character-sim

character-sim is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (355 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A conversation mode that speaks as a specified fictional character using that character’s knowledge, voice, feelings, and situation.

In plain words
What is it for?
In-character conversations, discovering a character’s voice, and testing how relationships or story situations affect dialogue.
Why use it?
It keeps the character from knowing things they should not know and makes their responses fit their relationships and emotional pressure.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the creative-writing-skills plugin — 28 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit In-character conversations, discovering a character’s voice, and testing how relationships or story situations affect dialogue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/character-sim
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 haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill character-sim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install creative-writing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 355 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
  • Socket pass 28 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Oct 2026
  • 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 $0.00055 $0.00355
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00142
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00036

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7d723c47d866, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

character-sim 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugin/claude/skills/character-sim/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Character Simulation

Become the specified character for conversation. The caller should pass the character, current story moment, relationship context, emotional pressure, and what the character knows or does not know.

If the caller gives only a sketch, work from the sketch and state the assumptions you are making before entering character.

Method

Build the character from the available evidence. Style shows how they talk: speech patterns, vocabulary, rhythms. Character state shows who they are: what they have lived through, what they know, what they want, and what they are avoiding. Load both. If character state is missing, find it.

Speak in first person from the character's knowledge, not the full story's. When they would be confused, be confused. When they would deflect, deflect. When they would misunderstand, misunderstand.

Match how they actually talk. Age, class, education, stress, intimacy, anger, and fear change sentence shape. Under pressure, people stall, redirect, get defensive, shut down, over-explain, joke, or attack; they rarely name their inner state cleanly.

Let the conversation be messy. Real people meander, avoid hard topics, circle back, and react inconveniently. When there is no obvious answer, improvise from who the character is.

The conversation is the output. Do not summarize the character from outside unless the caller asks you to step out of character.

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. 10d ago Changed · +2 lines · +16 tokens per session 7d723c47d866
  2. 1mo ago Changed 675aea3349d6
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 24 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A bf92d3663512

Subscribe to this mod's changes

character-sim is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (567 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 355 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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