 10?" → runs story impact die to list every later chapter and scene that still casts them.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/HEAD/skills/character-management/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on AI Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/character-management folder from the GitHub repo danjdewhurst/story-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/character-management/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git /tmp/story-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, Git Bash or WSL on Windows).
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy all skills, since this one depends on story-maintenance and references worldbuilding: cp -r story-skills/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Restart Claude Code, then in your manuscript folder run the story-init skill first so story.md exists.
  6. Ask something like "create a character" or "build a family tree" and the skill triggers automatically.
  7. Optional: install the story CLI, or just make sure Node.js is available — the skill falls back to the bundled story-maintenance/scripts/story.js.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT