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story-import (Reverse-import an existing novel)

Turns an existing novel manuscript — finished or in progress — into a structured, continuable writing project.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 7,438⑂ 1,067AI score 9/10Last updated: Oct 10, 2026

What it does

  • Ingests your manuscript (a single .txt/.md file, a folder of chapter files, or pasted text), auto-splits chapters, and routes long-form vs. short-form.
  • Reuses the story-long-analyze / story-short-analyze breakdown pipeline for deep analysis, then migrates the results into a real project tree (settings, manuscript, outlines, tracking).
  • For long novels it reverse-engineers per-chapter outlines in batches and initializes character/foreshadowing tracking with the bundled scripts/tracking_commit.py.
  • Keeps an import log on disk so the job survives context resets — say "continue import" in a fresh chat and it resumes from the first unfinished step.

Who it's for

  • Web-novel and serial authors who want AI help continuing a book they've already started.
  • Writers with pages but no bible, outline, or continuity tracking.
  • Existing users of the oh-story skill suite (/story-setup, /story-long-write).

Examples

  1. "Import my 180-chapter .txt" → confirms volume splits, builds settings/outlines/tracking, ready to draft chapter 181.
  2. "Import these three short stories" → takes the short-form branch and produces only three single files, skipping long-form directories.
  3. "My last chapter is half-written" → it asks whether to continue from the fragment or finish it first, records the decision, and proceeds.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  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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Copy the skills/story-import folder from the GitHub repo zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode into my ~/.claude/skills/story-import/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r oh-story-claudecode/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Open a terminal in your working directory.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skills: cp -r oh-story-claudecode/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/ (copy them all — story-import depends on story-setup and the analyze skills).
  5. Open Claude Code inside your novel project folder and run /story-setup first to deploy the writing agents.
  6. Start a fresh session and run /story-import (or say "import my novel"), then give the path to your manuscript.
  7. Answer the step-by-step confirmation questions; if the session ends mid-way, open a new chat and say "continue import".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT