Claude-Book: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/book-analyzer/SKILL.md

book-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code from ThomasHoussin/Claude-Book. It costs 45 tokens per session (578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A book-analysis skill that turns a novel, story, or other narrative text into reusable writing-reference files. The files cover style, structure, characters, and the story's fictional world.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a source book and create a writing bible with details such as viewpoint, tense, sentence patterns, character traits, relationships, plot structure, and locations.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly reread a source book when matching its writing style or building new story material from it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is ThomasHoussin/Claude-Book's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Claude-Book itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Claude-Book configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ThomasHoussin/Claude-Book. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThomasHoussin/Claude-Book

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 578 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 $0.00045 $0.00578
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 8d ago against content hash 65e55bf40ff1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-analyzer 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/book-analyzer/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Book Analyzer

Extract structured bible files from source books for the writing framework.

Quick Start

# Analyze a single book
Analyze analysis/src/[book].txt

Output structure in analysis/output/[book-slug]/:

├── style.md
├── structure.md
├── characters/
│   └── [character].md
└── universe/
    └── [location].md

Workflow

1. Read source completely

Load the full text, note overall structure and length.

2. Extract style

  • Identify POV (first/third limited/omniscient)
  • Identify tenses (primary, secondary)
  • Sample 50 sentences for average length
  • List 20-30 characteristic vocabulary items
  • List dialogue tags used
  • Estimate dialogue-to-prose ratio
  • Note description techniques

3. Extract characters

For each significant character:

  • Identity (name, age, role)
  • Physical description
  • 3-5 core personality traits with evidence
  • 5-10 dialogue quotes showing voice
  • Relationships mapped

4. Extract structure

  • Map acts (setup/development/climax/resolution)
  • Note chapter count and length range
  • Analyze chapter openings and endings
  • Identify recurring patterns
  • Track mystery mechanics if applicable

5. Extract universe

For each significant location:

  • Physical description with quotes
  • Atmosphere and sensory details
  • Story function

6. Generate files

Create all output files following templates in bible/.

Evidence-Based Extraction

Every trait, pattern, or rule must be supported by:

  • Direct quotes (with chapter reference)
  • Quantitative data (averages, counts, percentages)

Bad: "Claude is stubborn" Good: "Claude is stubborn (Ch.2: refuses to answer to 'Claudine'; Ch.5: insists on leading despite danger)"

Output Format

Follow templates exactly:

  • bible/style.mdoutput/[book]/style.md
  • bible/characters/_template.mdoutput/[book]/characters/[name].md
  • bible/universe/_template.mdoutput/[book]/universe/[name].md
  • bible/structure.mdoutput/[book]/structure.md

For detailed extraction checklists, see references/extraction-guide.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 87 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 65e55bf40ff1

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book-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThomasHoussin/Claude-Book (112 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 578 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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