kdp-listing

kdp-listing is a skill for Claude Code from queelius/claude-anvil. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that creates the four main parts of an Amazon KDP book listing: an HTML-formatted description, search keywords, BISAC book categories, and an author biography. It reads available book and author details and saves the results in the project configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or update a book's KDP description, keywords, categories, and author bio, including variants based on the manuscript context.
Why use it?
It provides one process for gathering book context and preparing all key listing information for Amazon.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the kdp plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft or update a book's KDP description, keywords, categories, and author bio, including variants based on the manuscript context.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add queelius/claude-anvil
Claude Code
/plugin install kdp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kdp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,290 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 $0.00060 $0.02290
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01145
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00229

Measured 9d ago against content hash f05d64e658b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kdp-listing 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 9d 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.

kdp/skills/kdp-listing/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KDP Listing Craft

Generate the four marketing artifacts for an Amazon KDP listing: blurb (book description), keywords, BISAC categories, and author bio. This skill gathers just enough context about the book to write effective marketing copy, then saves all artifacts to the user's project config.

Workflow

1. Load User Config

Read .claude/kdp.local.md if it exists (Read tool). Extract the kdp section and author metadata from YAML frontmatter. Key fields to look for:

  • kdp.blurb — existing blurb draft (if any)
  • kdp.keywords — existing keyword list
  • kdp.categories — existing BISAC categories
  • kdp.author_bio — existing bio
  • kdp.pen_name — pen name (if different from author.name)
  • kdp.series — series name and volume number
  • kdp.genre — declared genre
  • author.name — author's real name
  • author.bio — general bio text

If the config file is missing, offer to create one from the template at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/user-config-template.md.

2. Analyze the Manuscript

Gather enough context to write marketing copy. This skill does not read or analyze the full manuscript — it collects what it needs to sell the book.

Scan for existing context docs (Glob tool): Search for files that summarize the book's content and intent:

  • outline*, synopsis*, summary*, pitch*
  • worldbuild*, blurb*, logline*
  • README*, CONCEPT*, PREMISE*

Read found docs (Read tool): Read any matching files. These often contain the clearest distillation of what the book is about — more useful for marketing copy than the manuscript itself.

Read the opening (Read tool): Find and read the first chapter or opening section to understand tone, voice, and genre register. Look for the first chapter file, or the first 100 lines of the main manuscript file. The opening establishes the voice that the blurb should echo.

Ask the user to fill gaps: After reading available context, ask for anything still missing:

  • Describe the book in 2-3 sentences (the "elevator pitch")
  • Name the core conflict or central question
  • Identify 2-3 comparable titles ("readers who liked X will like this")
  • Describe the target reader (who picks this book up and why)

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 9d ago First seen · 197 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A f05d64e658b0

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kdp-listing is a skill published in the GitHub repository queelius/claude-anvil (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,290 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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