zy-zmc/tianming-skill

TianMing is a structured system for co-writing long-form novels with Claude, designed primarily for Chinese-language fiction. The README is mostly in Chinese, but the project description and structure are clear enough to summarize. The name means "destiny" or "fate," and the project originated as a single 995-line prompt that was later reorganized into more than 30 separate files. The core idea is a division of labor: the writer provides the creative vision, world rules, character details, and writing style samples, while the system handles consistency across chapters, tracks plot threads, controls pacing, and keeps the writing style stable over a long work. You interact with the system using short bracketed commands like "TianMing: outline" or "TianMing: main text," and it loads only the relevant internal rules for that task rather than everything at once, which reduces wasted tokens. The workflow follows a fixed order. You start by generating a high-level outline, then a full-book strategic plan, then a chapter-by-chapter table of contents in batches of 30, and finally the actual chapter text at 3,500 to 4,000 words per chapter. There are also commands for running a consistency health check and saving structured updates to the world state file. The repository includes templates for the five knowledge base documents a writer fills in before starting: world rules, character profiles, timeline events, and writing style samples. A small five-chapter example novel called "Promise in the Mirror" demonstrates the system in practice. Two utility scripts are included: a PowerShell linter that checks that all internal cross-references between protocol files are valid, and a Python script that calculates a numeric conflict intensity score for planning chapter tension. The project is licensed for non-commercial use only.