Your Obsidian vault,
print-ready.

While you write

Structure, charted

Charts your manuscript's pacing scene by scene and act by act, so you can see it at a glance. Word counts are taken from the text itself.

Measured against a shape

Compare that arc to a named structure: Freytag's Pyramid, or a rasa-cycle template for non-Western story structure. Mark where you meant the climax to be and see where it lands.

Continuity checks

Finds characters who are mentioned but have no note, acts and chapters that drift out of order, and scene files that sit in the folder but are missing from the index.

Script-agnostic linking

Links each character's first mention to their note. Each book lists the scripts it uses and which word endings still count as the same name, so a Gujarati book and an English book are set up differently without changing any code.

When you print

Prose, typeset

You write Markdown and the build typesets it: trim size and bleed, a wider gutter for the binding, chapters opening on a right-hand page, blank versos without a folio, and old-style figures. The default fonts come with Typst, so you don't need to install any.

Illustrated layout

A picture book places its own art and type per scene, in a Typst block that stays readable in Obsidian. Bleed is added when the PDF is built, on whichever edges each page needs.

Kindle from the same source

The ebook interior is built from the same scene files as the print PDF, so there is only one manuscript to keep up to date.

It asks first

Setup asks what kind of book you're making before it creates any files, because a novel and a picture book need very different page setups. A wrong answer still gives you a valid PDF, but of the wrong kind of book.

In Claude Code

/book-new

Sets up a new book vault. It asks for the title, format, manuscript status and where you'll publish, then creates the folders and files.

/book-audit-vault

Checks the vault is sound: book.yml valid, Story/Index.md and Characters/ present, and refreshes the structure chart.

/book-audit-manuscript

Checks the manuscript for characters without a note, acts and chapters out of order, and first mentions that should be linked.

/book-build

Builds the print PDF and prepares the Kindle interior from the same files.

Or without Claude Code

Everything above also runs as a plain command, so you can use the kit without Claude Code.

python3 authoring/cli.py init       # interview, then scaffold
python3 authoring/cli.py skeleton   # structure + pacing chart
python3 authoring/cli.py link       # first mentions -> character notes
python3 authoring/cli.py check      # continuity and unlisted scenes
python3 pipeline/build.py           # -> Deliver/<title>.pdf

It comes with two example vaults you can build straight away: a novel with nested folders and a picture book with a flat one. Both use public-domain text and together take up under 14 KB. The kit tests itself with 47 checks.