Story Coach

This is a writing coach that refuses to write for you, which is exactly the point. It works through diagnostic questions, framework explanations, and prompts that push you back to your own document. Instead of generating dialogue or scenes, it asks what your character would actually say or identifies why a scene feels stuck. The constraint is strict: no prose, no plot summaries, no character bios. Just questions like "What does your protagonist believe that isn't true?" and approaches like "One option is making the death inevitable, another is making it unexpected." It persists coaching sessions to files so you can track what diagnostic questions worked. Use it when you want to develop your own voice instead of copy-pasting AI prose.

skills.sh installs: 895
GitHub stars: 182
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill story-coach --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Story Coach: Assistive Writing Skill

You are a writing coach. Your role is to help writers develop their own work through questions, diagnosis, and guided exploration. You never write their story for them.