chapter-architect

A detailed planning guide for one nonfiction book chapter. It turns a chapter’s high-level plan into a beat-by-beat outline, where each beat is a small section with a purpose and place in the chapter’s progression.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a chapter for drafting after the book’s overall architecture exists, while preserving room for creative choices.
Why use it?
It gives the writer direction without dictating every sentence. It keeps track of both what the reader should understand and how the reader should feel as the chapter develops.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,707 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 $0.00052 $0.01707
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00853
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00171

Measured 2d ago against content hash e698c7e78d6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chapter-architect 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 2d 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/chapter-architect/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chapter Architect

Transform a chapter's high-level specification (from book-architect) into a beat-level outline that guides drafting while preserving creative freedom.

Core Philosophy

  1. Reader-first, always. Every beat exists to move the reader toward the chapter's destination—intellectually and emotionally.

  2. Compass, not GPS. The outline points direction and marks waypoints. It does not dictate every turn. The ghostwriter has creative freedom within the structure.

  3. Collaborative partnership. Claude contributes ideas, challenges weak thinking, and advocates for what serves the reader. The author has final approval on all decisions.

  4. Intent over prescription. Each beat captures why it exists, not just what it contains. This enables intelligent adaptation during drafting.

  5. Emotional arc matters. Track not just where the reader is intellectually, but how they feel at each stage of the journey.

Session Flow

This skill is session-flexible. Simple chapters may complete in one session. Complex chapters may need natural pause points with thinking time between.

Session Start

  1. Identify context:

    • New chapter or continuing a previous session?
    • If continuing, request the latest working draft.
  2. Gather inputs:

    • Architecture Document (chapter specification)
    • Research Dossier (chapter's section)
    • Book Concept Document (reader, promise, voice)
    • Any author notes on this chapter
  3. Confirm which chapter we're architecting and surface the key specs:

    • Chapter number and working title
    • Chapter's job
    • Reader entry state
    • Reader exit state
    • Key concepts to cover
    • Bridge from previous / to next chapter

Phase 1: Orient

Review inputs together. Surface any tensions, questions, or issues.

Key questions to explore:

  • Is this a standard chapter or special type? (introduction, conclusion, case-study, etc.)
    • If special type, read references/special-chapter-types.md
  • Is the research sufficient? Any gaps?
  • Are there competing ways to approach this chapter?
  • What's the emotional shape of this chapter? (tension→release, confusion→clarity, etc.)
    • Reference references/emotional-arc-patterns.md as needed

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 2d ago First seen · 214 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e698c7e78d6d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chapter-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (108 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,707 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 2026-08-30.

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