Long-form story-writer with canon-keeping, sequel-continuity, and self-hosted narration. Database-is-source-of-truth — writer is the tooling.
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Migration 0004 — authors + author_revisions + stories.author_id + stories.author_revision_id + stories.cross_story_memory + author_corpus. Soul versioning built in from day one per cobb's locked decisions: - authors.id immutable identity (slug + display_name + tagline + model) - author_revisions tracks each soul revision with n monotonic - Partial unique index 'idx_author_revisions_current' enforces exactly one is_current=true per author - stories.author_revision_id pins to the exact soul used at gen time (so 'this was the Orson Black active when chapter 8 was written' is always recoverable) - author_corpus tracks 'authored' + 'read' relationships for the v0.3 cross-story memory toggle skald-core::authors module — CRUD: get_by_slug, get_with_current_revision, get_current_revision, get_revision, create_or_get (idempotent), add_revision (transactional, demotes prior is_current=true), assign_to_story (also touches author_corpus). Web v0.1 forms (the second feedback bucket — 'no way to make new stories', 'no options for sequels'): handlers + form panels + POST routes for /stories/new and /stories/:id/continue. Both create a story stub with status='seed'; actual generation will be fired by 'skald continue' (next commit) walking seed rows. Norse visual revamp + mobile collapse deferred — vetting full gen is the priority per cobb's 'green light for v0.3'. Coming back to the aesthetic after the pipeline works end-to-end against a real Orson Black-authored Chapter 8 of Coast-Down. |
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skald
Long-form story-writer with canon-keeping, sequel continuity, and (future) self-hosted audiobook narration. Database is the source of truth — the writer is the tooling.
Named for the Old Norse poets who composed and memorized kings' sagas across generations.
Status: v0.1 — scaffold
What's wired:
- Rust workspace (
skald-core+skald) - Postgres schema for stories, characters, canon facts, chapters, passages, generation runs, audit findings, tags
- pgvector extension installed for future similarity search
skald import-markdowningests a story file (chapters + bible) into the schemaskald serveexposes/healthand runs migrations on boot- Single-container deploy: postgres + skald in one image
Wired (this commit):
- clawdforge Rust SDK vendored at
vendor/clawdforge/(upstream:Sulkta-Coop/clawdforgeclients/rust/) skald-core::forge— three-pass orchestration shell (gen / cleanup / audit). Prompts are TODO stubs; pipeline plumbing is in place.
Not yet wired:
- Web UI (the inbox + browse + queue surface)
- Prompt templates for the three passes (heavy prompt-engineering work — own session)
skald-core::context— assemble the LLM context blob from DB rows (bible + characters + parent prose summaries + similarity-matched passages)- Embeddings backfill + ivfflat index
- TTS sidecar container + post-render audit chain (see
docs/tts-pipeline.md)
v0.1 smoke
docker compose -p skald up -d
docker exec skald skald import-markdown \
--path /seed/coast-down.md \
--title "The Coast-Down"
curl http://lucy:7780/health
# → { ok: true, db_ok: true, story_count: 1, ... }
Schema (cheat sheet)
stories → meta + status + parent/root for series
characters → real or fictional, story-scoped
canon_facts → setting, mystery, theme, rule, historical_anchor, hook
chapters → full prose body
chapter_summaries → short summaries for cheap context loading
passages → paragraph-level + embedding vector(1536)
generation_runs → every LLM call logged
audit_findings → canon audit output (severity + area)
tags → arbitrary labels
Architecture (v0.1 + the plan)
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ skald container │
│ ┌───────────┐ ┌────────────┐ │
│ │ postgres │ │ skald-rust │ │
│ │ pgvector │←─│ axum + cli │ │
│ │ localhost │ │ :7780 │ │
│ └───────────┘ └─────┬──────┘ │
└─────────────────────────┼────────┘
│ HTTP (future)
↓
┌──────────┐
│clawdforge│
└─────┬────┘
↓
opus calls
v1.0+: extract postgres to its own container on db-net. skald
becomes pure stateless rust, connects via DATABASE_URL. Migration
is a connection-string change + a network move; the binary doesn't
care where the DB lives.
License
MIT.