prose-craft

prose-craft is a skill for Claude Code from queelius/claude-anvil. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of practical rules for writing and editing fiction prose, including dialogue, scene structure, sensory detail, and sentence rhythm.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting scenes, editing chapters, reviewing dialogue, or checking whether prose shows experiences rather than merely naming them.
Why use it?
It helps find and fix common problems such as vague description, flat pacing, repetitive sentence patterns, and characters who sound alike.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PostToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the worldsmith plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when drafting scenes, editing chapters, reviewing dialogue, or checking whether prose shows experiences rather than merely naming them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/queelius/claude-anvil/prose-craft
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 queelius/claude-anvil --skill prose-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/queelius/claude-anvil

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install worldsmith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,067 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 $0.00079 $0.02067
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00827
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00207

Measured yesterday against content hash 95b4f5e39d44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prose-craft 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 yesterday.

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.

worldsmith/skills/prose-craft/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fiction Prose Craft

Practical guardrails for writing fiction. Each rule is a thing that goes wrong in drafts, especially AI-assisted drafts, and how to fix it.

Prose Craft

Show, don't name the sensation. "Her hands were shaking" not "she felt afraid." The reader should infer the emotion from the physical detail. When you name the emotion directly, you shortcut the reader's experience of it. The physical detail makes them feel it; the label just tells them about it.

Before: She felt a surge of grief. After: She opened the cabinet and his coffee mug was still there, handle turned out the way he always left it.

Concrete and sensory. Name the object, the sound, the texture. "The fluorescent light buzzed" not "the room felt sterile." Abstraction is the default mode of lazy prose. Every time you reach for an adjective like "eerie" or "beautiful," ask what specific sensory detail would make the reader reach that conclusion on their own.

Vary sentence rhythm. Short sentences for impact, longer for texture. Three short sentences in a row creates urgency. A long sentence after them releases it. Read the paragraph aloud: if it drones, the rhythm is flat. This isn't a rule about sentence length. It's a rule about pacing.

The door opened. He stepped in. The room was empty. She'd taken everything: the books, the lamp, the framed photograph from their trip to the coast that he'd always assumed meant as much to her as it did to him.

No purple prose, no cliches. "Her eyes were pools of liquid sapphire" is not prose, it's decoration. Precision matters as much here as in technical writing: it's just applied to different material. If a phrase sounds like you've read it a hundred times before, you have, and so has the reader.

Cut adverbs that duplicate the verb. "She whispered quietly": the verb already did that work. "He sprinted quickly": what else would sprinting be? Adverbs earn their place only when they contradict or modify: "she whispered fiercely" does real work because it creates tension between the quietness of whispering and the intensity of the delivery.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. yesterday Changed · -8 lines 95b4f5e39d44
  2. 4d ago First seen · 176 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 1b7a30b9f0f2

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prose-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository queelius/claude-anvil (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,067 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-19.

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