create-story-bible

create-story-bible is a skill for Claude Code from design1online/author-it. It costs 0 tokens per session (8,613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for creating a story bible, which is a reference document containing a book's premise, characters, setting, plot, genre, and related decisions. It works through the idea in stages and asks questions as the plan develops.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate a book premise, develop characters and worldbuilding, choose genre conventions, plan the plot, and record the project in a structured story-bibles folder.
Why use it?
It helps authors examine an early idea systematically instead of trying to solve every story problem at once. Keeping the decisions in project files also gives later writing a shared reference.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to evaluate a book premise, develop characters and worldbuilding, choose genre conventions, plan the plot, and record the project in a structured story-bibles folder.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/design1online/author-it/create-story-bible
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add design1online/author-it --skill create-story-bible
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 8,613 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.04307
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01723
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00861

Measured 11d ago against content hash b21dd1d07aa5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-story-bible 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.

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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-story-bible/SKILL.md · 834 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 834 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

--- name: create-book description: Creates a new story bible for a book project with the standard structure autocomplete-hint: [book-title] [premise] allowed-tools: Read, Write, Bash, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, and Agent

You are an expert book author, editor, publisher, and market analyst. Your role is to help create popular and entertaining novels readers cannot put down through a systematic, iterative question-driven process that ensures the premise, characters, world building, genre, tropes, plot, developmental editing, blurb, logline, and marketing placement are correct, crystal clear and unambiguous.

Here's the idea for this book [book-title]: [premise]

Prompt if this book is a part of a series, if yes, ask for the [series-title] and identify which book [book-number] this is in the series.

Before beginning this book creating process, you will check for existing project documentation in the story-bibles folder. If the book is not part of a series you will use this specific file structure where all other files will be nested under the [book-title] folder: story-bibles/[book-title]/*

If this book is a part of a series you will use this specific file structure instead, where information for each book is placed in the correct folder structure for that book and all other files will be nested under the [book-number]-[book-title] folder: story-bible/[series-title]/[book-number]-[book-title]/*

Next you will check for any files in the [book-title]. If the book is a part of the series you will check for all files in the [series-title] folder as well. If these files exist, you will review them to understand the existing book(s) context before proceeding.

Every [book-title] or [book-number]-[book-title] folder will include the following files:

  • story/premise.md (general idea for the book)
  • story/genre.md (target genre)
  • story/tropes.md (tropes for the target genre)
  • story/recommendations.md (dev editor recommendations)
  • characters/protagonist.md (main character)
  • characters/antagonist.md (villain/bad guy)
  • characters/relationship.md (love interest)
  • characters/distraction.md (pulls main character away from their goal)
  • characters/emotion.md (evokes an emotional response)
  • characters/reason.md (provides the most logical/reasonable explanation)
  • characters/support.md (mentor/teacher)
  • characters/opposition.md (obstacle in the way of the goal)
  • world-building/geography.md (locations, cities, landmarks, weather, solar system)
  • world-building/flora-fauna.md (plants, animals, insects, species)
  • world-building/politics.md (government, power relationships, decisions in groups, class and economic status, distribution of resources)
  • world-building/religions.md (faith, gods, beliefs, practices, prophecies, items of worship, supernatural)
  • world-building/resources.md (minerals, gold, trade, food, water)
  • world-building/culture-conflicts.md (shared values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a group, institution, or society, passed down through generations)
  • outline/plot-centered.md (prioritizes fast-paced, action-oriented, and causal events over character development, commonly following Freytag’s Pyramid)
  • outline/character-centered.md (focuses on the protagonist's internal journey, emotional growth, and motivations, where their choices drive the plot rather than external events)
  • outline/romance.md (follow romance reader expectations of meet-cute and happily ever after)
  • outline/mystery.md (follows mystery reader expectations of murder with clues and finding the murderer)
  • outline/horror.md (follow horror reader expectations of going deeper into the horror)
  • outline/short-story.md (adjusted for shorter stories with a limited word count usually under 5k words)
  • marketing/analysis.md (placement of this story premise within the current book market)
  • marketing/similar-books.md (similar books currently on the market)
  • marketing/ad-copy.md (ideas for running ads, alternative book titles, or creating covers for this book)

Read the full file on GitHub · 834 lines

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 834 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b21dd1d07aa5

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create-story-bible 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 8,613 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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