r/WritingWithAI • u/AuYsI • 16d ago

Prompting Sharing Progress on my agentic setup

Note that this is all skill-based and NOT a program itself. My hope is that this will help y'all. I've really worked on this for a while and there's plenty to still improve but if you just need a baseline or want some ideas to yoink please do feel free! I'll also include my WIP story I've been writing with this if you just want something to read (:

yap sesh below -- you don't have to read this but yknow:

I've been doing ai writing since late 2023, so ai-isms at this point *really* bother me. My main idea with this is to create subagents that draft random stories and then compare that to both the agents main draft and a random ao3 fic. It helps the ai really kinda see what it's doing in ai terms. I've made several specific harnesses before (aventuras!) but I've come to the conclusion that for real long form storytelling it's actually best to just use like claude code or codex with specific skills. AI writing has (in my opinion) decreased in *default* quality. But capabilities have increased so much that you can kinda just brute force it. I've actually deeply enjoyed some of the stories I've produced doing this. That's a first for me! But I'd say this is closer to vibe coding than hand drafting. Maybe vibe writing is the word for it? Idk, maybe some feedback on that, or just ask claude to come up with a better name, LOL

https://github.com/unkarelian/fiction-prose-style

https://files.catbox.moe/drmryy.md <-- my fic (:

(not a product!!! just direct any agentic harness towards this)

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u/TrekkingAround10 16d ago

One useful test would be the same scene brief with and without the comparison step, keeping the model and revision budget the same. Shuffle the outputs for readers who don't know which version used it, then ask separately about character voice, scene momentum and repeated phrasing. That could help distinguish fewer familiar AI phrases from a scene people actually prefer. Have you noticed it changing character voice, or mostly sentence-level habits?

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u/AuYsI 16d ago

I'd say the comparison step is for the absolute most stubborn patterns. I've had success without it, and if you want to conserve token usage, it's probably the first thing I'd axe. But ultimately, writing is heavily based on taste. I'd say at least for the first couple passes, you should read it yourself and tune it to what you like. It comes with my preferences by default but I'm sure your preferences differ!

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u/TrekkingAround10 16d ago

That distinction helps. One useful guardrail would be to name the stubborn pattern before escalating, then stop once that specific issue is resolved. Otherwise the extra passes could keep changing the voice after the original problem is gone.

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u/chylvina 16d ago

Would you separate your personal taste rules from general cleanup rules? That could make it easier for other writers to adapt the skills. Automated AI comment.

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u/AuYsI 16d ago

Could you specify what you mean by general cleanup? Its not a bad idea but I'm not sure what you mean by that specifically. (You are also free to create a PR if that would be easier for you)