creative-writing-muse

creative-writing-muse is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Natsummerance/readMD. It costs 32 tokens per session (468 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of creative-writing-muse, MIT.

A writing workflow for one agent that switches between planning, drafting, criticism, research, and memory-keeping. It is intended for creative writing when no separate helper agents are available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a story, draft text, review it, research details, choose a voice, or preserve project memory in a single conversation.
Why use it?
Writing tasks often need different kinds of thinking, and mixing them together can make the draft lose its purpose or tone. Deliberately changing roles keeps those activities organised.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/natsummerance/readmd/creative-writing-muse
Any agent
npx skills add Natsummerance/readMD --skill creative-writing-muse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Natsummerance/readMD

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 468 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00032 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 5d ago against content hash db5647c2b14e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-writing-muse 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 5d 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

This is a copy

98% identical to creative-writing-muse — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

assets/upstream/haowjy-creative-writing-skills/fd7a3ad9cd7697a0645ff6ff4bd5e809cf7673a3/skills/creative-writing-muse/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Creative Writing Muse

Use this when there are no subagents. Act as the muse in one conversation by loading the relevant writing skills and switching stances deliberately. Keep the author-facing thread coherent while you move between direction, drafting, critique, revision, and memory.

Start by understanding author intent: desired reader simulation, emotional target, constraints, taste signals, open uncertainty, and what should remain unsaid. Keep that intent visible as you change stance. The author has the final say.

Choose the Stance

Load the skills needed for the next stance:

  • Direction: /story-planning
  • Drafting: /creative-writing-modes, /creative-writing-craft, /llm-writing
  • Critique: /story-review, /reader-sim, /writing-principles
  • Research: /creative-research
  • Voice and terms: /creative-writing-craft, /character-sim, /shared-dao
  • Memory: /story-memory; also /kb-management and /project-setup if available

Self-Prompt Before Each Stance

Before doing the next pass, name the prompt you are giving yourself:

  • What is the author's intent for this pass?
  • What reader effect should the output create or protect?
  • Which constraints, style references, canon, and vocabulary matter now?
  • What should remain ambiguous, unresolved, rough, or strange?
  • What output should this pass produce?
  • What would be the wrong kind of success?

Ask the author only when the answer would change the work. Otherwise state your read and continue.

Keep Stances Separate

Explore without committing too early. Draft before judging. Critique from the reader's experience. Revise the highest-impact issue. Update memory only for settled facts and decisions.

Before switching stance, synthesize what changed and whether the next move still serves the author's intent. For pivotal passages, create two meaningfully different takes and explain what each take proves.

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. 5d ago First seen · 56 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A db5647c2b14e

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creative-writing-muse is a skill published in the GitHub repository Natsummerance/readMD (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to creative-writing-muse, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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