DOSSIER GL-102-01 · COCKPIT 01 OF 08 · STORY STRUCTURE · /story-editor

Skeleton

Your story, structured — never held hostage.

Skeleton owns the chapter → scene → shot hierarchy and writes straight to story.skel — with screenplay import, inline editing, and a distraction-free focus mode. Writing gets a calm, versionable workspace away from generation noise.

"I need the story to survive every tool change."

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NARRATIVE LEVELS

.fountain

SCREENPLAY IMPORT

.SKEL

LOSSLESS ROUND-TRIP

GENLOCK · SKELETON — /story-editor · LOCAL WORKSPACE

FOCUS MODEIMPORT .FOUNTAINstory.skel · SAVED

NARRATIVE TREE

▾ CH 01 · The Broadcast8 SH

▾ SC 01 · Signal Core — Night4 SH

SH 01 · Antenna field

SH 02 · Dead frequency

SH 03 · Mara listens

SH 04 · The reply

▸ SC 02 · Relay Station 94 SH

▸ CH 02 · The Answer4 SH

2 ACTS · 4 SCENES · 12 SHOTS
DRAG TO REORDER · 4-SHOT DISCIPLINE

CH 01 / SC 01 / SH 02 · INLINE EDITOR

SH 02 — Mara finds the dead frequency

ACTION

The console wall flickers awake. MARA wipes dust from a frequency readout that should be dark — 147.30 MHz, still transmitting. She leans in. The signal resolves into a slow, patient pulse.

DIALOGUE

MARA · "It's still broadcasting. Nobody's left to hear it — except us."

CAMERA · slow push-in · 35mm MOOD · sodium fog · night CAST · MARA VOSS + 9 PRODUCTION FIELDS PRESERVED

WRITES → projects/welcome-story/story.skel LOSSLESS ROUND-TRIP ✓

FIG. 1 — NARRATIVE TREE + INLINE EDITOREVERY EDIT IS A DIFF IN YOUR GIT REPO

WHY THIS IS
ITS OWN COCKPIT

Writing needs a calm, versionable workspace away from generation noise.

Skeleton keeps narrative structure in open SKEL files you can diff, branch, review, restore, and hand to any capable agent. Edit the common fields in the app; deeper cinematography and BONE data round-trips safely on every save — nothing the UI doesn't show is ever destroyed.

INSIDE THIS COCKPIT5 FOCUSED SURFACES

Skeleton surfaces

▸ Narrative Tree/story-editor

Chapter / scene / shot navigation with shot counts and coverage signals.

▸ Inline Editor/story-editor

Edit titles, descriptions, action, and dialogue in place — no modal maze.

▸ Focus Mode/story-editor

Hide navigation for distraction-free writing. The words come first.

▸ Fountain Import/story-editor

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

▸ SKEL Preservation/story-editor

Lossless round-trip keeps deep production fields intact on every save.

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

BUILT FOR · SCREENWRITERS · SHOWRUNNERS · STORY EDITORS · SOLO CREATORS

CALL SHEET · SKELETONHOW IT 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.

READS & WRITES: story.skel*.fountain → importgit-diffable YAML