book-nonfiction

book-nonfiction is a skill for Claude Code from epicsagas/Velith. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,515 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of writing patterns for nonfiction books. It explains how to structure chapters, arguments, evidence, examples, and exercises for readers at different skill levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan problem-and-solution chapters, describe learner personas, rank research and other evidence, build arguments, add limited callouts, and set a difficulty progression.
Why use it?
It helps keep instructional writing ordered and supported by appropriate evidence. It also makes the material progress from introductory ideas to advanced practice.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use it to plan problem-and-solution chapters, describe learner personas, rank research and other evidence, build arguments, add limited callouts, and set a difficulty progression.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/epicsagas/velith/book-nonfiction
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 epicsagas/Velith --skill book-nonfiction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicsagas/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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,515 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.01515
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00152

Measured 7d ago against content hash dbc8be01274c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-nonfiction 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 7d 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-nonfiction/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.

Nonfiction

The reader of nonfiction wants one of three things: to understand something they did not, to be able to do something they could not, or to have lived through something they never will. Decide which this book delivers (or which mix) in PRD.md, and let that decide the structure. A how-to book with the structure of a memoir fails both.

Structure options

  • Problem → Principles → Practice → Advanced — the default for practical nonfiction. Reader arrives with a pain, leaves with a method.
  • Narrative spine with argument chapters — a story runs through the book (a case, a person, a year) and argument chapters hang off it. Best for big-idea books.
  • Question-driven — each chapter is a question the previous chapter raised. Best for explanatory nonfiction.
  • Chronological — history, memoir, biography. Risk: "and then" pacing; fix by organizing around turning points, not dates.
  • Thematic essays — a collection unified by voice and subject. Each essay stands alone; the order builds.
  • Framework — one model, one chapter per component. Risk: framework inflation; only if the framework is genuinely the book's contribution.

Whatever the shape: the introduction earns the reader's next hour by naming the pain and the promise; chapter 1 delivers something usable; the middle escalates from simple to hard, not from topic to topic; the ending returns to the promise and shows it kept.

Argument

Every chapter has one claim the reader could disagree with. If they cannot disagree, it is not a claim, it is a topic.

  • Claim → evidence → warrant → objection → answer. The objection is the strongest one a smart skeptic would raise, not a straw one.
  • Confidence signaling. Mark what is settled, what is contested, and what is the author's speculation. Uniform confidence is a tell and a liability.
  • One recurring example carried across chapters beats a new example every paragraph. The reader builds a mental model of it.
  • Abstraction ladder. Every abstract paragraph is followed by a concrete one. Never two abstractions in a row.
  • Cut the preview and the recap. Chapter titles and transitions do that work.

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. 7d ago Changed · +70 lines · +24 tokens per session dbc8be01274c
  2. 12d ago First seen · 19 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2e0f1e15337e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

book-nonfiction is a skill published in the GitHub repository epicsagas/Velith (35 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,515 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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