Plot Structure

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

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Install Plot Structure

Copy Plot Structure 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/plot-structure ~/.claude/skills/plot-structure

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

What Plot Structure does

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.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Plan and manage story arcs, plot points, foreshadowing, and narrative timeline. Each arc is a markdown file in plot/arcs/ with a chronological timeline maintained in plot/timeline.md. The plot index tracks all arcs, their status, and theme coverage.

Prerequisites

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

Choosing a Story Structure

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

Frequently asked about Plot Structure

What else does danjdewhurst publish alongside Plot Structure?
Plot Structure is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from danjdewhurst/story-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Chapter Writing, Character Management and Revision Continuity. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Plot Structure 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 Plot Structure compare to other Writing skills?
Plot Structure ranks #987 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 Plot Structure against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.