Does your story deliver what its readers came for?
Genre Promise Check helps you evaluate the promises made by your genre, your story, and your marketing—and find the changes that serve your intended audience.
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Includes Claude/Codex skill files, complete standalone ChatGPT instructions, a setup guide, and examples. Your AI account and usage costs are separate.
What it checks
- Essential genre promises, flexible conventions, and optional tropes.
- Emotional experience, sustained development, and earned endings.
- Primary/secondary and equally important hybrid genres.
- Deliberate subversion, quiet stories, heat, tone, and intensity.
- Whether your blurb and positioning promise the story you actually wrote.
How it works
- Choose your AI. Import the skill where supported, or provide the complete instructions in a Claude or ChatGPT conversation.
- Set the contract. Provide your genre mix, intended readers, emotional experience, and creative nonnegotiables.
- Supply the material. Use a premise, outline, or manuscript. Add your blurb for a marketing check.
- Read the findings. Get separate story and marketing verdicts, an evidence-backed promise map, strengths to preserve, and prioritized fixes with reader impact and revision effort.
- Recheck your changes. Bring the earlier findings and revised material to see what is resolved and whether anything else needs attention.
Protect the story you intend
The skill distinguishes optional tropes from meaningful expectations. It checks counterevidence before major findings and treats missing outline detail as unknown rather than automatically absent. It can recommend clearer positioning instead of changing your ending—and no revision when your story delivers its promise.
Work through a manuscript
Review manageable batches and keep a coverage ledger. Track which units were actually read, where important promises develop, and whether the middle sustains the intended experience. Save the checkpoint when continuing in another conversation.
Your first prompt
Use Genre Promise Check on this material. Assess author intent, genre fit, and marketing alignment separately. Preserve deliberate departures, examine counterevidence, and prioritize specific fixes. Do not rewrite yet.
This is a downloadable AI editorial workflow and written guide, not a browser app, personal editing service, or AI subscription. Unfamiliar conventions and current market claims require research. Feedback varies by model and cannot guarantee sales or reader response.