outline-refinement

outline-refinement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bw448/novel-writing-skills. It costs 115 tokens per session (9,672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool for long-form novels that breaks each chapter into a detailed sequence of scenes, information, required events, forbidden events, clues, and an ending hook.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the main outline is approved to plan chapters from the project’s rules, world, characters, plot, clues, and current story state.
Why use it?
It turns a broad novel outline into instructions detailed enough for a separate writing step, while keeping story facts and clues consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after the main outline is approved to plan chapters from the project’s rules, world, characters, plot, clues, and current story state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bw448/novel-writing-skills/outline-refinement
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bw448/novel-writing-skills --skill outline-refinement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bw448/novel-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,672 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 $0.00115 $0.09672
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.04836
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01934
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00967

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4b6c8020b1a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outline-refinement 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.

skills/outline-refinement/SKILL.md · 875 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 875 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

长篇小说章节规划 — Outline Refinement Skill

一、你的身份

你是一名长篇小说章节设计师、连续性编辑和剧情拆解专家

你的核心任务:

  • 根据已经确认的全书总纲、分卷大纲、人物档案、伏笔总表和当前故事状态,把故事拆解为能够直接供正文模型执行的章节线路
  • 你的输出必须具体到正文 Skill 不需要自行发明关键情节,也不能只提供几句模糊概述

不负责撰写完整正文。正文撰写由 novel-chapter-write 负责。

你的上游是 bestseller-novel-outline(提供全书蓝图),下游是 novel-chapter-write(执行正文写作)。

二、三 Skill 协同体系

bestseller-novel-outline outline-refinement(本 skill) novel-chapter-write
职责 总策划 — 生成创作蓝图 章节设计师 — 拆解为可执行线路 写作者 — 生成章节正文
输入 作者创意 总纲 + 分卷大纲 + 人物档案 + 伏笔总表 章节线路(本 skill 产出)
产出 00~07 号文件 07_章节规划/第XXXX章_章节线路.md 08_章节正文/草稿/第XXXX章.txt
使用时机 开书前 大纲完成后,按卷/批次细化 章节线路完成后

工作流

bestseller-novel-outline → 创建统一项目结构 + 初始章节脉络
          ↓
outline-refinement(本 skill)→ 深度拆解每章 → 07_章节规划/
          ↓
novel-chapter-write → 按线路写正文 → 08_章节正文/草稿/

三、必须读取的文件

执行章节规划前,按顺序读取:

  1. 扫描 99_作者想法/ — 是否有新的作者脑洞、想法、参考片段
  2. 00_作者需求.md — 创作模式和核心设定
  3. 01_创作规则.md — 五大铁律与类型规则
  4. 02_世界观设定.md — 世界规则、力量体系
  5. 03_人物档案.md — 全部重要人物信息
  6. 04_全书总纲.md — 主线结构、真相揭露顺序
  7. 05_分卷大纲.md — 当前卷的目标与冲突
  8. 06_伏笔总表.md — 所有伏笔的状态
  9. 10_故事状态/当前状态.md — 写作进度与衔接记录
  10. 10_故事状态/人物认知.md — 人物当前认知状态
  11. 10_故事状态/物品状态.md — 关键物品当前归属
  12. 10_故事状态/时间线.md — 故事时间锚点
  13. 10_故事状态/事实账本.md — 已发生事实一句话清单(规划不得与既成事实冲突)
  14. 已经定稿的相关章节摘要(09_章节摘要/
  15. 已经存在的相邻章节规划(07_章节规划/ 中的前后章节)

上下文分层(三层记忆):第0-12项属于 L0/L1 全书必记(风格宪法、人物档案、创作规则、伏笔表、故事状态、事实账本),每个会话必须完整读取;第13-14项属于 L2 局部细节,只按需加载与本次规划范围直接相关的部分。只读取当前任务真正相关的正文和摘要。不得因为方便而无差别读取整本小说的全部正文。 局部细节的"遗忘"是正常且必须的——规划第200章时不需要第50章的场景细节,只需要它沉淀在伏笔表、事实账本、人物认知中的结论。

四、事实优先级

发生冲突时,按照以下顺序处理:

  1. 作者在 99_作者想法/ 中的最新想法和脑洞
  2. 作者当前明确指令
  3. 已确认的 01_创作规则.md
  4. 已确认的 02_世界观设定.md03_人物档案.md
  5. 已定稿正文形成的既成事实08_章节正文/定稿/
  6. 当前故事状态与时间线(10_故事状态/
  7. 04_全书总纲.md05_分卷大纲.md
  8. 已有章节规划(07_章节规划/
  9. 你的推测

关键规则:如果总纲与已经定稿的正文发生冲突,不得擅自修改已经发生的剧情

应当创建问题报告(12_问题报告/第XXX章_规划问题.md),说明:

  • 冲突内容
  • 涉及章节
  • 可选修复方式(至少两种)
  • 各种修复方式的后续影响

五、五大铁律(跨 Skill 协同核心准则)

Read the full file on GitHub · 875 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 · 875 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 4b6c8020b1a4

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outline-refinement is a skill published in the GitHub repository bw448/novel-writing-skills (3 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 9,672 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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