novel-outline

novel-outline is a skill for Claude Code from eternityspring/shuohao-skills. It costs 197 tokens per session (2,697 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Chinese-language tool for turning a novel into a short-drama outline package. It produces adaptation notes, character and appeal-point tables, episode summaries, and an asset list, with scripted checks for quality rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan short dramas from novels or inspect an existing outline for rule violations. It does not write dialogue, storyboards, images, or text-to-speech prompts.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to break a long story into episodes while checking limits such as character counts, main locations, episode hooks, and spacing between major payoffs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to plan short dramas from novels or inspect an existing outline for rule violations. It does not write dialogue, storyboards, images, or text-to-speech prompts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eternityspring/shuohao-skills/novel-outline
About the project

shuohao-skills is a collection of agent skills for turning a novel into production materials for an AI short-drama pipeline, including character profiles, outlines, art references, scripts, and storyboards. It is for creators using Claude Code or Codex to plan and prepare AI-generated short videos. The catalogue add-ons implement the separate stages of this workflow and can also assemble their reports.

eternityspring/shuohao-skills · 3,181 stars · on GitHub · reelbench.79px.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add eternityspring/shuohao-skills --skill novel-outline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eternityspring/shuohao-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 197 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,697 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 $0.00197 $0.02697
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.01349
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00270

Measured 12d ago against content hash e611c46f5451, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-outline 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/novel-outline.mjs, scripts/selftest.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/novel-outline/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

novel-outline

输入一本小说 + 目标参数,输出短剧改编大纲五件套。四件模型写、一件脚本算(资产清单从分集数据自动汇总)。

{baseDir} = 本文件所在目录。脚本 {baseDir}/scripts/novel-outline.mjs,零依赖,node 直接跑。

边界(不做的事):不写剧本台词、不做分镜、不出图像/TTS 提示词。梗概是叙述体,出现引号对白就是越界——validate 会拦。想从小说拆角色设定(画像/形象提示词/设定图),那是 novel-characters 的活。


Step 0 — 收参数 ⛔ 缺了不开工

一次问完,别轮流盘问。两件必问 + 两件给默认值待确认:

参数 处理
总集数 × 单集时长 必问,没有合理默认
题材 必问,决定爽点类型,猜错整份废
改编幅度 默认抽核(忠实 / 抽核 / 借壳),告知即可
已有偏好 默认无(想保哪个角色、哪场戏)

平台阈值不同可以带上 params.thresholds 覆盖(默认:主角组 ≤ 5、重要配角 ≤ 10、功能性角色 ≤ 10、爽点间隔 ≤ 3 集)。主场景上限不用配,随集数自动算:4 + ⌈集数/10⌉,夹在 5–15(60 集 → 10)。这是 AI 短剧的数——场景是生成的没有搭景钱,放宽换观赏性;显式给 maxPrimaryScenes 才覆盖。短篇(20–30 集)建议收紧角色档的阈值,默认值是按 60 集以上给的。

人物表从原文拆——大纲是角色设定的上游,characters 块定下的分档、人物线与来源,下游 novel-characters 直接拿去当角色清单,不用再判断一遍谁重要。

例外是用户手上已经有 cast.json(此前单独跑过 novel-characters):那就拿来当人物原料,角色、别名、关系都是现成的,不用重拆原文。分档按 importance 反向映射:protagonist/major → lead,supporting → support,minor → functional

Step 1 — 定位输入

材料优先级,写死:

  1. 用户点名的精读章节
  2. 章节目录 + 简介
  3. 全文分卷摘要(Step 2)

禁止凭书名脑补内容——一切判断基于给到的文本。落地手段:adaptation.keep 的关键取舍要附 evidence(原文逐字片段)。

直接粘正文的先落成 .txt。输出目录:用户指定就用,没指定用原书同级目录。

Step 2 — 分卷摘要(长文本才需要)

这一步是脚手架,不是交付物——分卷摘要是给没读过原文的模型压缩用的。两种情况直接跳到 Step 3:

  • 短篇,单卷装得下
  • 当前会话已经通读过原文——不用再压缩一遍,也不用事后补档

长篇且没读过原文:

node {baseDir}/scripts/novel-outline.mjs chunk <book.txt> <workdir>

按章节标题分卷(默认每卷 15 章,--per-volume 可调),识别不出章节就按字数切。打印 {"volumes": N, ...}truncated: true 就明确告诉用户尾部没扫到,别闷着。

每卷一个子代理(支持并发就同一条消息里全部发出):读 {baseDir}/references/volume-pass.md,读 <workdir>/vol-NN.txt,把卷摘要写到 <workdir>/summary-NN.json,只回一句「done NN」。

Step 3 — 快版骨架 → 用户拍板 ⛔

{baseDir}/references/outline-pass.md{baseDir}/references/schema.md,照着做。产出骨架四块(adaptation / characters / scenes / beats),写成 <workdir>/outline.json

node {baseDir}/scripts/novel-outline.mjs validate <workdir>/outline.json --stage beats

过了 beats 档,把三件事摆给用户拍板:砍了哪条线、合了哪些人、大爆点落在第几集。不点头不进 Step 4——快版错了只损失一轮骨架,分集写完才发现方向错,全废。

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 12d ago First seen · 179 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A e611c46f5451

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novel-outline is a skill published in the GitHub repository eternityspring/shuohao-skills (3,181 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 2,697 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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