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Book New — Development skill for Claude Code

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Create a new book project — scaffold, research, and outline.

How to install Book New

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-new/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-new && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JayPing23/book-forge/HEAD/commands/book-new.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jayping23-book-forge-book-new/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Book New does

description: Create a new book project — scaffold, research, and outline argument-hint:

book-new

If the author doesn't have a concept yet (no title, genre, or protagonist idea in mind), point them to `/book-forge:book-idea` first rather than pushing through this command's questions on a blank slate — that command converges fragments (or nothing at all) into a structured premise this command can then consume directly.

Given a project name as `$ARGUMENTS`:

If `$ARGU

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