writing-staffing

writing-staffing is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (821 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for choosing and coordinating writing roles such as writers, critics, and knowledge agents, along with the supporting guidance each role needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to staff fiction workflows, choose between parallel review lanes and independent opinions, and provide each contributor with the right context and references.
Why use it?
It helps divide writing work clearly while preserving a consistent voice, continuity, and review focus.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the cw plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to staff fiction workflows, choose between parallel review lanes and independent opinions, and provide each contributor with the right context and references.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 821 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 29 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 29 May 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 $0.00044 $0.00821
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3fbc7f4add1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-staffing 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.

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.

cw/skills/writing-staffing/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Staffing

Each subagent has its own skill set. This skill teaches what extra skills to load and reference when dispatching work.

Fan-out gives the same question and files to different model families for independent judgment. Reserve it for high-stakes calls where model diversity can reveal different blind spots. Parallel lanes use different prompts or focus areas; use them when the work divides cleanly.

Dispatch Reference

@writer

Extra skills: /character-sim for voice fidelity, /shared-dao for project vocabulary.

Reference: name the production mode from /creative-writing-modesresources/prose-modes.md (fresh draft, revision, bridge, alternate take, line polish). Point to /creative-writing-craftresources/prose-writing.md or resources/scene-construction.md when relevant. Include style files, character state, and continuity anchors.

One writer per scene — voice consistency degrades when multiple writers handle adjacent content.

@critic

Extra skills: /creative-writing-craft for prose/voice focus, /shared-dao for vocabulary checks.

Assign a focus area: structure, character, voice, prose, or continuity. Include style files for voice critique.

Run different focus areas as parallel lanes. Scale to stakes: 1–2 for low-stakes, 3 for standard chapters, 4–5 for pivotal scenes with duplicated coverage on the critical dimension.

For a pivotal scene or disputed judgment, fan out the same critical dimension once across two strong model families, then synthesize the disagreement.

@editor

Name the edit level: editorial review, developmental, line edit, copyedit, proofreading. Point to /story-reviewresources/editorial-review.md for holistic pass, or the specific edit-level resource.

Use when the draft needs a priority order across concerns. For depth on one dimension, use @critic.

@continuity-checker

Include the draft plus canon, timeline, character state, and vocab files. More expensive than a critic with continuity focus — reads broadly. Use the critic for routine checks, the continuity-checker for deep validation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 3fbc7f4add1a

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writing-staffing is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (457 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 821 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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