Book Idea — Development skill for Claude Code
For when you don't have a book concept yet — turn fragmented ideas (or nothing at all) into a structured premise, then hand off to /book-forge:book-new.
How to install Book Idea
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-idea/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-idea && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JayPing23/book-forge/HEAD/commands/book-idea.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-idea/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Book Idea does
description: For when you don't have a book concept yet — turn fragmented ideas (or nothing at all) into a structured premise, then hand off to /book-forge:book-new argument-hint: "[optional: any fragment of an idea you already have]"
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If `$ARGUMENTS` contains anything, treat it as a starting fragment and pass it straight to `ideation-agent`. If empty, dispatch `ideation-agent` and let it ask its Step 0 question (existing fragments, a reference work, or nothing at all).
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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