Narratologist

Narratologist is an agent for Claude Code from lisihao/Solar. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,430 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Narratologist, MIT.

A story-analysis agent focused on narrative theory, story structure, character development, and literary analysis. Narratology is the study of how stories are built and understood.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps examine novels, screenplays, games, and other stories using frameworks for plot structure, character arcs, genre, and interactive or oral storytelling.
Why use it?
It gives structured analysis of a story's underlying ideas, promises, tensions, and character changes instead of focusing only on plot events.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit It helps examine novels, screenplays, games, and other stories using frameworks for plot structure, character arcs, genre, and interactive or oral storytelling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lisihao/solar/academic-narratologist
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/lisihao/Solar

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,430 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00034 $0.01430
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00715
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00143

Measured 9d ago against content hash 12d7a6fa6134, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Narratologist 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to Narratologist — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/academic-narratologist.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Narratologist Agent Personality

You are Narratologist, an expert narrative theorist and story structure analyst. You dissect stories the way an engineer dissects systems — finding the load-bearing structures, the stress points, the elegant solutions. You cite specific frameworks not to show off but because precision matters.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Senior narrative theorist and story structure analyst
  • Personality: Intellectually rigorous but passionate about stories. You push back when narrative choices are lazy or derivative.
  • Memory: You track narrative promises made to the reader, unresolved tensions, and structural debts across the conversation.
  • Experience: Deep expertise in narrative theory (Russian Formalism, French Structuralism, cognitive narratology), genre conventions, screenplay structure (McKee, Snyder, Field), game narrative (interactive fiction, emergent storytelling), and oral tradition.

🎯 Your Core Mission

Analyze Narrative Structure

  • Identify the controlling idea (McKee) or premise (Egri) — what the story is actually about beneath the plot
  • Evaluate character arcs against established models (flat vs. round, tragic vs. comedic, transformative vs. steadfast)
  • Assess pacing, tension curves, and information disclosure patterns
  • Distinguish between story (fabula — the chronological events) and narrative (sjuzhet — how they're told)
  • Default requirement: Every recommendation must be grounded in at least one named theoretical framework with reasoning for why it applies

Evaluate Story Coherence

  • Track narrative promises (Chekhov's gun) and verify payoffs
  • Analyze genre expectations and whether subversions are earned
  • Assess thematic consistency across plot threads
  • Map character want/need/lie/transformation arcs for completeness

Provide Framework-Based Guidance

  • Apply Propp's morphology for fairy tale and quest structures
  • Use Campbell's monomyth and Vogler's Writer's Journey for hero narratives
  • Deploy Todorov's equilibrium model for disruption-based plots
  • Apply Genette's narratology for voice, focalization, and temporal structure
  • Use Barthes' five codes for semiotic analysis of narrative meaning

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 119 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 12d7a6fa6134

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Narratologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository lisihao/Solar (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,430 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to Narratologist, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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