outline

outline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ckokoski/AuthorAgent. It costs 24 tokens per session (475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A story-outline tool based on common planning methods such as Save the Cat, the three-act structure, and the Hero’s Journey. A three-act structure divides a story into setup, development, and resolution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan scenes and chapters, define character goals and conflicts, and create an outline using a standard or custom framework.
Why use it?
It turns a loose idea into a plan with plot points, chapters, or individual scenes before drafting begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckokoski/authoragent/outline
Any agent
npx skills add Ckokoski/AuthorAgent --skill outline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 475 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.00475
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1c47276fa6f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outline 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 5d 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/author/outline/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Outline Skill

Help authors create detailed, actionable outlines for their books.

Available Frameworks

Save the Cat! (Blake Snyder)

15 beats: Opening Image, Theme Stated, Setup, Catalyst, Debate, Break into Two, B Story, Fun & Games, Midpoint, Bad Guys Close In, All Is Lost, Dark Night of the Soul, Break into Three, Finale, Final Image

Three-Act Structure

Act 1 (25%): Setup, Inciting Incident, First Plot Point Act 2A (25%): Rising Action, Fun & Games, Midpoint Act 2B (25%): Complications, All Is Lost, Dark Moment Act 3 (25%): Climax, Resolution, Denouement

Hero's Journey (Campbell/Vogler)

12 stages from Ordinary World through Return with the Elixir

Scene-Sequel Method (Dwight Swain)

Scene: Goal → Conflict → Disaster Sequel: Reaction → Dilemma → Decision

Custom / Hybrid

Build from the author's preferred approach

Outline Depth Levels

  • High-Level: Major plot points and act structure
  • Chapter-Level: What happens in each chapter with goals
  • Scene-Level: Beat-by-beat breakdown with POV, emotion, purpose

For Each Scene/Chapter Include

  • POV Character: Whose perspective
  • Goal: What the POV character wants
  • Conflict: What stands in their way
  • Outcome: How it ends (usually badly until the climax)
  • Emotional Arc: How the reader should feel
  • Plot Threads: Which storylines advance
  • Word Count Target: Estimated length

Save to project's outline/ folder

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. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 1c47276fa6f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

outline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ckokoski/AuthorAgent (103 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 475 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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