Chapter Skeleton

Chapter Skeleton is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by WILLOSCAR in research-units-pipeline-skills.

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Install Chapter Skeleton

Copy Chapter Skeleton into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills/tree/main/.codex/skills/chapter-skeleton ~/.claude/skills/chapter-skeleton

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .codex/skills/chapter-skeleton/SKILL.md in WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/chapter-skeleton
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Chapter Skeleton does

Chapter Skeleton builds a retrieval-informed chapter outline from taxonomy and scope before detailed subsection decomposition. Use it when chapter-level structure should be stabilized first.

Chapter Skeleton is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Chapter Skeleton comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, codex, gpt and pipeline.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Chapter Skeleton

Create outline/chapter_skeleton.refined.ok only after reviewing a manually refined skeleton. A changed taxonomy, goal, or generator invalidates the marker; reruns then back up and rebuild the skeleton.

Load Order

Always read:

references/overview.md

Use scripts/run.py only for deterministic materialization:

read outline/taxonomy.yml for retrieval-informed topic structure
read GOAL.md when present for scope hints
emit outline/chapter_skeleton.yml
preserve reviewed user work only through the current explicit refinement marker

Inputs

outline/taxonomy.yml
Optional: GOAL.md

Outputs

outline/chapter_skeleton.yml

Asset contract

assets/output_contract.json

Script

Quick Start

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Chapter Skeleton

What else does WILLOSCAR publish alongside Chapter Skeleton?
Chapter Skeleton is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Survey Corpus, Anchor Sheet and Appendix Table Writer. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Chapter Skeleton does, and is maintained by WILLOSCAR in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the WILLOSCAR/research-units-pipeline-skills page.
How does Chapter Skeleton compare to other Writing skills?
Chapter Skeleton ranks #819 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Chapter Skeleton against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.