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kdp-publish

kdp-publish is a skill for Claude Code from queelius/claude-anvil. It costs 60 tokens per session (4,662 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for publishing an ebook or paperback through Amazon KDP, Amazon’s self-publishing service. It covers checking the manuscript, preparing the listing and files, and submitting the book.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a book, prepare its description and metadata, verify files and cover requirements, set pricing, and work through the KDP dashboard submission.
Why use it?
It breaks publishing into ordered phases and prevents submission before the manuscript and listing materials have been checked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: positional $N argument.

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

not rated 2repo 2mo ago A scan 60 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to audit a book, prepare its description and metadata, verify files and cover requirements, set pricing, and work through the KDP dashboard submission.

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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 4,662 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 $0.04662
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02331
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00932
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00466

Measured 10d ago against content hash a3e10d2723fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kdp-publish 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.

kdp/skills/kdp-publish/SKILL.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KDP Book Publishing Workflow

Orchestrate the full workflow for publishing a book through Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing): audit the manuscript, craft the listing, prepare files, and submit. This skill coordinates /kdp-audit and /kdp-listing into a phased pipeline, then walks through the mechanical submission steps on the KDP dashboard.

Strategy

The recommended publication sequence:

  1. Audit -- Verify the manuscript meets KDP formatting and content requirements
  2. Listing -- Craft blurb, keywords, categories, and author bio (the marketing artifacts that determine discoverability)
  3. Prepare -- Convert manuscript to final format, verify cover specs
  4. Submit -- Walk through the KDP dashboard, upload files, set pricing, publish

Each phase gates the next. Do not submit a manuscript that fails audit. Do not fill in listing fields without the artifacts from /kdp-listing. Present the phase map, confirm the plan, and proceed one phase at a time.

Workflow

Phase 1: Assess Current State

Determine where the book stands in the pipeline to skip completed phases.

Load user config (Read tool): Read .claude/kdp.local.md if it exists. Extract the kdp section and author metadata from YAML frontmatter. If the file is missing, offer to create one from the template at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/user-config-template.md.

Detect manuscript files (Glob tool): Search for manuscript files in the project:

  • .tex files (LaTeX -- technical books)
  • .docx files (Word -- fiction/nonfiction)
  • .epub files (eBook source)
  • .md files (Markdown manuscripts)
  • .pdf files (final output)
  • .kpf files (Kindle Create project)

Classify the manuscript type: Technical (LaTeX, math, code), Fiction (chapters, dialog), or General nonfiction.

Check what already exists (Glob/Read tools):

  • Cover files? (cover*.jpg, cover*.pdf, paperback-cover.*, full-cover.*)
  • Audit already done? (Look for recent audit report in conversation history or notes)
  • Listing artifacts in config? (kdp.blurb, kdp.keywords, kdp.categories populated?)
  • Manuscript in final format? (compiled PDF, validated EPUB)

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 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. 10d ago First seen · 298 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A a3e10d2723fc

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kdp-publish 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 4,662 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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