novel-taste

novel-taste is a skill for Claude Code from TulanCN/vibe-noveling. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing-style preference assessment based on comparing short sample passages. It helps identify which combinations of pacing, imagery, emotion, language, information density, and narrative viewpoint suit the writer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a novel, checking whether its current prose matches your preferences, or creating a writing-style baseline for future chapters.
Why use it?
It replaces vague questions about writing taste with concrete choices between examples. This makes it easier to define a consistent style for a project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the vibe-noveling plugin — 16 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a novel, checking whether its current prose matches your preferences, or creating a writing-style baseline for future chapters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tulancn/vibe-noveling/novel-taste
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 TulanCN/vibe-noveling --skill novel-taste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TulanCN/vibe-noveling

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibe-noveling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 4 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,464 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 $0.00051 $0.01464
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00146

Measured 11d ago against content hash f8c1d3f9e51e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-taste 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 11d 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.

plugins/vibe-noveling/skills/novel-taste/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

文风偏好测评

对比样例法绕过抽象描述触达真实偏好——配眼镜换镜片式比较,不问「你喜欢什么风格」。

触发条件

  • 用户要测评/确认文风、不确定自己喜欢什么
  • novel-init 中自动调用,或用户手动 /novel-taste

前置读取

  • CLAUDE.md:已有偏好和目标读者(频道定位和阅读经验影响样例题材)
  • 最近 2-3 章 正文.md(如存在):对比当前实际文风和偏好是否偏离

测评方法论

核心原则

  1. 不问抽象问题:不问「你喜欢快节奏还是慢节奏」,只给对比样例
  2. 控制变量:每个维度的对比样例用同一个场景、同一组人物,只改变目标维度
  3. 从两端往中间收:先给极端对比,确定用户落在哪一端,再在该端内精细对比
  4. 允许「都不喜欢」:如果用户两端都不选,说明该维度对他不重要,跳过

测评流程

分两个阶段。第一阶段粗筛,覆盖全部维度,每个维度给一组极端对比快速定位偏好方向。第二阶段精调,根据第一阶段结果,在用户偏好的方向上进一步精细化。

任何时候用户说「差不多」「都可以」,就跳过该维度——说明这不是他真正的敏感点。


第一阶段:粗筛

逐维度进行。每轮:

  1. 用当前小说的题材和背景,即兴写两段极短文(每段 100-150 字),同一场景,不同风格
  2. 样例题材匹配目标读者的频道定位(男频→战斗/升级场景,女频→关系/情感场景)
  3. AskUserQuestion 展示,让用户选 A / B / 差不多,记录偏好

如果小说背景未确定,用通用都市/日常场景。

测评维度(7 个)

维度设计基于 SWAS (Kuijpers et al., 2014)、NCPM (Jacobs, 2015)、平行与偏离理论 (Menninghaus et al., 2024)、Biber MD 分析 (1988)、聚焦理论 (Genette, 1980)。详见 references/style-dimensions.md

# 维度 A 端 B 端
1 处理模式 沉浸式:叙事推进,不关注写法 审美式:放缓品读,关注语言质感
2 心理意象 高意象:感官丰富,画面感强 低意象:白描事实,不渲染感官
3 情感投入 高投入:直接写情绪和心理 低投入:情绪用动作/环境折射
4 语言可预测性 高平行:口语化,句式随意,流畅 高偏离:用词考究,句式有设计感
5 信息密度 高密度:每句推新信息,跳跃 低密度:信息逐步释放,有过渡
6 叙事距离 内聚焦:贴着 POV 角色呼吸 外聚焦:镜头拉远,冷静观察
7 对话对抗性 高对抗:交锋感强,互相挤压 低对抗:潜台词多,含蓄回避

每个维度的对比样例写法见 references/style-dimensions.md


第二阶段:精调

第一阶段结束后,汇总结果。在用户有明确偏好的维度上,进一步细化。

精调方式:在用户偏好的方向上,写 2 段样例,只在该维度的程度上有差异。比如用户在「语言可预测性」维度选了「高平行」端,精调时给 A=极口语碎片感、B=中等口语有节奏。

不需要对所有 7 个维度精调。只对用户有强偏好的 3-4 个维度做精调即可,其余维度按粗筛结果直接用。


收束:写入小说宪法

测评完成后,更新 CLAUDE.md 中「小说宪法」的以下段落(直接替换原文,不创建新 section):

叙事纹理:按 7 维度填入用户偏好位置。

处理模式:[落点]  心理意象:[落点]  情感投入:[落点]
语言可预测性:[落点]  信息密度:[落点]
叙事距离:[落点]  对话对抗性:[落点]

作者人格:从叙事纹理推导以下三个字段,其余字段保持不变:

  • 叙事姿态 → 由「叙事距离」推导(内聚焦=贴着主角,外聚焦=冷眼旁观)
  • 情感温度 → 由「情感投入」推导(高投入=热,低投入=冷,中性=温)
  • 信息习惯 → 由「信息密度」推导(高密度=藏一半说一半,低密度=明牌全摊)

如果用户在测评中提到了喜欢的作品,追加到「风格锚点」。

向用户展示最终结果确认后再写入。


禁止

  • 用抽象问题替代对比样例(「你喜欢快还是慢」)
  • 对比样例脱离用户小说题材
  • 跳过用户表示「差不多」的维度继续追问
  • 所有维度都用同一组固定样例——必须根据用户题材即兴生成
  • 测评结论不落盘

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 11d ago First seen · 106 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f8c1d3f9e51e

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novel-taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository TulanCN/vibe-noveling (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,464 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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