Crucible Planner

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Content · Sub-category: storytelling

Interactive planning system for epic fantasy novels using the Crucible Structure—a 36-beat narrative framework with three interwoven story strands (Quest, Fire, Constellation), five Forge Points, and a Mercy Engine. Use when user wants to plan a fantasy novel, provides a story premise/synopsis, asks to "plan my fantasy book," wants to create planning documents for an epic fantasy, or mentions the Crucible Structure. Guides users through multi-choice questions to generate 7 planning document categories (14 files total) from a simple premise.

What this skill does

Crucible Planner is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the storytelling sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/crucible-planner/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when user wants to plan a fantasy novel, provides a story premise/synopsis, asks to "plan my fantasy book," wants to create planning documents for an epic fantasy, or mentions the Crucible Structure. Guides users through multi-choice questions to generate 7 planning document categories (14 files total) from a simple premise.

Who uses this skill

The Crucible Planner skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/crucible-planner
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/crucible-planner/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/crucible-planner/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/crucible-planner/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/crucible-planner/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\crucible-planner\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.