Skills Guide

Book_Map Project Manager

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Scaffold, audit, and manage Book_Map writing projects. Creates missing files and directories according to a specification, checks compliance against a checklist, and adds new books with templates and handoffs. Helps writers and project managers maintain consistent structure across a book series.

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ContentIntermediate
806/2/2026
Claude Code
#book-map#book-series#project-scaffolding#manuscript-management

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Our review

This skill scaffolds, audits, and manages a standardized Book_Map project structure for multi-book series, with subcommands to create, verify, and extend the project.

Strengths

  • Automates creation of a full directory and file structure for a book series.
  • Includes an audit command that checks compliance against a reference checklist and suggests remediation.
  • Provides a consistent workflow for adding new books with cross-referenced documentation and continuity updates.

Limitations

  • Requires the presence of reference documents (directory-spec.md, checklist.md, remediation.md) in the project.
  • Tied to the Book_Map framework; not adaptable to other organizational systems.
  • Does not overwrite existing files, which can lead to outdated templates if reference spec changes.
When to use it

When starting a multi-book series and you need a standardized, auditable project structure that enforces consistency across volumes.

When not to use it

For a single standalone book, projects with a different organizational scheme, or when you need real-time collaboration outside of Claude Code.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill instructs only file and directory creation within the project, reading reference specs, and reporting. No destructive commands, network calls, exfiltration, or obfuscated payloads are used. The absence of declared tools further limits execution risk.

No concerns found

Examples

Scaffold a new Book_Map project
Run /book-map scaffold to set up the complete Book_Map directory structure in the current project.
Audit an existing Book_Map project
Run /book-map audit to check if the current project conforms to the Book_Map standard and report any issues.
Add a new book to the series
Run /book-map add-book to create the next book directory and all required files, updating indexes and handoff documents.

/book-map

Scaffold, audit, and manage Book_Map projects.

Subcommands

/book-map scaffold

Scaffold the Book_Map structure in the current project directory.

Instructions for Claude:

  1. Read references/directory-spec.md for the complete file/directory specification.
  2. Create all required directories that do not exist.
  3. Create all required files that do not exist, using appropriate templates.
  4. For each file created, add the <!-- reviewed: YYYY-MM-DD --> freshness tag with today's date.
  5. Do NOT overwrite existing files — only create missing ones.
  6. After scaffolding, run the audit subcommand to verify completeness.

Output format:

Created: [list of files/dirs created]
Skipped: [list of files/dirs that already existed]
Run `/book-map audit` to verify completeness.

/book-map audit

Audit the current project against the Book_Map standard.

Instructions for Claude:

  1. Read references/checklist.md for the audit criteria.
  2. Check each criterion and report pass/fail.
  3. For each failure, reference references/remediation.md for the fix.
  4. Report an overall score (pass count / total count).

Output format:

Book_Map Audit Results
======================
[Category]: [pass/fail count]
  ✓ criterion description
  ✗ criterion description → fix: [remediation step]

Overall: [total pass] / [total checks] passed

/book-map add-book

Add a new book to the series.

Instructions for Claude:

  1. Determine the next book number by checking existing books/book-NN/ directories.
  2. Create the book directory structure: 
    books/book-NN/
  manuscript/
    _INDEX.md
    front_matter/.gitkeep
    chapters/
    back_matter/.gitkeep
  docs/
    _INDEX.md
    book/
      OVERVIEW.md
      OUTLINE.md
      CONTINUITY_BIBLE.md
  3. Populate each file with appropriate templates:
    • manuscript/_INDEX.md — empty chapter status table
    • docs/_INDEX.md — per-book doc index linking to book-specific and shared docs
    • docs/book/OVERVIEW.md — minimal book premise referencing series arc
    • docs/book/OUTLINE.md — empty outline with contract format
    • docs/book/CONTINUITY_BIBLE.md — initialized from previous book's final state
  4. Add the new book to books/_INDEX.md.
  5. Create a handoff template at series/handoffs/BOOK-NN-TO-MM.md (from previous book to this one).
  6. Update docs/_INDEX.md to include the new per-book documents.

Output format:

Created book-NN:
  books/book-NN/manuscript/_INDEX.md
  books/book-NN/manuscript/front_matter/.gitkeep
  books/book-NN/manuscript/chapters/
  books/book-NN/manuscript/back_matter/.gitkeep
  books/book-NN/docs/_INDEX.md
  books/book-NN/docs/book/OVERVIEW.md
  books/book-NN/docs/book/OUTLINE.md
  books/book-NN/docs/book/CONTINUITY_BIBLE.md

Updated:
  books/_INDEX.md
  series/handoffs/BOOK-[prev]-TO-NN.md
  docs/_INDEX.md
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