📖 Narrative Theory
Aristotle to Lisa Cron. Academic foundations of story structure, character arcs, plot frameworks. 14 major theories mapped to Storyweaver agents.
Read Foundation →🤖 AI-Assisted Writing
LLM creative generation research. Coherence wall, author-assistance paradigm, writer pain points. 7 frontier models analyzed (Claude, GPT, Gemini).
Read Foundation →⚙️ Multi-Agent Systems
Orchestration patterns. Orchestrator-worker, blackboard architecture, Agents' Room (narrative-specific). Context isolation, handoff protocols, critic loops.
Read Foundation →✍️ Storyteller Practices
Writer community ethnography. Tools (Scrivener, NovelCrafter, Sudowrite), platforms (Reddit, Discord), pain points. 9 storyteller personas mapped.
Read Foundation →🔗 Vault Synthesis
Existing ecosystem work. Storyweaver rispecs, IAIP Etuaptmumk-RSM, NCP, decolonizing software, narrative beats, intent-context layers.
Read Foundation →These five foundation documents anchor the Miadi Storyweaver Orchestration Kit in peer-reviewed research, verified industry patterns, practitioner ethnography, and existing ecosystem work.
For architects: Use multi-agent-systems + vault-synthesis to design agent handoff contracts and state-management architecture.
For agents implementing the kit: Reference narrative-theory when designing the Brief Archaeologist and Outline Architect. Use ai-writing research to inform Continuity Keeper constraints.
For writers evaluating Storyweaver: Read storyteller-practices to see your pain points named, and narrative-theory to understand how agents will steward your story's structure.
For researchers citing this work: Each foundation document includes sources, cautions about novelty claims, and gaps in current literature.
These foundations are not just academic scaffolding. They are the **story of storytelling itself**—how humans have theorized narrative, how technology now participates in that ancient craft, what writers actually need, and how to build tools that honor both precision and the living act of creation.
The Storyweaver Kit is not novel because it invents new structure. It is novel because it **synthesizes** known structures (Vogler, McKee, Cron) into orchestrated agents that respect storytellers' autonomy, cultural boundaries, and the irreplaceable human act of choosing what happens next.