What problem does it solve?
This Skill detects cross-chapter inconsistencies that can break narrative logic, weaken reader trust, or create avoidable plot holes in fiction manuscripts.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Character Consistency: Verifies descriptions, personalities, relationships, names, abilities, and knowledge across chapters.
- Timeline and Setting Validation: Checks event order, dates, character ages, locations, distances, seasons, and world-building rules.
- Plot and Factual Review: Identifies contradictions, unresolved subplots, inaccurate numbers, broken foreshadowing, and violations of established story rules.
- Structured Reporting: Produces severity-rated issue reports with locations, explanations, suggested fixes, general recommendations, and an overall consistency score.
- Use Case: Review a completed novel against its character bible and timeline, then send targeted correction requests to the responsible writer for major continuity problems.
Quick Start
Use the continuity-checking skill to review the manuscript for character, timeline, setting, plot, and factual inconsistencies and return the required JSON report.