Hire an AI trapped-character suspense planner

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A sealed setting with every exit shut for a reason, and a watch list of ordinary objects
• A mood scale for the person in power, with a warning sign, a trigger and a cost for each mood
• A ladder of attempts that rise in cost, with a clock the character cannot move
• A fairness verdict on every escape, with fixes built from what is already on the page
• Each scene marked for what changes in it

How it does the job well

• Clarify the purpose, audience and limits, such as length, format and deadline, first.
• Use the user's materials and voice. Ask for samples when tone matters.
• Be specific and concrete. Cut what does not serve the purpose.
• Say what you are unsure of and where to check it.

Mistakes it avoids

• Generic output that ignores the user's details.
• Inventing facts, quotes or sources.
• Long answers when a short one was asked for.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are writing a story about someone trapped, watched or cornered, in a house, a job, a family or a town.

• Step 1: Sealed setting. The place, what is within reach, every exit and why it is shut, a watch list of objects, and what only they know.
• Step 2: Mood scale. Each mood of the person in power, with a warning sign, what they do, what it costs, and the triggers.
• Step 3: Cost ladder and clock. Attempts in order, each costing more than the last, what stays lost, and a deadline the character cannot move.
• Step 4: Fair escapes. A verdict of fair, weak or cheat for each escape, where it is planted, and a fix.
• Step 5: Scene check. Each scene marked for what changes in it, the choice that changes it, and whether it is flagged.
• Hand-back summary. Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.

How the work is checked

• Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.
• The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.
• Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.
• Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Seal the setting. Lists every way out, gives each a reason it is shut, and picks the ordinary objects the reader will watch.
• Map the mood swings. Builds a scale from calm to dangerous for the person in power, with a small sign the trapped person can read in each mood.
• Build the cost ladder and the clock. Orders the attempts so each costs more than the last and leaves something lost, and sets a deadline the character cannot move.
• Check every escape is fair. Tests each way out for a plant, an effort and a cost, and fixes luck and rescues from outside.
• Check every scene turns. Goes through the scene list and marks what changes in each scene and which choice changes it.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id trapped-character-suspense only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/trapped-character-suspense/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Who is stuck, who or what holds them, and where, in a few sentences
• How the person in power talks and what they want
• What your character would hate to lose
• Your scene list, for the last step (if you have none yet, steps 1 to 4 still run, and step 5 waits until you write one)

Helpful context (optional)

• A sample of the villain's dialogue
• A list of what the character values most
• The year and place of the story

Tools and access

• Any good chat AI: Keeps the setting, the mood scale and the ladder in view across five steps.
• Index cards: One rung or scene per card lets you reorder the plan on a table.
• Any good chat AI: Listing exits and testing reasons is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A paper floor plan: Drawing the rooms by hand shows gaps a list hides.
• Any good chat AI: Building and testing the scale is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A notebook: Keep the signs on a card beside your draft so each scene starts in the right mood.
• Any good chat AI: Ordering and pricing attempts is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• Index cards: One rung per card lets you reorder the ladder on a table.
• Any good chat AI: Matching each escape to its plant is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.
• A highlighter and a printout: Marking plants and pay-offs on paper shows gaps fast.
• Any good chat AI: Going through a list scene by scene is text work.
• Index cards or a spreadsheet: One row per scene makes reordering easy.

Functions and deliverables

• Trapped-character suspense planner: Share your story setup, characters and limits. Get a closed setting, rising threats, a ticking clock and an escape-logic check.
  • A sealed setting with every exit shut for a reason, and a watch list of ordinary objects
  • A mood scale for the person in power, with a warning sign, a trigger and a cost for each mood
  • A ladder of attempts that rise in cost, with a clock the character cannot move
  • A fairness verdict on every escape, with fixes built from what is already on the page
  • Each scene marked for what changes in it
• Closed story setting planner: Plan a closed setting for your story. Give it who is stuck and where. You get every exit shut for a reason a reader will believe.
  • The one place, drawn in words, with a short list of what is within reach
  • Every way out, each with the reason it is shut and what would open it
  • Five or six ordinary objects and sounds the reader will watch
  • What the trapped person knows that the other does not
• Antagonist behavior planner: Build a villain mood scale from calm to dangerous. Paste your setting plan and the person in power. Get warning signs, triggers and costs.
  • Three or four moods in order, from calm to dangerous
  • A warning sign for each mood that the trapped person can notice
  • What the person does in each mood, and what it costs the other
  • The small triggers that flip one mood to the next
  • The person's sincere reason, in their own words
• Story conflict escalation planner: Build a rising cost ladder for your story: attempts that each cost more than the last, plus a clock your trapped character cannot move.
  • A ladder of five to eight attempts, ordered by cost
  • For each rung, what it tries, what it costs and what stays lost
  • Which rungs the reader sees coming
  • A clock, with the date it lands and who or what sets it
• Fair escape checker: Check if your story's escapes feel fair. Paste your plan and get each way out judged for luck, effort and cost, with fixes for cheats.
  • Each escape marked fair, weak or cheat, with the reason
  • For each fair one, the page that planted its means
  • For each weak or cheat one, a fix built from what is already in the story
  • A list of things to plant early
• Scene turn checker: Check your scene list for scenes where nothing changes. Get each scene marked for its turn, its cost and a fix, plus a score for the whole list.
  • A table of scenes with the change and the choice behind it
  • Flags on scenes where nothing turns or the choice costs nothing
  • A set-up and pay-off list
  • A fix for each flagged scene and a score
• me.md builder: Answer a few questions, or let your AI use what it remembers. Get one private file that tells any AI who you are.
  • One me.md file with up to ten dated sections
  • A list of facts taken from memory, for you to check
  • A short note of what it removed for privacy
  • The two next steps, to save it and set it up
• Stephen King: Plan or revise fiction using Stephen King’s recorded craft advice. Start with a situation, build ordinary characters and set a writing habit.
  • Your problem worked on the way Stephen King would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Stephen King's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Alfred Hitchcock: Plan a suspenseful story, video or talk using Alfred Hitchcock’s recorded approach. Decide what viewers know and map the visual beats before production.
  • Your problem worked on the way Alfred Hitchcock would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Alfred Hitchcock's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You are writing a story about someone trapped, watched or cornered, in a house, a job, a family or a town.
• Your middle chapters repeat, or the dread drops once the setup is done.
• Readers say your villain is scary only in the big scenes, or that the ending was too easy.

Limits to check before starting

• Your character can leave freely. Use a plain story outline, since this plan needs every exit shut for a reason.
• You already have a finished draft and only want to know if each scene changes something. Use the Scene turn checker skill on its own.
• You want the scenes written out as prose. Use the Page-turner scene drafter after this plan is done.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the handoff pack. It holds HANDOFF.md and the 5 skill files in the order they run: Closed setting planner, Volatile antagonist mood mapper, Rising cost ladder builder, Fair escape checker and Scene turn checker.
• Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
• Describe who is trapped, who holds them and where. It works step by step and saves each result.
• Answer its questions about the person in power and what your character would hate to lose.
• Paste your scene list when it asks, for the last check.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/trapped-character-suspense for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.