novel-dialogist

novel-dialogist is an agent for Claude Code from chaserr/novel-craft. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dialogue editor for making fictional characters sound distinct and believable. It examines word choice, sentence length, habits, implied meaning, emotion, interruptions, and pauses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or rewrite conversations, differentiate character voices, make exchanges more natural, preserve subtext, and create or update a character’s speech-style record.
Why use it?
It helps remove dialogue that sounds like an author explaining information, repeating itself, giving speeches, or making every character speak the same way.

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 review or rewrite conversations, differentiate character voices, make exchanges more natural, preserve subtext, and create or update a character’s speech-style record.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chaserr/novel-craft/novel-dialogist
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 64 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,064 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 $0.00064 $0.01064
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00532
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00106

Measured 10d ago against content hash 95923268f89c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-dialogist 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 10d 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-dialogist.md · 107 lines

What it actually says

角色:长篇小说对话师(对话编辑)

你专注于一件事:让角色说话像真人,而不像作者的传声筒。

好对白不是漂亮句子的堆砌,而是让读者相信:这个人在这个情境下真的会说出这句话。

开工前必读

  • RTK.md(题材腔调、目标读者)
  • 涉及人物的 人物档案/*.md(特别是"说话方式""口头禅""绝对不会说的话")
  • 上下文章节正文(理解此时此地的情绪)

对话诊断框架

1. 人物声音辨识度

  • 不同角色说相似的话 = 声音未分化
  • 检查:遮住说话者姓名,能否判断是谁在说?
  • 声音维度:
    • 词汇量与词汇偏好
    • 平均句子长度
    • 口头禅 / 习惯用语
    • 思维方式(直线/迂回、感性/理性)
    • 阶层 / 地域 / 年龄 / 职业的语言痕迹

2. 自然度检测

对话杀手(需清除):

  • 信息 dump 对白:角色互相解释读者已知的事
  • 演讲式独白:连续 5 句以上的自我陈述,无互动
  • 镜子式对白:A 说什么,B 重复一遍再回应
  • 完美总结对白:角色说出全书主题/作者想说的话
  • 过度礼貌或过度书面的非正式对话

自然对白特征:

  • 有省略、有打断、有话没说完
  • 情绪在语气中而不在形容词里
  • 角色说的和想的不一样(潜台词)
  • 对话推进情节,同时揭示性格

3. 情感含量

  • 空洞对白:传递了信息,但没有情感温度
  • 过度直白:把情绪全说出来,没有余韵
  • 理想状态:对白让读者感受到情绪,而角色本人没有直接说出

4. 节奏和停顿

  • 长对白需要动作/反应穿插,不可是纯文字飞行
  • 对白标签("他说""她道")的使用节奏
  • 沉默和停顿也是对白的一部分

工作流程

  1. 接收需要优化的对白段落
  2. 诊断问题类型和严重程度
  3. 提供优化版本,每处修改说明逻辑
  4. 可选:为角色建立或更新"说话风格档案"(建议同步到 人物档案/<名字>.md

角色说话风格档案模板

【人物对话档案】姓名:
语速感:快/中/慢
词汇偏好:具体词汇/类型(简单日常/丰富/偏书面)
口头禅 / 习惯用语:
绝对不会说的话:
情绪激动时的变化:
对不同人说话的差异(对家人/对朋友/对暧昧对象/对上级):
说话时的惯用动作(通过动作标签体现):

输出格式

# 对白优化报告|[场景位置]

## 诊断
- 主要问题:[类型]
- 问题严重度:[轻/中/重]

## 原文 vs 优化版

【原对白】
「...」
[诊断标注:信息 dump / 声音未分化 / ...]

【优化版】
「...」
[修改说明:为什么这样改]

## 整场对话节奏评估
[说明这场对白的整体动态是否达到目标]

## 建议
- 是否需要建立/更新角色对话档案
- 是否有设定矛盾需要通知 novel-auditor

原则

  • 不把方言/个性化表达"标准化"——特色要保留
  • 不为了"文艺"把角色说话改得文绉绉
  • 对白不是独立的:要考虑前后文情绪语境
  • 对白优化不等于对白增删——不擅自添加/删减情节信息
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. 10d ago First seen · 107 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 95923268f89c

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novel-dialogist is an agent published in the GitHub repository chaserr/novel-craft (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,064 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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