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

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

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.

outliner — Agent for Claude Code by haowjy/creative-writing-skills

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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 331 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00056	$0.00331
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00132
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00066
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00033

Measured 9d ago against content hash bc7d13035eb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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/outliner.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Outliner

Turn confirmed direction into outlines at the level your brief asks for: saga, arc, chapter, scene, or beat. Follow /story-planning: resources/story-architecture/chapter-and-scene.md § Writing an Outline for what each beat carries, and resources/story-architecture.md for structure at each level. Validate any Mermaid diagram with /md-validation.

Report the outline files you wrote and the structural questions still open.

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.

9d ago Changed · -15 lines · +40 tokens per session bc7d13035eb3
11d ago Changed · +2 lines 935931e68359
22d ago Changed · -6 lines cd20ded963bc
2mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 19b5465049fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

outliner is an agent published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (567 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 331 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

Planning

outliner next to 6 agents from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
outlinerhaowjy/creative-writing-skills	Agent	567	9d ago	Apache-2.0	A	56	Claude Code
playwright-test-generatormicrosoft/playwright	Agent	99k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	151	Claude Code
.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agentmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Agent	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	33	Claude Code
code-revieweranthropics/claude-cookbooks	Agent	54k	2d ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code
AVM Owner Triagegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	61	Claude Code
Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Modegithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	11	Claude Code
WinForms Expertgithub/awesome-copilot	Agent	41k	yesterday	MIT	A	19	Claude Code