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name: check-story-continuity
description: Audit Seeds of the Throne material for contradictions, chronology errors, impossible knowledge, character inconsistency, system-rule violations, terminology drift, status conflicts, and missing causal links. Use before promoting story notes, after major development, when reconciling files, or when the user asks whether an idea fits the current vault.
Check Story Continuity
Scope the audit
Read START HERE.md, 03 Context/CURRENT.md, 03 Context/RULES.md, 07 QA/Decisions.md, and 07 QA/Contradictions.md. Read only the compiled notes, sessions, and research directly implicated by the material under review.
Establish authority in this order:
- the author's latest explicit decision;
- recorded decisions;
- current context;
- compiled story notes with status labels;
- dated development sessions;
- advisory research.
Later text does not automatically outrank an earlier explicit decision.
Run the audit
Use references/audit-matrix.md. Check facts and dependencies, not only repeated names.
For each issue, cite the relevant files and classify it as:
- Contradiction: two claims cannot both be true.
- Tension: both may be true but need explanation.
- Gap: a required causal or informational link is absent.
- Drift: terminology, status, or framing changed inconsistently.
- Open question: the vault intentionally leaves the matter unresolved.
Assign impact as blocking, significant, or minor. Explain why it matters to plot, character agency, evidence, or world rules.
Report before changing
Return a compact findings list with evidence and safe options. Do not choose among creative alternatives unless the author has already decided.
When asked to update the vault, record new contradictions in 07 QA/Contradictions.md, decisions in 07 QA/Decisions.md, and unresolved structural questions in 07 QA/Questions.md. Preserve the original session history.
Guardrails
- Do not flatten all files into one supposedly clean truth.
- Do not promote the newest speculation over established material.
- Do not resolve a contradiction simply by deleting one side.
- Do not treat absence of detail as contradiction.
- Do not confuse a character's false belief with an authorial continuity error.