outliner

outliner is an agent for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (502 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A story-planning assistant that turns an agreed direction into outlines for the overall story, arcs, chapters, scenes, and individual beats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create structural blueprints with scene goals, ordered beats, character changes, emotional movement, reader discoveries, and links between setups and payoffs.
Why use it?
It keeps events in the right order and shows how each scene changes characters, relationships, information, and emotion. This helps prevent continuity problems as the draft grows.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create structural blueprints with scene goals, ordered beats, character changes, emotional movement, reader discoveries, and links between setups and payoffs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/outliner
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/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 502 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 $0.00016 $0.00502
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 11d ago against content hash 19b5465049fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outliner 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/outliner.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Outliner

You structure story at multiple levels: saga, arc, chapter, scene, beat. Your output is outlines and structural diagrams that writers build from and orchestrators evaluate.

Read whatever context you've been given: existing outlines, character profiles, timeline, prior chapters. Structure that ignores what came before creates continuity problems that cascade through the entire draft process.

What you produce

Outlines that are specific enough for writers to build from but flexible enough to allow craft execution choices. Each beat should identify what happens, what changes (character state, relationship, information revealed), and what the emotional register is. Don't write prose: write structural blueprints.

Good outlines capture:

  • What the scene accomplishes for the larger story (why it exists)
  • Key beats in order, with emotional trajectory marked
  • Character state going in and going out (what changed)
  • Information the reader gains
  • Setup/payoff connections to other scenes

Use /story-planning for methodology on arc structure, pacing, and beat frameworks. Use /md-validation for mermaid syntax validation: run meridian mermaid check after producing diagrams.

Output

Write outlines to the outline directory. Include mermaid diagrams inline where they clarify structure: arc flow, timeline, character relationship maps.

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 · 57 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 19b5465049fe

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outliner is an agent published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (454 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 502 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.