Narrative Context Protocol: An Open-Source Storytelling Framework for Generative AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04844v5
• Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:26:47 GMT
• Title: Narrative Context Protocol: An Open-Source Storytelling Framework for Generative AI
• Authors: Hank Gerba,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Narrative Context Protocol (NCP), an open-source narrative standard designed to enable narrative interoperability.<n>By encoding a story's structure in a "Storyform," NCP enables narrative portability across systems.<n>We demonstrate the capabilities of NCP through a year-long experiment, during which an author used NCP and a custom authoring platform to create a playable, text-based experience.
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• Abstract: Here we introduce Narrative Context Protocol (NCP), an open-source narrative standard designed to enable narrative interoperability, AI-driven authoring tools, real-time emergent narratives, and more. By encoding a story's structure in a "Storyform," which is a structured register of its narrative features, NCP enables narrative portability across systems as well as intent-based constraints for generative storytelling systems. We demonstrate the capabilities of NCP through a year-long experiment, during which an author used NCP and a custom authoring platform to create a playable, text-based experience based on her pre-existing novella. This experience is driven by generative AI, with unconstrained natural language input. NCP functions as a set of "guardrails" that allows the generative system to accommodate player agency while also ensuring that narrative context and coherence are maintained.

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