Stage Chapters

Turns your git branch into a narrative code review by clustering related hunks across files into coherent chapters, each with a summary and flagged judgment calls. It wraps stagereview's prep and show commands, generating a structured story from your diff that opens in a browser SPA. The clustering logic is smart about grouping moves and refactors together rather than splitting them into separate deletions and additions, and it enforces that every hunk appears exactly once. Most useful when you want a reviewer to understand the why and flow of a feature branch, not just see a flat diff. The chapter ordering puts foundation changes first, then core logic, then integration.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add reviewstage/stage-cli --skill stage-chapters --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

stage-chapters

Generates a Stage chapter run for the current local git branch and opens it in a browser. Uses stagereview prep to compute the diff, then generates chapters and a prologue, and hands the result to stagereview show to launch the SPA.

Prerequisites

Run these checks before any other work. If either fails, stop with the error message — do not continue.

stagereview is installed. Run which stagereview. If it exits non-zero, instruct the user:

stagereview is not installed. Run:

    npm install -g stagereview

Then retry /stage-chapters.

Stop.

The current directory is a git repo. Run git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree. If it does not print true, stop with:
```
/stage-chapters must be run inside a git repository.
```