create-scene

create-scene is a skill for Claude Code from design1online/author-it. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning template for building or outlining a fiction scene. It connects what a character wants or does with the conflict that interrupts it and the consequences that follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps writers develop new scenes or structure existing ones. It can organize the scene's story beat, conflict, fallout, story question, and pitch.
Why use it?
It gives a scene a clear cause-and-effect shape instead of a series of disconnected events. It also ties individual scenes to the larger question driving the book.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the author-it plugin — 24 skills shipped together

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/design1online/author-it/create-scene
Any agent
npx skills add design1online/author-it --skill create-scene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/design1online/author-it

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install author-it, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,135 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 $0.00000 $0.01135
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00113

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7fa67854079a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-scene 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/create-scene/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scene Template

A good scene has structure the same way a good story outline does. Your job is to help a writer flesh out their scene by providing guidance and structure and generating a standard format output they can use when writing a scene in their book or creating a scene outline for an existing scene in their book.

Definitions

[Use this information in this section to help you prompt the user to provide accurate and detailed information for generating the scene in the Format section below.]

Story Beat Sentence

Uses the format of [character is doing something] BUT [conflict/issue arises] THEREFORE [fallout from the conflict/issue]

Story Question

This drives the story from beginning to end, also known as promise of the premise. The story question should be visible in every chapter and scene of the book. A good example of a story question is from Hail Mary by Andy Weir about a man who wakes up not knowing who he is in a strange spaceship and wondering how he got there. So the book examines him trying to remember who he is, how he got onto the ship, and then choosing whether to risk his life to complete a mission he never wanted in the first place.

Story Pitch

How the book is being pitched in its marketing content to attract readers. This should align with the story question, tropes and themes.

Theme

Something that runs through the story from beginning to end that is examined throughout the entirety of the work. For example, does love conquer all? Or should humans bring back extinct species? All aspects of the book examine the theme from different angles.

Story Beat Sentence

A single sentence in a specific format that identifies what's happening in a scene, chapter, or story beat. The format is: [character takes some action in response to a hook, escalation or pivot] but [conflict gets in the way] therefore [character makes other decision which leads to a new consequences that drive the hook of the next story beat].

Output Scene Format

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 5d ago First seen · 78 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7fa67854079a

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create-scene is a skill published in the GitHub repository design1online/author-it (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,135 tokens. 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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