create-character

A guide for creating fictional character files from a character brief. It records details such as a character's role, personality, background, relationships, motives, secrets, and place in the plot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to invent, refine, name, and save characters connected to the story's setting, relationships, motivations, and plot.
Why use it?
Character details can become inconsistent as a novel grows. Keeping them in structured source files makes important facts easier to reuse and check.

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/comfuture/novelist/create-character
Any agent
npx skills add comfuture/novelist --skill create-character
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/comfuture/novelist

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,178 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 $0.00063 $0.01178
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00118

Measured 2d ago against content hash c4cb8e0f987f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-character 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/write_character.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/novelist/skills/create-character/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Character

Overview

Use this skill to turn a rough character brief into a complete characters/*.md source file for this novel project.

Always follow the project's AGENTS.md and characters/_template.md. Keep the process interactive: refine the character first, then run a naming loop, then write the file only after the user confirms the final direction.

Before running a bundled command, resolve <skill-dir> to the absolute directory containing this SKILL.md. This keeps the same skill usable from either the repository-local skill tree or the Novelist plugin.

Workflow

1. Gather And Reflect The Brief

Read existing context before asking questions:

  • AGENTS.md
  • project.md
  • characters/_template.md
  • Existing files in characters/
  • Relevant plot/, outlines/, world/, materials/, or macguffins/ files when the user references them

Restate the supplied role, character traits, and setting in Korean. Include:

  • story role
  • social role or occupation
  • personality and behavioral texture
  • era, region, class, language, nationality, and cultural background
  • gender, including whether the character is gender-neutral
  • relationship or plot function
  • secrets, desires, conflicts, or contradictions if present

Ask what the user wants to add, remove, or sharpen. Continue this prompt loop until the user says it is enough or gives enough detail to proceed.

Do not create the character file during this stage.

2. Recommend Names

After the brief is sufficiently refined, propose about 10 names with short reasons.

Naming rules:

  • If the character is Korean or lives as a Korean character in South Korea, recommend plausible Korean names in Hangul with family name and given name.
  • If the setting gives a specific Korean era, region, class, or dialect background, reflect that context in the name choice and explain the reasoning.
  • If the character is not Korean, keep both the original-language name and the Korean reading for use in the novel.
  • If the original script is relevant, include it. Example: Aleksandr Mikhailov / 알렉산드르 미하일로프.
  • If only a romanized original is appropriate, still include a Korean reading.
  • Avoid copying the exact identity of a real living person unless the user explicitly requests a real person.
  • Avoid joke names, overly symbolic names, and famous-name collisions unless the user asks for them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 140 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c4cb8e0f987f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-character is a skill published in the GitHub repository comfuture/novelist (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,178 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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