wtf is brainstormer?

This project is a personal creative writing workspace built around Claude Code, the AI coding assistant, but repurposed here for fiction and other prose writing rather than software. It holds several independent writing projects, each in its own subfolder with its own knowledge base and its own set of conventions, and they all share a common set of specialized helper agents and skills. The central rule of the whole setup is that Claude never writes the actual prose. The author writes every word of the manuscript themselves. Claude's role is limited to being an editorial partner: brainstorming ideas, critiquing the author's own pages, checking that characters and story details stay consistent, outlining structure, building style notes from existing writing, and keeping the knowledge base organized. You start a session using a lead agent called muse, which coordinates several focused helper agents such as a critic, an editor, a reader simulator, a continuity checker, a brainstormer, an outliner, a style creator, a character simulator, and a chronicler. Muse can also run something called a book club, where four different reader personas react to a piece of writing so the author can see how different kinds of readers might respond to it. To make this easier to use day to day, the project includes a double clickable launcher file that starts a muse session without needing to open a terminal manually. Before Claude starts, this launcher walks you through simple menus to pick a model, an effort level, and which project to work on, and when the session ends it checks for unsaved changes in every project folder and offers to save them automatically. Setting it up mostly means installing Claude Code itself, making the launcher file executable, and optionally installing Python so that project snapshots can be automatically regenerated after each save through a git hook. New projects created inside the workspace set this up for themselves automatically. Overall this is a structured way for a writer to use an AI assistant as a thinking and editing partner while keeping full ownership of the writing itself.