writer-characters

writer-characters is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge. It costs 29 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fictional-character development workflow for shaping motivations, relationships, story arcs, and distinct dialogue voices while keeping improvisation separate from the official story.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define desires and fears, develop relationship tensions, test choices in short exchanges, and plan changes through pressure and consequences.
Why use it?
It helps prevent characters from acting inconsistently or knowing information they have not learned, without accidentally adding exploratory ideas to the manuscript.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define desires and fears, develop relationship tensions, test choices in short exchanges, and plan changes through pressure and consequences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge/writer-characters
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge --skill writer-characters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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 $0.00029 $0.00389
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 28d ago against content hash 6bd8cc9019ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writer-characters 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 28d 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.

pi-package-writer/skills/writer-characters/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Characters and dialogue

When to use

Use for cast design, unclear motivation, relationship progression, dialogue differentiation, or testing a character's response to pressure.

Inputs and assumptions

Read existing appearances and knowledge state. Ask what role this character serves and which facts are fixed.

Portable workflow

  1. Define a concrete desire, a feared cost, a self-protective habit, and a contradiction that can produce choices.
  2. Give relationships different tensions. A character may be generous with a sibling and guarded with a teacher without being inconsistent.
  3. Establish what the character knows at this point. Do not grant access to narrator-only or future information.
  4. Design voice through register, rhythm, evasions, favored subjects, and subtext. Avoid catchphrases as the sole identifier.
  5. Test the character in a short exchange or difficult choice. Label in-character improvisation as exploration, not a manuscript event.
  6. Propose an arc as pressure, choice, and consequence rather than a list of personality adjectives.
  7. Save approved facts and proposed changes separately using the project workflow.

Safety and side effects

Preserve established identities and motives unless the author approves a retcon. Do not turn a simulated interview into canon automatically.

Scripts, references, and dependencies

No external dependencies. Style choices can help separate narrative voice from dialogue voice.

Verification

Check whether two speakers remain distinguishable without dialogue tags, whether decisions follow from their current incentives, and whether each knows only what the story permits.

Pi adapter

Use /writer characters --brief "Give the rival a credible reason to help, without making him secretly benevolent".

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. 28d ago First seen · 42 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6bd8cc9019ab

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writer-characters is a skill published in the GitHub repository Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge (91 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-19.

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