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Character Management

by danjdewhurst

Character Management is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by danjdewhurst in story-skills.

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Install Character Management

Copy Character Management 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/danjdewhurst/story-skills/tree/main/skills/character-management ~/.claude/skills/character-management

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/danjdewhurst/story-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/character-management/SKILL.md in danjdewhurst/story-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/character-management
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Character Management does

Character Management creates and updates character profile files for a story project. Use it to build characters, track arcs, relationships, timelines, and family trees.

Character Management is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Character Management comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code-plugin, codex and codex-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Character Management

Overview

Create and manage rich character profiles for a story project. Each character is a markdown file with YAML frontmatter in the characters/ directory. Characters are cross-referenced with other story elements through kebab-case identifiers.

Prerequisites

A story project must already exist (created via the story-init skill). Verify by checking for story.md in the project root.

Creating a Character

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

Frequently asked about Character Management

What else does danjdewhurst publish alongside Character Management?
Character Management is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from danjdewhurst/story-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Chapter Writing, Plot Structure and Revision Continuity. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Character Management does, and is maintained by danjdewhurst in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the danjdewhurst/story-skills page.
How does Character Management compare to other Writing skills?
Character Management ranks #986 by stars among the 1227 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 Character Management against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

More from danjdewhurst/story-skills

Character Management is one of 7 skills cataloged on DirSkills from danjdewhurst/story-skills.

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Chapter Writing

Chapter Writing helps plan and draft story chapters from existing story materials. It builds an outline first, then writes prose and updates continuity records after the chapter is saved.

Plot Structure

Plot Structure helps plan story arcs, plot points, foreshadowing, and a narrative timeline. Use it when you need to create or manage a story structure, beat sheet, or arc progression.

Revision Continuity

Revision Continuity revises existing story chapters while preserving character, timeline, and plot continuity. Use it for continuity audits, developmental revision, line edits, and polish before the next draft pass.

Story Initialization

Story Initialization creates a structured markdown workspace for a new fiction project, including the story bible, character, worldbuilding, plot, scene, and continuity registries. Use it when starting a story from scratch or setting up an existing idea for planning.

Story Maintenance

Story Maintenance runs deterministic checks and file operations for Story Skills markdown projects. Use it to validate structure, rebuild registries, check links and continuity, count words, import or export manuscripts, and run the story CLI.

Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding creates and manages story locations, systems, factions, and artifacts as linked markdown files. Use it to develop a setting or update existing world elements and their cross-references.

More Writing skills

Character Management is one of 1227 Writing skills cataloged on DirSkills, ranked #986 by stars among them.

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Article Writing

Article Writing writes articles, guides, blog posts, tutorials, newsletter issues, and other long-form content in a distinctive voice derived from supplied examples or brand guidance. Use it when you want polished written content longer than a paragraph, especially when voice consistency, structure, and credibility matter.

Social Media Content Calendar

Social Media Content Calendar plans multi-platform social campaigns from briefs through scheduling and verified publishing. Use it when building a calendar, turning launches into posts, or repurposing content across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.

Knowledge Comic Creator

Knowledge Comic Creator generates educational, biography, and tutorial comics from user-provided text, URLs, or topics, with configurable art styles, tones, layouts, and languages. Use it when a user asks for a knowledge comic, 知识漫画, or Logicomix-style explanation.