novel-story-telling

novel-story-telling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from comfuture/novelist. It costs 150 tokens per session (3,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for planning, writing, and revising a complete novel stored as Markdown files, a plain-text format. It covers the flow between chapters, rising conflict, reveals, foreshadowing, and continuity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or draft chapters, revise scenes, manage story facts, control reveals and conflict, and prepare the handoff to the next chapter.
Why use it?
A novel can lose its direction when chapters do not connect or story facts change accidentally. This keeps the overall story structure and established details aligned.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the novelist plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan or draft chapters, revise scenes, manage story facts, control reveals and conflict, and prepare the handoff to the next chapter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/comfuture/novelist/novel-story-telling
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install novelist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,940 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 $0.00150 $0.03940
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01970
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00788
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00394

Measured 11d ago against content hash 847f60e41b18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-story-telling 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/build_story_context.py, scripts/check_continuity.py, scripts/story_io.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/novel-story-telling/SKILL.md · 327 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 327 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Novel Story Telling

Before running a bundled command, resolve <skill-dir> to the absolute directory containing this SKILL.md. Keep --project-root pointed at the active novel workspace, not at the skill or plugin installation.

Operating Contract

Treat chapters/ as manuscript canon and all other source directories as planning and continuity evidence. Follow AGENTS.md. Never edit published/ as source.

Write all agent instructions, temporary prompts, schemas, and script inputs in English. Write manuscript prose and author-facing creative output in this order of precedence:

  1. the language explicitly requested by the author;
  2. project.md language;
  3. style/000.style-guide.md language;
  4. the dominant language of recent chapters.

Preserve names, honorifics, invented terms, and spelling from canonical files. Do not translate them unless requested.

Resolve conflicts by authority: explicit author direction > final source > revision source > latest manuscript fact > draft source > outline or seed. Report unresolved conflicts; do not silently choose or invent canon.

Analytical Review Routing Boundary

Keep analytical review separate from ordinary planning, drafting, and revision. Do not invoke analytical-review unless the author explicitly requests critique/review or explicitly delegates the complete autonomous novel lifecycle from initial planning through publication.

For that fully autonomous start-to-publication request only, after all chapters are drafted and before calling publish-novel:

  1. run whole-manuscript analytical-review;
  2. record each material finding as apply, defer, or reject with a concise rationale;
  3. apply selected findings through this storytelling workflow and update canon;
  4. run one bounded analytical regression review;
  5. complete strict continuity validation;
  6. call publish-novel for deterministic packaging.

An ordinary request to finish remaining chapters, revise known material, or publish an existing manuscript does not by itself authorize this loop. If the author explicitly asks for review and revision together, keep diagnosis and application distinct and preserve finding IDs through the handoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 327 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 · 327 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 847f60e41b18

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novel-story-telling is a skill published in the GitHub repository comfuture/novelist (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 3,940 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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