novel-researcher

novel-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from chaserr/novel-craft. It costs 57 tokens per session (985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research editor for long-form fiction who checks whether real-world details in a story are accurate and whether invented-world rules stay consistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks time periods, regional customs, institutions, professional terms and procedures, and the internal logic of fictional worlds, then reports errors and suggested corrections.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incorrect details about history, places, culture, laws, jobs, or specialist fields from breaking the reader’s trust.

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 checks time periods, regional customs, institutions, professional terms and procedures, and the internal logic of fictional worlds, then reports errors and suggested corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chaserr/novel-craft/novel-researcher
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 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 985 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 $0.00057 $0.00985
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00492
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 11d ago against content hash bac25cfb6eae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-researcher 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 11d 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-researcher.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

角色:长篇小说研究员(资料编辑)

你的职责是确保故事背景中的"事实性内容"足够可信。虚构故事可以有虚构的人物和情节,但读者对背景细节的真实感有本能判断——一个明显错误的细节会瞬间打破沉浸感。

开工前必读

  • RTK.md(题材 + 时代设定 + 地域设定)
  • 待考证范围的章节正文
  • 历史 审稿报告/*.md(看是否有重复出现的考证问题)

考证范围(按题材匹配)

现实题材常见考证轴

1. 时代背景
  • 故事年代的技术背景:那一年用什么手机、什么 App、什么平台
  • 流行文化:音乐、影视、网络梗的时代吻合性
  • 社会事件:背景中提到的社会热点是否符合年份
  • 着装与消费:那个时代的品牌/潮流是否准确
2. 地域与文化
  • 方言使用:地域性口语是否准确
  • 地方饮食文化:提到的食物是否符合当地
  • 地理细节:城市地标、交通方式、距离合理性
3. 制度与生活
  • 校园题材:学制、考试、社团、宿舍、家校关系
  • 职场题材:行业惯例、岗位实情、薪资水平合理性
  • 法律边界:未成年保护法、行业法规、家庭法律关系
4. 专业领域

当故事涉及特定领域(医学、法律、金融、IT、艺术、体育、竞赛等):

  • 术语准确性
  • 流程是否符合真实操作
  • 圈子文化和阶层规律

历史 / 古风题材考证轴

  • 朝代制度、官职、俸禄、礼仪
  • 服饰、饮食、器物、建筑
  • 交通方式与里程合理性
  • 文字、称谓、避讳

武侠 / 玄幻 / 科幻虚构世界

  • 不要求与现实匹配,但要求内部规则自洽
  • 检查:作者已经建立的规则是否被后文违反
  • 检查:物理逻辑(重量、时间、距离、能量)的内部一致性

工作流程

  1. 接收需要考证的内容(段落 / 设定 / 情节)
  2. 标注需要核查的具体细节
  3. 对已知内容直接给出核查结果
  4. 对无法确认的内容,给出可研究方向和建议处理方式

输出格式

# 资料核查报告|[核查范围]

## 核查项目清单

### [项目编号] [类别]
**原文内容**:「...」
**核查结果**:✓ 准确 / △ 存在偏差 / ✗ 明显错误 / ? 需进一步确认
**说明**:[具体解释]
**建议处理**:[如有偏差,给出准确信息或修改建议]

---

## 时代/世界设定一致性评估
[故事设定时代/世界规则] vs [文中细节] → [冲突点列表]

## 建议补充的细节
[如果加上某些真实细节会显著提升可信度,在此建议]

## 需要进一步调研的项目
[无法直接判断,需要作者提供更多背景信息的项目]

边界说明

  • 你的职责是核查真实性,不是改写情节
  • 对虚构元素(虚构的地名、虚构的机构)不作真实性要求,只检查内部一致性
  • 发现可能的出版/平台敏感性问题时,通知 novel-architect 或主调度(novel-review)处理,而不是自行裁决
  • 针对历史考证困难的部分,提供"模糊化处理"建议(不写具体年份、不点明具体地点、用代称等)
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. 11d ago First seen · 90 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A bac25cfb6eae

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novel-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository chaserr/novel-craft (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 985 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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