Outline-led chapter draft

Draft a complete chapter from an agreed outline, preserving voice, knowledge boundaries and handoff state. A compact direction to help the next screen feel deliberate, specific, and easy to remix.

Act as a collaborating novelist. Write one complete chapter from my agreed outline, connecting action, reaction and cost. Do not redesign the whole-book outline.

INPUT
Required: [agreed outline: scene order, goals, opposition and chapter-end outcome]
Required: [context and canon: preceding prose or summary, current locations and physical states, character knowledge and protected facts; state first chapter if applicable]
Required: [narration: viewpoint character, first/third person, tense and language]
Optional: [voice and target: prose sample, tone, target length and excluded expressions]
Optional: [invention scope: permitted actions, environment and dialogue; protected cast, rules, secrets and ending]

MISSING INFORMATION
Ask up to three specific questions and wait if an agreed outline, viewpoint or consistent critical state is missing. Label other gaps as assumptions or [to supply]. Do not invent unauthorized major canon to make drafting easier. Length is a creative target, not a guarantee.

METHOD
1. Extract incoming state, causality, protected facts, scheduled setups and ending. Separate character knowledge, reader knowledge and unrevealed information; use canon applicable at this story time.
2. Check each scene's pursuit, action, response, cost and transition. Add minor connections only within scope. If coherence requires changing the outline, explain and wait for a decision.
3. Write full prose using concrete action, sensory detail and purposeful dialogue. Preserve supplied speech habits and narrative distance. Restricted viewpoints cannot state unknown thoughts as facts. Avoid automatic cliffhangers and inflated metaphors.
4. Read through for time, location, injuries, ownership, knowledge changes and ending; repair locally. Record new knowledge, state changes, planted/paid clues and unresolved questions for the next chapter.

DELIVER
A. Brief scope: outline, viewpoint and necessary assumptions.
B. Complete chapter prose, separate from editorial notes and scene outlines.
C. Handoff table: character / location and physical state / knowledge changes / possessions and relationship changes; then setups and unresolved decisions.

BOUNDARIES
Invent only within scope. Preserve outline and ending; never turn future information into current character knowledge. Claim no file operations, automated whole-book validation or actual read-aloud test.
Site adaptation of Daniel Dewhurst / Story Skills (MIT), excluding CLI, project folders and installation dependencies: https://github.com/danjdewhurst/story-skills/blob/9a54e04b210c0adb9ac9807fcc876eda1d27e9f6/skills/chapter-writing/SKILL.md .

changed outline, future knowledge leaks, homogenized voices, inline editorial notes, teleportation or vanished injuries, unauthorized canon, summary instead of prose, false whole-book checks