book-init

book-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 32 tokens per session (332 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup guide for starting a new book project. It asks about the book and creates planning files for its content, style, sources, and workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose the book’s genre, audience, language, size, timeline, and voice. It helps create a project requirements document, a style guide, source folders, and draft folders.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear idea into a defined project before drafting begins. It also records the intended readers, scope, schedule, and writing rules in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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-init
Any agent
npx skills add epicsagas/Velith --skill book-init
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

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 332 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 $0.00032 $0.00332
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 4d ago against content hash b47f018a0b31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-init 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 4d 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-init/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Phase 0: Onboarding

Max 3 questions per round, max 3 rounds.

R1 — Genre (fiction/non-fiction/technical) · Audience (1-2 personas) · Language R2 — Scale (5-15 chapters, word count) · Timeline · Existing materials R3 — Voice (conversational/academic/narrative) · Tone · Special requirements

Source scan if materials confirmed: find vault + alcove search_project_docs/search_vault in parallel.

Outputs:

  • PRD.md — genre, language, reader, scale, timeline, source map, success criteria
  • STYLE.md — voice/tone, language rules, formatting, prohibited patterns
  • drafts/ edits/ publish/ sources/ directories

Gate: PRD.md + STYLE.md exist, source map has 3+ items.

Poetry note: For poetry/poetry-essay genres, STYLE.md line targets per poem should be 20-80 lines (not the default 10-30). Word/character targets in PRD.md should reflect total poem count × average length rather than a flat word count.

Post-Completion

Update the project dashboard status:

node {PLUGIN_ROOT}/velith.mjs scan [project-dir] --plugin-root={PLUGIN_ROOT}
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. 4d ago First seen · 33 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A b47f018a0b31

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book-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 332 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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