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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Schema: characters.voice_id + characters.slug (migration 0007). voice_id is FK to voices(id); slug is the stable lowercase token the narrate_prep pass uses inside [voice:slug]...[/voice]. Forge::narrate_prep takes &[CharacterSpeaker]. System prompt expanded to instruct the author to wrap dialogue lines in voice tags based on a roster supplied in the user prompt (slug + name + short hint from key_facts). Unattributed dialogue stays unwrapped and inherits the narrator voice. skald narrate substitutes [voice:<character-slug>] → [voice:<kokoro-voice-name>] right before sending to Kokoro, using characters.voice_id JOIN voices.reference_path as the map. Slugs with no voice or no character row fall back to the narrator voice defensively (logged as warn). kokoro_server.py v0.4: splitter recognises [voice:X]...[/voice] blocks at the paragraph level. Each text node carries an optional voice attribution; renderer feeds it to Kokoro per-segment. Outside voice blocks the request's default voice is used. voices_used is reported back so callers can verify multi-voice actually ran. Only kokoro-routed renders pre-process voice tags; F5 paths leave the tags in place (F5 multi-voice not implemented). Defensive fallback: orphan/unclosed [/voice] markers are silently absorbed rather than failing the render. |
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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.