book-edit

book-edit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,609 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A five-stage process for improving a manuscript, from checking its overall structure to correcting final typos and formatting.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for editorial assessment, chapter restructuring, line editing, copy editing, proofreading, and tracking issues that need author approval.
Why use it?
It separates large structural problems from sentence-level and spelling problems, so important issues are reviewed in order.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the velith plugin — 17 skills, 8 agents 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/epicsagas/velith/book-edit
Any agent
npx skills add epicsagas/Velith --skill book-edit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicsagas/Velith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install velith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 8 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for book-edit

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/epicsagas/velith/book-edit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/epicsagas/velith/book-edit.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,609 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 $0.00053 $0.01609
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00161

Measured today against content hash fce9f30b0919, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-edit 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 today.

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/book-edit/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 4: Editing

Goal: a manuscript that passes a cold read by its target readers. Editing here means rewriting. Each stage snapshots the drafts, changes them, and files a report of what changed and why.

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/loom/quality-bar.md. Every stage reads the whole manuscript, STYLE.md (voice lock passages), bible.md, and the genre skill.

Refuse to run if any outlined chapter is missing. Editing an incomplete book fixes the wrong things.

Stages

# Stage Who Rewrites? Report
0 Fact check (nonfiction, technical, academic, and fiction with real-world claims) fact-checker Yes, removes or corrects unverifiable claims edits/00-fact-check.md
1 Editorial assessment skill (you) No edits/01-assessment.md
2 Developmental edit skill + chapter-writer for rewrites, continuity-editor after Yes, chapter-level edits/02-developmental.md
3 Line edit style-doctor then skill Yes, paragraph and sentence level edits/03-line-edit.md
4 Copy edit skill Yes, mechanical edits/04-copy-edit.md
5 Proofread skill Yes, final edits/05-proofread.md
6 Readiness beta-reader No edits/06-readiness-report.md (also edits/readiness-report.md)

Before every rewriting stage: node ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/velith.mjs snapshot [project-dir] stage{N}.

After each stage: update chapter frontmatter status: edited, bump revision, run scan.

Stage 0 — Fact check

Invoke fact-checker. It builds a claim ledger, verifies against sources/ and the web, and edits drafts to remove or correct what cannot be verified. It also reconciles every figure's labels and plotted values with the text and the data files in sources/. A claim that would embarrass the author in a review is a Critical. Fiction runs this stage only if the bible flags real-world claims (real places, real history, real science). Stage 0 runs before anything else because a developmental edit built on a false claim is wasted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. today Changed · +64 lines · +24 tokens per session fce9f30b0919
  2. 5d ago First seen · 32 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A ea6d6cee1985

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book-edit is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,609 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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