The pack had a premise (a few sentences), per-book summaries and a weekly timeline,
but no single spine saying what the main line is and which threads are side stories.
plot.md is the one prose file in DATA/: the author's telling, split into backbone
beats, an explicit side-story register, the verbatim transcription (spoken tellings
are expected - dictating into a note app is often the easiest way to produce a
baseline), deviations once the novel departs from it, and open threads.
The hierarchy is written into the file so it cannot drift: plot.md is INTENT, the
manuscript is REALISED, the wiki is DETAIL; on conflict the agent reports instead of
silently picking. Side stories are first-class - an unregistered thread is invisible
to the agent.
Wired in: SCHEMA (tree, naming table, new 5.4), templates/DATA/plot.md,
OpenNovelAgent load list + read-both-backbone-and-side-stories rule, /init asks for
a spoken telling and scaffolds the file, Importer maps fragments into it,
StoryReviewer measures chapters against it.
One Obsidian vault holds every book; each book is a subfolder and is the opencode
workspace. The pack is shared at the vault root and inherited by walking up, so a
book no longer gets its own .opencode copy:
- SCHEMA §1 rewritten: container vault -> book folders, shared .opencode + docs
- init.md: scaffolds only the book (AGENTS.md, DATA/, 01/), checks that a shared
pack is reachable, and no longer copies agent/command files into the project
- PACK-NOTES: layout diagram + a headless section documenting the deny-based
permission model
OpenNovelAgent and Importer had bash "*": "ask", which opencode cannot prompt for
in `opencode run` — every tool call was auto-rejected, so the pack only worked in
the interactive TUI or with --dangerously-skip-permissions.
Both now allow bash by default and deny the dangerous commands explicitly
(rm -rf, sudo, mkfs, diskutil, shutdown, reboot). The other eight agents keep
bash: "deny" on purpose: they are note-editing subagents that read and write
through opencode's file tools and never need a shell.
Approval is now expressed as denies for the irreversible commands rather than a
gate on every command.
The novel-writing agent pack existed only as three byte-identical copies inside
Obsidian vaults (Die-Kessler-Zwillinge, Scruffy-der-Weltenhund, OpenNovelWriter),
with no version control anywhere. It is now versioned here as the single source
of truth.
Contents (novel/):
- .opencode/agent/ OpenNovelAgent (primary) + LineEditor, Proofreader,
StyleAnalyst, ContinuityEditor, StoryReviewer, Translator, Importer,
Illustrator, CopyrightWatchdog
- .opencode/command/ import.md, init.md
- .opencode/languages.yaml, .opencode/opencode.json (pristine: default_agent)
- docs/SCHEMA.md canonical schema — the newer OpenNovelWriter revision, which
supersedes the stale copy in the Scruffy vault (adds workspace = book,
images/prompts + images/generated, parallel books, rewrites section 7)
- templates/ AGENTS.md placeholder + DATA/{wiki,timeline,glossary}.yaml.md, style.md
- sync-to-vault.sh dry-run by default; --apply backs up what it replaces and
never touches DATA/, AGENTS.md, chapters or a vault's own opencode.json
- PACK-NOTES.md per-file md5 provenance and the verified cross-vault comparison
Verified before committing: all 10 agents, both commands, languages.yaml and
start.sh are md5-identical across the three vaults.
