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claude-plugins/fiction-assistance/commands/check-continuity.md
movq 6e4edc09d1 refactor(fiction-assistance)!: reduce to portable guidance and analysis (v2.0.0)
Strip the Universalis-specific vault layout and card-management
machinery. The plugin is now a general-purpose fiction toolkit:
nine commands that take a manuscript path/glob/selection via
\$ARGUMENTS and write their output to the conversation.

Surviving commands, flattened into commands/:
- analyze-story: structural and statistical analysis
- bechdel-test: representation tests (Bechdel + related)
- check-continuity: plot/character/world continuity
- check-voice: per-character voice consistency
- developmental-review: structural feedback on a scene/chapter
- extract-research: world-building and research inventory
- final-review: synthesis of prior-phase reviews
- generate-timeline: chronology with consistency checks
- strategic-review: craft-based critique with priority ranking

Removed (vault and card management): 10 update-*-cards commands,
cleanup-generated, update-changed, update-links,
update-chapter-summaries, validate-story, validate-pdf, score-scenes.
The original bespoke command set is preserved in 65c29d7 for recovery.

Agent (line-editor) and skill (reviewing-fiction) were already
portable and are unchanged. plugin.json no longer needs the
commands subdirectory paths since the layout is flat. Marketplace
description updated to reflect the general-purpose scope.

BREAKING CHANGE: All update-*-cards, cleanup-generated, update-changed,
update-links, update-chapter-summaries, validate-story, validate-pdf,
and score-scenes commands are removed. perform-bechdel-tests is renamed
to bechdel-test. review-final is renamed to final-review.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-16 18:28:53 -05:00

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Check a manuscript for continuity problems — plot holes, character inconsistencies, world-building contradictions [path, glob, or selection]
Read
Glob
Grep

Read the manuscript at $ARGUMENTS (a file, a glob of chapters, or pasted text) and identify continuity issues. Report what you find directly to the conversation.

What to check

Character consistency

  • Traits and personality — does the character act consistently across scenes?
  • Physical description — height, eye color, age, scars, clothing — any contradictions?
  • Knowledge — do they know something in chapter 4 that they shouldn't learn until chapter 7?
  • Relationships — do established relationships develop consistently or shift without cause?
  • Speech patterns — does their voice stay recognizable?
  • Motivations — do their goals stay aligned with what's been established?

World-building consistency

  • Rules of the universe — physics, magic, technology limits, social structures
  • Geography and locations — distances, layouts, travel times
  • History and timeline — past events referenced consistently
  • Cultural and political details — group behaviors, hierarchies, allegiances

Plot logic

  • Information flow — how does each character learn what they know? Track it
  • Cause and effect — does each consequence have a setup?
  • Object and detail persistence — items, wounds, weather, time of day
  • Pacing of revelations — anything resolved before it was a problem, or set up and never paid off

Output format

For each issue found:

  • Type (character / world / plot)
  • Location (chapter/scene, with quoted context where possible)
  • Issue (what contradicts what, with both references)
  • Severity (minor — reader probably won't catch / moderate — attentive readers will / major — breaks the story)
  • Suggested fix (a concrete option, not just "address this")

Close with a short summary of the most load-bearing issues — the three to five the writer should fix first.