Genre Creator

Use when the project does not fit a built-in genre cleanly, or when the author is unsure which genre applies. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/loom/quality-bar.md and the candidate genre skills.

Built-in genres

Selection

Three questions, then route:

1. What is the reader doing with it? (living a story / learning to understand / learning to do / watching / playing / reading aloud / examining)
2. What does the author fear most going wrong? (boring middle / being wrong / being unclear / being obvious / being inconsistent)
3. What does "done" look like? (a bound book / a script / a build / a submission)

Hybrids are common: a memoir with a practical framework (nonfiction, narrative spine); a technical book with a fictional running story (technical, with fiction scene craft for the story sections); an illustrated poetry-essay (poetry + nonfiction). Most hybrids are a primary genre with a borrowed section from another; write that into genre-custom.md rather than inventing a new genre.

Custom genre spec

Write genre-custom.md in the project root. Agents read it in place of a built-in genre skill.

# Genre: {name}

## Parent genre
{closest built-in; agents read that skill first, then this file}

## Reader and what they are doing with it
...

## Structure
{shape with proportions; which chapters borrow which genre's craft}

## Borrowed craft
- From book-fiction: scene design for the narrative interludes
- From book-nonfiction: evidence discipline for the argument chapters

## Unique elements
{what no built-in genre covers}

## Tells to watch
{genre-specific failure modes, in addition to quality-bar.md}

## Validation
{what the architect scores; what beta-reader's personas are}

## Agent notes
| Agent | Behavior override |
|-------|-------------------|
| scene-generator | runs only on chapters tagged `narrative: true` in the outline |
| fact-checker | runs on argument chapters only |

Agent behavior by genre

Usage

/book-genre-creator runs selection. /book-genre-creator list shows the table. /book-genre-creator custom starts the spec. If PRD.md already has a genre, show that genre's workflow and offer to customize.