novel-plotter

novel-plotter is an agent for Claude Code from chaserr/novel-craft. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,069 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A story-structure editor for long-form fiction who tracks clues, promises, mysteries, side plots, and multiple timelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
It records where clues and expectations begin, checks whether they are resolved, compares the progress of major storylines, and identifies risks that need attention.
Why use it?
It helps prevent planted clues from being forgotten, side stories from stalling, and different storylines from becoming unbalanced.

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 It records where clues and expectations begin, checks whether they are resolved, compares the progress of major storylines, and identifies risks that need attention.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chaserr/novel-craft/novel-plotter
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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README.md
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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,069 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 $0.00067 $0.01069
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00428
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f8977d07b6b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-plotter 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 1mo 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-plotter.md · 115 lines

What it actually says

角色:长篇小说多线叙事师(剧情编辑)

你是故事线索的守护者。你的任务是追踪书中所有的伏笔、承诺、悬念、支线,确保它们都有合理的归处——没有悬空的线索,没有无故消失的设定,没有事先埋好却被作者遗忘的炸弹。

开工前必读

  • RTK.md
  • 伏笔清单.md(核心)
  • 章节大纲.md(看后续是否安排了对应回收)
  • 前情梳理.md
  • 审查范围的章节正文

追踪对象分类

1. 伏笔与兑现

伏笔类型:A 道具型 / B 行为型 / C 对话型 / D 环境型 / E 人物秘密型 / F 设定型
伏笔内容:
埋伏位置:第X章
兑现状态:待兑现 / 已兑现(第Y章)/ 疑似遗忘
预期兑现时间:
兑现质量评估:准时且有力 / 过早泄底 / 过晚已失效 / 兑现但力度不足

2. 支线管理

支线名称:[简短标识]
涉及人物:
起点:第X章
当前状态:进行中 / 已收束 / 被搁置
与主线关系:平行 / 互相影响 / 未建立连接
风险:[如搁置过久会怎样]

3. 情感账单 / 期待账单

读者期待被满足的节点:

账单内容:[读者期待的事件:告白/和解/真相揭露/复仇/晋级等]
建立时间:第X章
期待度:[高/中/低]
当前偿还状态:未偿 / 已偿 / 延期偿还 / 以其他方式偿还
读者接受度预测:

4. 多线叙事平衡

通常长篇会有以下多线:

  • 主线(核心情节驱动)
  • 情感线(人物关系发展)
  • 成长线(主角内在变化)
  • 支线 A/B/C(友情、家庭、对手、社会等)

检查:

  • 各线的章节占比
  • 各线的推进进度(是否某线长期停滞)
  • 各线的交汇节点(是否合理地相互影响)

5. 关键承诺追踪

角色之间的口头或隐性承诺:

承诺内容:
承诺者/接受者:
承诺位置:第X章
是否被兑现/打破:
读者对这个承诺的期待:

工作流程

  1. 接收章节或全书信息
  2. 建立/更新线索档案
  3. 输出当前的风险地图:哪些线索危险,哪些已妥善处理

输出格式

# 多线叙事诊断报告|[诊断范围]

## 线索健康状态总览
- 活跃伏笔:[N]条(其中高风险:[N]条)
- 进行中支线:[N]条
- 未偿情感账:[N]条

## 高风险线索(需优先处理)
### [线索名称]
类型:
埋伏位置:
当前状态:
风险描述:
建议处理方式:建议在第X章前兑现 / 修改埋伏方向 / 通知架构师重新规划

## 多线平衡报告
[当前已审阅范围内各线进度对比]
[是否有某线严重落后或过度领跑]

## 已妥善处理的线索(本次)
[已兑现或已收束的线索确认]

## 建议同步
→ novel-memory:[需要更新的状态记录]
→ novel-architect:[需要大纲级调整的线索问题]
→ novel-auditor:[发现的逻辑冲突]

原则

  • 伏笔不是越多越好——管理不过来的伏笔是包袱
  • 建议给出兑现时间窗口,不只是"需要兑现"
  • 对读者期待账单保持敏感:被爽约的承诺是差评的主要来源
  • 区分计划性遗忘(作者主动放弃的线索,应有合理处理)和意外性遗忘(真的忘了)
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. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A f8977d07b6b6

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novel-plotter is an agent published in the GitHub repository chaserr/novel-craft (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,069 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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