creative-writing

creative-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 19 tokens per session (3,214 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing fiction, including story structure, characters, dialogue, world-building, and project organization. It also describes files for outlines, timelines, research, and chapters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan books, develop characters and settings, organize chapters, and review or expand a narrative.
Why use it?
It gives a writing project a repeatable structure so story details and drafts are easier to plan and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan books, develop characters and settings, organize chapters, and review or expand a narrative.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/creative-writing
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 fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill creative-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,214 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 $0.00019 $0.03214
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01607
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00321

Measured 6d ago against content hash e02173779bd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-writing 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 6d 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.

plugins/devops-process/creative-writing/skills/creative-writing/SKILL.md · 464 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 464 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creative Writing Skill

Patterns for fiction, narrative structure, character development, dialogue, and storytelling craft.


Book Project Scaffolding

Recommended Folder Structure

book-project/
├── .github/
│   ├── copilot-instructions.md    # Book-specific Alex context
│   └── prompts/
│       └── chapter-review.prompt.md
├── outline/
│   ├── BOOK-PLAN.md               # Synopsis, themes, timeline
│   ├── PLOT-OUTLINE.md            # Beat sheet or chapter summaries
│   └── TIMELINE.md                # Story timeline (if complex)
├── characters/
│   ├── CHARACTER-BIBLE.md         # All characters in one file
│   └── [character-name].md        # Deep dives for major characters
├── worldbuilding/                  # For fantasy/sci-fi/historical
│   ├── WORLD-BIBLE.md             # Rules, history, geography
│   ├── magic-system.md            # If applicable
│   └── locations/                 # Location details
├── research/                       # For historical, technical, etc.
│   ├── RESEARCH-LOG.md            # What you've researched
│   └── notes/                     # Source notes
├── chapters/
│   ├── act-1/
│   │   ├── ch01-[slug].md
│   │   └── ch02-[slug].md
│   ├── act-2/
│   └── act-3/
├── drafts/
│   ├── draft-1/                   # Complete manuscript versions
│   └── draft-2/
├── scenes/                         # Loose scenes not yet placed
└── README.md                       # Project overview

BOOK-PLAN.md Template

# Book Plan: [Title]

## Logline
[One sentence that captures the core conflict]

## Synopsis
[2-3 paragraph summary]

## Genre & Comparables
- **Genre**: [Primary genre + subgenre]
- **Comp Titles**: [Book] meets [Book]
- **Target Audience**: [Who is this for]

## Themes
1. [Primary theme — what is this book ABOUT thematically?]
2. [Secondary theme]

## Structure
- **Format**: [Novel / Novella / Short Story Collection]
- **POV**: [First / Third Limited / Multiple]
- **Tense**: [Past / Present]
- **Target Word Count**: [XX,000]

## Timeline
| Phase | Duration | Deliverable |
|-------|----------|-------------|
| Outline | Weeks 1-2 | PLOT-OUTLINE.md complete |
| Draft 1 | Weeks 3-10 | Rough draft in drafts/draft-1/ |
| Revision | Weeks 11-14 | Draft 2 |
| Beta | Weeks 15-18 | Beta feedback incorporated |
| Polish | Weeks 19-20 | Submission-ready |

## Success Criteria
- [ ] First draft complete
- [ ] [Other goals]

Read the full file on GitHub · 464 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. 6d ago First seen · 464 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e02173779bd8

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creative-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 3,214 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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