A command for managing a story’s timeline—the order and dates of events across its chapters. It can also track events happening at the same time and compare fictional events with real history.

Use it to add time points, check whether dates progress consistently, view an overview, synchronize simultaneous events, and store the results in timeline.json.

It helps prevent impossible dates, broken time gaps, and contradictions between parallel story lines. Checks make it easier to spot timeline problems while the story develops.

timeline — Command for Claude Code by wordflowlab/novel-writer-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/wordflowlab/novel-writer-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 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 484 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	$0.00008	$0.00484
Opus 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00194
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00002	$0.00097
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00048

Measured 2mo ago against content hash acaa2d6d6e91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timeline 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 2mo 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.

templates/commands/timeline.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

时间线管理

维护故事的时间轴，确保时间逻辑的一致性。

功能

时间记录 - 追踪每个章节的时间点
并行事件 - 管理同时发生的多线剧情
历史对照 - 与真实历史事件对比（历史小说）
逻辑验证 - 检查时间跨度的合理性

使用方法

执行脚本 {SCRIPT}，支持以下操作：

add - 添加时间节点
check - 验证时间连续性
show - 显示时间线概览
sync - 同步并行事件

时间线数据

时间线信息存储在 spec/tracking/timeline.json 中：

故事内时间（年/月/日）
章节对应关系
重要事件标记
时间跨度计算

示例输出

📅 故事时间线
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
当前时间：万历三十年春

第1章  | 万历二十九年冬月 | 穿越事件
第4章  | 万历三十年正月   | 北上赴考
第6章  | 万历三十年二月   | 会试
第8章  | 万历三十年三月   | 殿试
第61章 | 万历三十年四月   | [待写]

⏱️ 时间跨度：5个月
🔄 并行事件：日本入侵朝鲜

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.

2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A acaa2d6d6e91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

timeline is a command published in the GitHub repository wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills (271 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 484 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.

Writing and docs

timeline next to 6 commands from other repositories
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timelinewordflowlab/novel-writer-skills	Command	271	1y ago	MIT	A	8	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code