STORY STRUCTURE DESK

Where the screenplay grows a spine.

Skeleton owns the chapter → scene → shot hierarchy and writes straight to story.skel — with screenplay import, inline editing, and a distraction-free focus mode.

“For writers who want structure without leaving plain, portable files.”

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narrative levels

.fountain

screenplay import

.SKEL

lossless round-trip

PLATES · SEE SKELETON IN ACTION

The screens that do the work.

FIG. 2 — STORY TREE /story-editor

[ Story tree ]

Chapters, scenes, and shots with coverage signals

FIG. 3 — FOCUS WRITING MODE /story-editor

[ Focus writing mode ]

Distraction-free inline editor for a scene

INSIDE THIS COCKPIT

Skeleton surfaces

▸ Narrative Tree Chapter / scene / shot navigation with shot counts. /story-editor

▸ Inline Editor Edit titles, descriptions, action, and dialogue in place. /story-editor

▸ Focus Mode Hide navigation for distraction-free writing. /story-editor

▸ Fountain Import Convert .fountain screenplays into structured SKEL. /story-editor

▸ SKEL Preservation Lossless round-trip keeps deep production fields intact. /story-editor

CALL SHEET · SKELETON

How Skeleton moves the production.

01 INPUT

Write or import

Type directly or import a .fountain screenplay into structured SKEL.

02 STRUCTURE

Shape the tree

Organize chapters, scenes, and shots with drag-reorder and shot constraints.

03 PRESERVE

Keep every field

Edit common fields while deeper cinematography and BONE data round-trips safely.

04 HAND OFF

Let agents reason

Codex or Claude read story.skel, propose changes, and write back locally.

FEATURE PROOF · WHY THE JOB NEEDS THIS MUCH

Skeleton is packed because the job is real.

Editor

Three-level narrative editor

Chapters, scenes, and shots stay navigable, searchable, and agent-readable.

Import

Fountain screenplay ingest

Headings, action, dialogue, and scene structure convert straight into SKEL.

Focus

Distraction-free writing

Focus mode hides surrounding navigation so the words come first.

Safety

Lossless SKEL round-trip

Rich production fields the UI does not edit are preserved on every save.

BUILT FOR

Not one workflow. A shared production language.

screenwritersshowrunnersstory editorssolo creators

REFERENCE LAYER · FILED IN THE DOCS

Go deeper in the docs.

These pages sell the surface. The docs preserve the exact behaviors, file contracts, and workflow details.

▸ Your first project From new project to first assembled prompt. READ → ▸ The .SKEL format Open flat-relational YAML for stories. READ → ▸ Story Editor Chapters, scenes, shots, and the 4-shot discipline. READ →

Open Skeleton inside a real production.

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