book-ideation

book-ideation is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 41 tokens per session (826 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A book-planning stage that develops possible concepts, checks competing books, and selects one final idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating book pitches, comparing at least five competing books, assessing ideas, and recording the chosen concept.
Why use it?
It helps identify reader value, gaps in existing coverage, differences from other books, and whether the project is practical.

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 creating book pitches, comparing at least five competing books, assessing ideas, and recording the chosen concept.

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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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 826 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 $0.00041 $0.00826
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash b3ec912d0f85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-ideation 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 2d 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-ideation/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 1: Ideation

Goal: one concept the author is excited about, that a real reader would pay for, that this author can write, and that no existing book already delivers. Everything downstream inherits this decision.

Read PRD.md, STYLE.md, sources/INDEX.md, and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/book-{genre}/SKILL.md.

1. Premise stress test

Before generating alternatives, interrogate what the author already has. Answer in writing:

  • Why this book? What does it do that the reader cannot get elsewhere in an afternoon of searching?
  • Why now? What changed in the world, the field, or the author's life that makes this timely? If nothing, that is fine, but say so.
  • Why this author? What access, experience, or angle do they have? (For fiction: what obsession or wound is underneath the premise?)
  • What is the reader's objection? The strongest reason a target reader would put it back on the shelf.
  • Where is the book most likely to fail? Middle sag, a premise that runs out at 30%, research the author does not have, a voice that will tire.

2. Comparable titles

Research 5-8 real books the target reader has read or would consider instead. Use web search when available; otherwise rely on known titles and mark each as verified or from memory. Never invent a title, author, or sales figure. For each comp: title, author, year, what it does well, what it leaves undone, how this book differs. Write the matrix into ideation.md.

For Korean-market books, include domestic comps (교보/예스24/알라딘 bestseller lists, 밀리의 서재 trends) and translated comps separately.

3. Concept generation

Generate 5-10 concepts. Concepts are angles on the premise, not random alternatives. Each:

  • Elevator pitch (two sentences, no adjectives doing the work)
  • Reader promise (what they have at the end)
  • The first chapter in one paragraph (this exposes weak concepts fast)
  • Differentiation against the comps
  • What the author would need to research or invent
  • Risk (one line)

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 2d ago Changed · +37 lines · +15 tokens per session b3ec912d0f85
  2. 8d ago First seen · 28 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A e5dada6840cd

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book-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (33 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 826 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.

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