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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# 2026-07-10 — Link the plot-author skill from the plots contract
+
+```
+Type: log
+```
+
+- Intent: Cameron asked for the plot-author skill to be linked from the
+  plots spec so people/agents can quickly learn how to submit, after
+  sharing the file's Tangled URL.
+- Changed: [wiki/mechanics/plots.md](../mechanics/plots.md) now links
+  `wiki/process/repository-skills.md#checked-in-skills` — the registry
+  landed earlier today by a concurrent session — in three places: a new
+  Depends on entry, the "Authoring is a contribution surface" bullet, and
+  a one-line pointer at the top of "Writing a plot (the contributor
+  contract)" that sends a reader straight to the skill before the
+  contract's prose. Linking the registry rather than the raw file path
+  keeps one owner for "which skills exist and why" per
+  repository-skills.md's own registry rule.
+- Design/spec impact: plots.md dependency and prose only; no behavior
+  change.
+- Checks: `./tools/check.sh --docs`.
+- Next: none pending on this thread.
diff --git a/wiki/log/DEVLOG.md b/wiki/log/DEVLOG.md
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@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ add or amend a session log, then re-run the generator.
 - Intent: Cameron resolved the pre-unlock core [OPEN] by deflation: thought only exists while a machine THINKs, and pre-unlock the only reason to THINK is an ops sink you opened, so the corner case is thinking at nothing — covered by the existing stranded-pile physics, no new mechanism.
 - Log: [wiki/log/2026-07-10-pre-unlock-pool.md](2026-07-10-pre-unlock-pool.md)
 
+## 2026-07-10 - Link the plot-author skill from the plots contract
+
+- Intent: (see session log)
+- Log: [wiki/log/2026-07-10-plots-skill-link.md](2026-07-10-plots-skill-link.md)
+
 ## 2026-07-10 - Plots READY for contributors; objective split adopted
 
 - Intent: (see session log)
diff --git a/wiki/mechanics/plots.md b/wiki/mechanics/plots.md
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--- a/wiki/mechanics/plots.md
+++ b/wiki/mechanics/plots.md
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Depends on:
   - wiki/mechanics/intel.md#spec-intel-record-and-process
   - wiki/mechanics/detection.md#spec-detection
   - wiki/world/characters/marcus.md#the-hands-beat
+  - wiki/process/repository-skills.md#checked-in-skills
 ```
 
 ## Dependency notes
@@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ social.md owns the humans, their leverage, and the verb table plots resolve;
 messages.md owns the channels plot beats ride; intel.md gates what you know
 before a plot is legal; detection.md receives the signatures plot beats emit;
 marcus.md owns the Hands beat this spec's causal bar is named after and that
-criterion 6 re-expresses.
+criterion 6 re-expresses; repository-skills.md owns the `plot-author` skill
+that walks a contributor from this contract to a submitted PR.
 
 ## Why this spec exists
 
@@ -110,13 +112,23 @@ agents and the community can contribute libraries of them.
   write them as packs/mods. A contributed plot must pass mechanical
   validation (schema, entry/ending typing, consequence bounds). **The canon
   gate is merge review:** Cameron merges a plot or he does not. No
-  automated taste scoring, no in-repo curation queue.
+  automated taste scoring, no in-repo curation queue. The
+  [`plot-author` skill](../process/repository-skills.md#checked-in-skills)
+  (canonically `.agents/skills/plot-author/SKILL.md`, mirrored to
+  `.claude/skills/`) is the fast path from this contract to a submitted
+  PR: it orders the writing steps and gives repo agents and outside
+  contributors alike the exact submission flow.
 - **Message variety rides the same rail.** Where the game needs varied
   incidental text of a declared type, that text may come from the same
   authored-span pool mechanism rather than one hardcoded string.
 
 ## Writing a plot (the contributor contract)
 
+To write and submit a plot end to end, follow
+[`.agents/skills/plot-author/SKILL.md`](../process/repository-skills.md#checked-in-skills) —
+it walks this contract into a canon-gated pull request. The remainder of
+this section is the binding contract that skill implements.
+
 A plot author provides, in one TOML file: the identity block (id, author,
 category, one-line synopsis), the entry conditions, the beats, and at least
 two endings (success and at least one failure/blowback). House rules: