According to Narrova I’ve completed my storyforming stage but my NCP status still shows as candidate (Claude pointed this out to me when I was testing out the MCP connection, which was awesome). I asked Narrova to update my NCP, including the status, and got the following response:
I attempted to change the NCP status from candidate to storyformed, and the notebook synchronized successfully, but validation still reports the status as candidate. I therefore can’t truthfully claim that the label changed.
I confirmed it’s still a candidate in the NCP download.
If at all possible, if you can “thumbs down” that response and then leave some feedback as to what’s going on - that can go a long way towards getting this tuned up faster.
I’ll still look into it from here - but the quickest way is through those specific feedback tools.
The NCP (Narrative Context Protocol) is at an interesting flux point right now, especially with the new v3 where the Dramatica part is now a profile (as opposed to the ONLY thing that NCP is) - given you are bouncing back and forth between Claude and Narrova (glad its working!) - if you have a second, and don’t mind - if you could let us know your use case/intentions behind wanting to save to NCP from within Dramatica.
It would really help us craft something truly helpful.
I don’t have a well-defined use case, I’m more just playing around with the possibilities. I like structured data, so it seems like a handy way to get my data out of Dramatica and use it elsewhere. For example, brainstorming with Claude, or having Claude take that structured NCP data and re-write it into another format for use in another tool. The MCP connection to Claude probably gets me the same thing, but I have this biased feeling that structured JSON is more objective and reliable than the MCP queries (maybe that’s not true).
I don’t think I would ever try to bring NCP data back into Dramatica though. If I made significant changes to my story, I would then chat with Narrova about those changes to let it put them through the Dramatica checks and make sure everything still worked. Dramatica seems complex enough that I would want it to be the truth source.
That’s a long way of saying if you give me toys like NCP and MCP, I’ll look for something to do with them.