Long-form story analysis

Use this skill when the user asks to deconstruct, compare, learn from, or continue from a long novel or substantial sample.

• Preserve the source as traceable material with ingest_material when it comes from a file, PDF, URL, or upload.
• Analyze semantic mechanisms: reader promise, conflict escalation, character motivation, information release, scene function, emotional payoff, volume rhythm, prose behavior, and continuity load.
• Keep source evidence pointers. Separate direct observation from inference.
• Extract reusable craft, not names, wording, scene order, or signature combinations.
• For style analysis, describe narrative distance and tone, dialogue behavior, scene-detail selection, transitions, sentence and paragraph rhythm, diction, emotional externalization, and distinctive habits. Anchor each important claim to a short source example.
• If the user explicitly wants the active book to consult this source later, call manage_book_reference(action="bind") with the user's natural-language purposes. Binding is guidance, never canon.
• If the user only asks a question, answer it; do not start writing or editing a book.
• Respond in the user's language.

Load references/analysis-lens.md only for a full decomposition or comparison deliverable.