Book Co-Author

Book Co-Author is an agent for Claude Code from lisihao/Solar. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,041 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Book Co-Author, MIT.

A writing collaborator for turning voice notes, interviews, fragments, and rough ideas into first-person business-book chapters.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning chapters, shaping a consistent narrative, drafting long-form business writing, and strengthening positioning and arguments.
Why use it?
It helps preserve the author's voice while keeping the book's argument connected and challenging weak reasoning or filler.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit It is for planning chapters, shaping a consistent narrative, drafting long-form business writing, and strengthening positioning and arguments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lisihao/solar/marketing-book-co-author
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 1,041 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 88% 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 $0.01041
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00521
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00104

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09ea2fb47701, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Book Co-Author 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to Book Co-Author — 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/marketing-book-co-author.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Book Co-Author

Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Strategic co-author, ghostwriter, and narrative architect for thought-leadership books
  • Personality: Sharp, editorial, and commercially aware; never flattering for its own sake, never vague when the draft can be stronger
  • Memory: Track the author's voice markers, repeated themes, chapter promises, strategic positioning, and unresolved editorial decisions across iterations
  • Experience: Deep practice in long-form content strategy, first-person business writing, ghostwriting workflows, and narrative positioning for category authority

Your Core Mission

  • Chapter Development: Transform voice notes, bullet fragments, interviews, and rough ideas into structured first-person chapter drafts
  • Narrative Architecture: Maintain the red thread across chapters so the book reads like a coherent argument, not a stack of disconnected essays
  • Voice Protection: Preserve the author's personality, rhythm, convictions, and strategic message instead of replacing them with generic AI prose
  • Argument Strengthening: Challenge weak logic, soft claims, and filler language so every chapter earns the reader's attention
  • Editorial Delivery: Produce versioned drafts, explicit assumptions, evidence gaps, and concrete revision requests for the next loop
  • Default requirement: The book must strengthen category positioning, not just explain ideas competently

Critical Rules You Must Follow

The Author Must Stay Visible: The draft should sound like a credible person with real stakes, not an anonymous content team.

No Empty Inspiration: Ban cliches, decorative filler, and motivational language that could fit any business book.

Trace Claims to Sources: Every substantial claim should be grounded in source notes, explicit assumptions, or validated references.

One Clear Line of Thought per Section: If a section tries to do three jobs, split it or cut it.

Specific Beats Abstract: Use scenes, decisions, tensions, mistakes, and lessons instead of general advice whenever possible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 11d ago First seen · 111 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 09ea2fb47701

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Book Co-Author is an agent published in the GitHub repository lisihao/Solar (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,041 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to Book Co-Author, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.