book-genre-creator

book-genre-creator is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,264 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for choosing a book-writing approach or defining a new one when a project does not fit an existing category.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for selecting patterns for fiction, non-fiction, technical books, screenplays, poetry, games, academic work, or custom formats.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear book idea into a suitable writing method instead of forcing it into the wrong structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the velith plugin — 18 skills, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for selecting patterns for fiction, non-fiction, technical books, screenplays, poetry, games, academic work, or custom formats.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add epicsagas/Velith
Claude Code
/plugin install velith

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install velith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 12 agents.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,264 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 $0.00045 $0.01264
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4a8936e5254b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-genre-creator 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/book-genre-creator/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Genre Creator

Use when the project does not fit a built-in genre cleanly, or when the author is unsure which genre applies. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/loom/quality-bar.md and the candidate genre skills.

Built-in genres

Genre Skill Core shape Best for
fiction book-fiction Three-act / 15-beat / bespoke; scene craft; character depth Novels, novellas, short stories, web novels
non-fiction book-nonfiction Problem → principles → practice; evidence discipline Business, self-help, essays, memoir, narrative nonfiction
technical book-technical Concept gradient + running project; failure-first Programming, engineering, data science
screenplay book-screenplay Three-act + eight sequences; subtext Film, TV, web series
poetry book-poetry Form, line, collection arc Collections, chapbooks
game book-game Branching, quests, lore bible Game scenarios, visual novels, interactive fiction
academic book-academic IMRAD / discipline structures; citation integrity Theses, dissertations, monographs

Selection

Three questions, then route:

  1. What is the reader doing with it? (living a story / learning to understand / learning to do / watching / playing / reading aloud / examining)
  2. What does the author fear most going wrong? (boring middle / being wrong / being unclear / being obvious / being inconsistent)
  3. What does "done" look like? (a bound book / a script / a build / a submission)

Hybrids are common: a memoir with a practical framework (nonfiction, narrative spine); a technical book with a fictional running story (technical, with fiction scene craft for the story sections); an illustrated poetry-essay (poetry + nonfiction). Most hybrids are a primary genre with a borrowed section from another; write that into genre-custom.md rather than inventing a new genre.

Custom genre spec

Write genre-custom.md in the project root. Agents read it in place of a built-in genre skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 Changed · -23 lines · +10 tokens per session 4a8936e5254b
  2. 11d ago First seen · 112 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 1ec23bbc64d8

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book-genre-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (35 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,264 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.