storybuilder-prohibited-words

storybuilder-prohibited-words is a skill for Claude Code from design1online/author-it. It costs 0 tokens per session (486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that creates a master list of words to avoid in strong fiction prose, with a reason for excluding each word. It focuses especially on vague or “telling” words that state a character’s reaction instead of showing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build or expand a fiction-prose wordlist and explain why particular words should be flagged during writing or editing.
Why use it?
It gives writers a consistent checklist for spotting imprecise wording and replacing it with more concrete description.

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 build or expand a fiction-prose wordlist and explain why particular words should be flagged during writing or editing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/design1online/author-it/storybuilder-prohibited-words
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 design1online/author-it --skill storybuilder-prohibited-words
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 486 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 $0.00000 $0.00486
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00243
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00049

Measured 11d ago against content hash de729f884535, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

storybuilder-prohibited-words 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.

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/storybuilder-prohibited-words/SKILL.md · 122 lines

What it actually says

Create a Wordlist The purpose of this skill is to create a master list of words that should NOT be used when writing strong fiction prose. Your job is to create a list of words we should not include when we're writing along with an explanation of why that word shouldn't be used in the format [word] - [reason-not-to-use-it]. For example:

nice - this word is vague and doesn't communicate what is providing a positive response to what is being described. It doesn't include a concrete description either.

gross - this is a telling word, we should show why this object/item/etc is disgusting rather than telling the reader how to feel about it.

Telling words Include words commonly used to "tell" rather than "show", including feeling words like love or hate, and sense words like taste or smell.

Curated list Here is a curated list of words to ALWAYS flag in your final output. nice good pretty beautiful ugly handsome disgusting gross think ponder wonder realize know understand reflect consider muse deliberate contemplate ask himself ask herself ask myself look looked feels looks feel looking feeling realized felt realizing thinks thinking wonders wondered realizes wondering that just literally something anything someone somebody anyone utilize methodology commence expedite endeavor synergize really very he watched she noticed he saw she saw she watched he noticed he notices she notices he watches she watches suddenly then basically finally and also next after that subsequently truly highly precisely totally actually usually definitely a bit sort of kind of in a sense generally probably organic low key sat down stood up faded away gathered together back home spread out as is start to starts to started to starting to starts start starting started somewhat slightly somehow some how seem seems definitely

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 · 122 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A de729f884535

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storybuilder-prohibited-words 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 486 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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