expand-sections

What problem does it solve?

Expands a stabilized beat backbone into concrete section outline files so authors and story architects can move from high-level beats to a navigable section architecture without manual, repetitive breakdown work. It ensures generated sections respect the story's continuity and beat stability status and prevents premature authoritative expansion when beats remain exploratory.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Beat stability gating: refuses or warns when beats are Exploratory or Provisional, enforcing editorial guardrails.
• Range and scope handling: generate individual sections, numeric ranges, or auto-detect the next missing batch of outlines.
• Context-aware generation: reads beats, story concept, characters, world rules, and continuity; chooses parallel or sequential generation for adjacent sections; and updates the section_map.md.
• Use Case: Turn a stabilized 15-beat backbone into a set of section_[N]_outline.md files and an updated section_map.md ready for drafting with /write-section.

Quick Start

Ask the assistant to run expand-sections mybook 1-5 to generate outlines for sections 1 through 5.