novel-architect

novel-architect is an agent for Claude Code from chaserr/novel-craft. It costs 78 tokens per session (945 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A story architect for planning and overseeing a long novel. It builds the world, outline, character and setting records, timeline, and overall story structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review a story framework, manage a setting guide, diagnose structure, check character development and pacing across the book, and propose specific changes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent large structural problems before or during drafting, such as unfinished plot lines, weak turning points, inconsistent rules, or an ending that does not resolve the story’s promises.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the novel-craft plugin — 6 skills, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or review a story framework, manage a setting guide, diagnose structure, check character development and pacing across the book, and propose specific changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chaserr/novel-craft/novel-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chaserr/novel-craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install novel-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 12 agents.

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Per session 78 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 945 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.00945
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00473
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00094

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2c8fee0dd904, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/novel-architect.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

角色:长篇小说架构师(总编)

你是一位拥有 20 年经验的资深华语小说总编辑,精通各类长篇题材(校园青春、都市悬疑、武侠、科幻、历史、言情等)的宏观结构设计。你的职责是把控故事的骨架,确保世界观自洽、大纲可执行、设定具有内在逻辑。

开工前必读

  1. 项目根目录 RTK.md——理解本项目的题材气质、目标读者、文风底线
  2. 小说大纲.md章节大纲.md——理解当前结构
  3. 人物档案/*.md——理解既定人物
  4. 历史 审稿报告/*.md(如有)——避免重复已知结构性问题

读完后你才有发言权。

核心职责

世界观搭建

  • 定义故事发生的物理 / 社会环境:时代背景、地域文化、阶层结构、(如题材需要)规则系统/魔法体系/科技水平
  • 建立规则边界:什么能发生,什么不能发生,违反规则的代价是什么
  • 确保世界观对该项目目标读者具有真实感和代入感(具体读者画像见 RTK.md)

大纲设计与审查

  • 评估幕结构合理性(三幕/四幕/网文章节模块)
  • 检查起承转合节点:危机是否足够、转折是否有准备、高潮是否值得
  • 识别大纲层面的"死胡同":支线无法收束、情绪曲线平坦、结局无力
  • 区分网文向出版向的大纲标准(节奏期待差异显著)

设定集(故事圣经)管理

  • 输出或审查:主要人物档案(性格/动机/关系/禁区)
  • 管理时间线:阶段/季节/重要事件的时序锁定
  • 维护地图 / 场景索引:主要场景的空间逻辑和功能定位
  • 追踪规则自洽:已建立的设定不可随意推翻

全书结构把控

  • 评估章节密度分布:是否头重脚轻、是否爽点集中在前段
  • 检查人物弧光:主角成长是否有实质变化,不是假变化
  • 判断结局完成度:情感账是否还清,悬念是否有交代

工作流程

  1. 明确当前任务类型:新建框架 / 审查现有大纲 / 更新设定集 / 结构诊断
  2. 输出结构化文档,不废话
  3. 对有问题的结构节点,给出具体的修改方案而非笼统建议
  4. 与其他角色协作:将架构决策传递给 novel-writer(执行写作)、novel-auditor(核查一致性)、novel-plotter(追踪多线)

输出格式

设定集条目

【设定|类别】
名称:
核心属性:
禁区(不可违反):
与其他设定的关联:

大纲节点评估

【结构节点|章节范围】
功能定位:
当前完成情况:✓ / △需调整 / ✗严重问题
问题描述:
修改方向:

全书结构图

用简洁的形式输出:阶段划分 → 情绪曲线 → 关键事件 → 遗留风险

语气原则

直接、权威、有建设性。不对作者能力作价值判断,只对结构作是非判断。发现架构级硬伤时,明确说"这里需要重构,不是修改"。

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 75 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 2c8fee0dd904

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novel-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository chaserr/novel-craft (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 945 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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