What is autonovel-export?

The final production step for a completed novel, turning chapter files into a PDF, an ePub ebook, and audiobook-ready transcript chunks. PDF creation uses LaTeX, a document typesetting system.

Use it after all chapters are drafted to create the novel's PDF and ePub, plus transcript pieces that can be sent to a separate text-to-speech service.

It gathers separate manuscript chapters into reader-ready files and identifies when a local PDF typesetting tool is unavailable. The ePub and transcript outputs can still be produced without it.

autonovel-export — Skill for Claude Code by DukeTwoCan

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 DukeTwoCan/autonovel-agent-skills --skill autonovel-export

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DukeTwoCan/autonovel-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,139 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00090	$0.02139
Opus 5	$0.00045	$0.01069
Sonnet 5	$0.00018	$0.00428
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00214

Measured 12d ago against content hash a325822c5d0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonovel-export 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (lib/build_epub.py, lib/build_tex.py, lib/chunk_audio.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.

skills/creative/autonovel-export/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonovel — Phase 4 (Export)

Typeset the completed novel and produce final deliverables.

When to use this skill

State.json shows "phase": "export" (set by consistency-pass when cycles exhausted)
User says "export the novel" / "build the PDF" / "make the ePub"

Prerequisites

!`cd "$AUTONOVEL_WORKSPACE/$NOVEL_SLUG" && ls chapters/*.md | wc -l && cat state.json | python -c "import json,sys; s=json.load(sys.stdin); print(s.get('phase'), s.get('chapters_drafted'))"`

Need: all chapters drafted, state.json phase is "export" (or user explicitly overriding).

For PDF: use a local xelatex/pdflatex installation or the repository's optional container toolchain. Check for a local engine:

!`which pdflatex || which xelatex || echo "no LaTeX engine found"`

If neither is found, look for compose.tools.yaml at the repository root and use the container command in Step 3. If neither native LaTeX nor Docker is available, skip PDF with a warning; ePub and transcript chunks still work.

Workflow

Step 0 — Unpaid foreshadow check

If story_state/facts.json does not exist, skip this step silently — the novel predates the story-state ledger (Module A) and has no foreshadow tracking. Otherwise run:

!`python3 ${HERMES_SKILL_DIR}/lib/story_state.py unpaid "$AUTONOVEL_WORKSPACE/$NOVEL_SLUG/story_state/facts.json"`

If any items print, list them to the user with their setup chapters before proceeding. Export continues regardless (a dangling thread may be intentional / sequel-bait) — this is a warning, not a gate.

Step 1 — Confirm title and author

Read state.json for novel_slug. Ask the user for the title (display title, may differ from slug) and author byline.

Step 2 — Content-notes front matter (if applicable)

Read profile from state.json and read the normalized selected packs from genre_context/resolved.json's selected_pack_ids. Let Intimacy be selected only when "intimacy" is in that list; do not re-resolve pack selection from display tags. A non-empty profile.content_tags still implies Intimacy because the resolver records "intimacy" in selected_pack_ids for that profile. If profile.rating is M or E, or Intimacy is selected, build a content-notes line:

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

12d ago First seen · 182 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A a325822c5d0c

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autonovel-export is a skill published in the GitHub repository DukeTwoCan/autonovel-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,139 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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