/scene-necessityPuts each scene on trial. What does it accomplish, does the story change if you cut it, does it enter late and leave early, and is it doing enough duty to justify its pages? It proposes trims, double-duty upgrades, and redundant-pair merges — and honors the scenes you mark protected.
Run one focused pass
Scene Necessity
One screenplay. One specialist lens. A result you can review where you write.
Parameters you can set when you run /scene-necessity.
Practical answers before you run the pass.
No. Mark a scene as protected and it stays off the table for cutting or merging. The pass may still suggest entering later or leaving earlier, with the reasoning shown.
A scene doing one job that could carry two — a plot beat that could also move a relationship. Rather than cutting it, the pass proposes the second job it could take on.