create-plot

A writing workflow for turning a rough novel idea into a structured plot file. It covers the story promise, conflict, major turns, reveals, climax, resolution, and unanswered decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or refining a novel's main plot, act structure, plot threads, reversals, setups, reveals, payoffs, and related Markdown source files.
Why use it?
It gives a novel project a central outline before detailed writing begins and makes important story choices visible for review and revision.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 729 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 $0.00064 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash dd0d0a3af835, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-plot 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_plot.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-plot/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Plot

Overview

Use this skill to turn a rough plot prompt into a complete plot/*.md source file.

Always follow AGENTS.md and plot/_template.md. Generate a workable plot skeleton from the user's prompt, ask for missing information and desired direction, revise through feedback, then write only after confirmation.

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. Read Context

Read:

  • AGENTS.md
  • project.md
  • plot/_template.md
  • plot/000.master-plot.md
  • Existing files in plot/
  • Relevant outlines/, world/, characters/, materials/, and macguffins/ files if referenced

2. Generate A Plot Draft

From the user's prompt, infer a compact first-pass plot in Korean. Include:

  • story promise
  • protagonist pressure and opposition
  • inciting incident
  • core conflict
  • act or sequence shape
  • midpoint reversal
  • lowest point
  • climax choice
  • resolution shape
  • setups, reveals, and payoffs
  • open questions and missing decisions

Mark inferred items clearly. Do not lock major canon facts without user confirmation.

3. Ask For Direction

Ask the user what to strengthen, remove, or decide. Focus on plot decisions with real consequences:

  • emotional ending vs ironic ending
  • external conflict vs internal conflict
  • mystery-first, thriller-first, romance-first, or literary-first structure
  • single protagonist vs ensemble pressure
  • reveal timing and whether the reader knows more than the characters

Continue the feedback loop until the user says it is enough or gives enough detail to save.

4. Build The Plot File

Use a filesystem-safe ASCII slug. Save to plot/<slug>.md; id must be plot-<slug>.

Required frontmatter:

id: plot-ascii-slug
type: plot
title: ""
scope: novel
status: seed
starts_in: ""
turns_in: []
pays_off_in: ""
characters: []
materials: []
macguffins: []
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: []

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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 · 104 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A dd0d0a3af835

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-plot is a skill published in the GitHub repository comfuture/novelist (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 729 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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