book-ideation

book-ideation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robertguss/claude-code-toolkit. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,727 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for turning a rough nonfiction book idea into a clear, structured concept. It defines the intended reader, main promise, thesis, and change the book should create.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a raw idea, brainstorm notes, research collection, or partial concept into a nonfiction book concept rather than a chapter outline.
Why use it?
It helps determine what the book is really about and whether the idea is clear enough to validate, research, and develop further.

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/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/book-ideation
Any agent
npx skills add robertguss/claude-code-toolkit --skill book-ideation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,727 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00092 $0.01727
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00173

Measured 4d ago against content hash ec4fbfdea0d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-ideation 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 4d 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.

skills/non-fiction-book-factory/book-ideation/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Book Ideation

Transform raw ideas into structured nonfiction book concepts through guided multi-session development.

Core Philosophy

Every decision serves the reader. The question is never "what do I want to say?" but "what transformation does the reader need, and how can this book deliver it?"

This skill sits between generic brainstorming and book architecture. Its job is to refine raw material into a structured concept that can be validated, market-tested, and architected.

The goal is not a book outline. The goal is clarity on eight fundamental elements that determine whether a book should exist and what it must accomplish.

Input Types

This skill accepts:

  • Raw idea (one sentence or paragraph)
  • Brainstorm document from the brainstorm skill
  • Zettelkasten notes or research collection
  • Existing partial concept needing refinement
  • "Shower thought" worth exploring

Session Flow

Session Start

Begin every session with:

  1. New or continuing?

    • If continuing: Request the latest Book Concept Document version
    • If new: Proceed to initialization
  2. What do we have?

    • Ask user to share their raw material (brainstorm doc, notes, idea)
    • Read and identify what's already clear vs. underdeveloped
  3. Session goal

    • Which elements need development today?
    • Deep exploration or quick progress?

The Eight Elements

Develop these through conversation, not interrogation. Surface insights; don't extract data.

1. The Reader

Who specifically is this for?

Go beyond demographics. Understand:

  • Their current situation (what's happening in their life/work)
  • What they currently believe that isn't serving them
  • What they've already tried that hasn't worked
  • What's blocking them from solving this themselves
  • Why they would pick up THIS book (the trigger moment)

Probe: "If your ideal reader walked into a bookstore, what section would they be in? What would they be feeling? What search would they have just done on Amazon?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 248 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A ec4fbfdea0d0

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book-ideation is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (108 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,727 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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