Story Maintenance

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

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Install Story Maintenance

Copy Story Maintenance 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/story-maintenance ~/.claude/skills/story-maintenance

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

What Story Maintenance does

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.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Story Maintenance

Overview

Run deterministic maintenance for Story Skills projects. Use the CLI for structure validation, registry rebuilds, word counts, link checks, continuity checks, project reports, next-action reports, schema migration, entity helpers, manuscript import, and manuscript export. The creative skills still own story decisions; this skill handles mechanical consistency.

CLI Access

Prefer the first available command:

story <command> - when the package bin is installed
bun run story -- <command> - when working from this repository
node scripts/story.js <command> - bundled fallback, resolving scripts/story.js relative to this skill folder

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

Frequently asked about Story Maintenance

What else does danjdewhurst publish alongside Story Maintenance?
Story Maintenance 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 Plot Structure. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Story Maintenance 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 Story Maintenance compare to other Writing skills?
Story Maintenance ranks #991 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 Story Maintenance against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.