novel-init

novel-init is a skill for Claude Code from chaserr/novel-craft. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,305 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A starter workflow for creating a new long-form fiction project and its core planning files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It collects the book’s title, genre, audience, tone, characters, platform, and planned length, then creates files for rules, outlines, summaries, plot threads, quotations, character profiles, and writing techniques.
Why use it?
It gives a novel project a shared structure before writing begins, so later writing, reviewing, and continuity work have the needed context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the novel-craft plugin — 6 skills, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit It collects the book’s title, genre, audience, tone, characters, platform, and planned length, then creates files for rules, outlines, summaries, plot threads, quotations, character profiles, and writing techniques.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add chaserr/novel-craft
Claude Code
/plugin install novel-craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install novel-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 12 agents.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 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 $0.00090 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00130

Measured yesterday against content hash 5dc5a2e96d80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-init 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 yesterday.

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/novel-init/SKILL.md · 76 lines

What it actually says

novel-init

用途:为一个新长篇小说项目搭建标准目录与核心资料骨架。后续 novel-write / novel-sync / novel-review 都依赖这里产出的文件。

建议先跑 novel-plan:在初始化之前,先用 novel-plan 做顶层立项(核心钩子 / 设定 / 升级套路 / 最终结局 / 分卷大纲 / 写作思路 + 设定压测)。把"这本书的骨架和结局"想清楚,再来 novel-init 搭目录、把立项产物填进模板。跳过立项直接 init,容易开局设定不牢、后期烂尾。

先决条件

  • 在小说项目目录(或希望成为项目根的目录)下运行。
  • plugin 模板在 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/ 下。

执行步骤

1. 通过 AskUserQuestion 收集项目元信息

逐项询问,不可全部默认:

字段 说明 是否必填
书名 临时名也可,后续可改 必填
题材标签 例:校园青春 / 都市悬疑 / 古风武侠 / 硬科幻 / 历史 / 都市言情 必填
目标读者画像 年龄段 + 性别倾向 + 阅读偏好 必填
核心气质(≤5 个) 例:温暖治愈 / 青春遗憾 / 现实写实 / 暗黑悬疑 必填
主线人物(≥1 个) 主角姓名 + 一句话设定 必填
写作平台 起点 / 番茄 / 晋江 / 出版向 / 私人创作(影响节奏期待) 必填
篇幅预期 短篇 30 章内 / 中长 30-80 章 / 长篇 80+ 章 必填
是否多书同宇宙 是 / 否(影响客串设定文件) 选填

2. 渲染模板到项目根目录

用上面收集到的字段填充模板,写入项目根目录。模板都在 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/ 下:

模板文件 目标路径 说明
RTK.md ./RTK.md 项目级写作规则(题材气质 + 工作流 + 文风 + 同步规则)
AGENTS.md ./AGENTS.md 引用 RTK.md 的入口文件,Claude Code 自动加载
小说大纲.md ./小说大纲.md 全书骨架(待补)
章节大纲.md ./章节大纲.md 逐章节点(待补)
前情梳理.md ./前情梳理.md 已写章节的滚动摘要
伏笔清单.md ./伏笔清单.md 已埋/已收伏笔台账
经典语录.md ./经典语录.md 留得下的句子
人物档案/人物模板.md ./人物档案/<主角>.md 每个主线人物各生成一份
写作技巧/README.md ./写作技巧/README.md 写作技法沉淀目录(项目过程中累积)
审稿报告/README.md ./审稿报告/README.md 审稿报告沉淀目录

3. 渲染规则

模板里所有形如 {{字段名}} 的占位符都用第 1 步收集到的值替换。如果某字段是"选填"且用户未填,删除该占位所在的整行(或整段,看模板里的注释)。

4. 生成最终输出

输出一个清单告诉用户:

  • 生成了哪些文件
  • 哪些是"骨架待补"(小说大纲 / 章节大纲 / 人物档案细节)
  • 推荐的下一步动作(建议先补完小说大纲再开始写第 1 章)

红线

  • 如果项目根目录已存在 RTK.md不要覆盖——询问用户是要"覆盖 / 跳过 / 重命名为 RTK.<时间戳>.md"。
  • 模板里所有题材专属示例(如校园场景符号库)只是参考——用户题材不匹配时,让用户在 RTK.md 里手动改。
  • 不擅自填充人物档案中"已发生事件"等正文派生字段——这些必须等正文落地后由 novel-sync 同步。

触发示例

  • "初始化小说项目"
  • "新建长篇小说"
  • "起一个新坑,校园青春题材"
  • "/novel-init"
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. yesterday Changed · +2 lines 5dc5a2e96d80
  2. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A e62977a9855e

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novel-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository chaserr/novel-craft (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,305 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.