plotrail-intake

plotrail-intake is a skill for Codex from waylean/plotrail. It costs 144 tokens per session (1,658 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editing and intake workflow for existing fiction manuscripts. It reads chapters as source material, separating confirmed story facts from guesses before they become part of the novel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review, lightly revise, and continue existing chapters; learn an author's writing patterns; extract story details; check continuity; and prepare notes for ongoing novel work.
Why use it?
It helps preserve the author's intended plot, characters, timeline, relationships, and voice while finding continuity problems or overly artificial prose.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to review, lightly revise, and continue existing chapters; learn an author's writing patterns; extract story details; check continuity; and prepare notes for ongoing novel work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waylean/plotrail/plotrail-intake
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add waylean/plotrail --skill plotrail-intake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/waylean/plotrail

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,658 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 $0.00144 $0.01658
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.00663
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00166

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ede84fc1b589, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plotrail-intake 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 1mo 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.

plotrail-intake/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PlotRail Intake

Use this skill for existing prose. Treat the manuscript as evidence, not approved canon, until the user approves extracted facts or the project already marks them as accepted.

PlotRail Intake is the editor and intake layer for PlotRail. It helps an agent read existing chapters, diagnose problems, refine text conservatively, extract reusable story state, learn author style, audit continuity, and prepare compact handoff briefs for PlotRail (plotrail).

Core Rule

Preserve author intent and remove AI-flavored prose by default. Do not silently rewrite plot outcomes, core character motivation, relationship direction, timeline, genre promise, voice, or approved canon. Do not imitate a living author's distinctive style; use named authors only as high-level craft anchors such as pacing, scene pressure, dialogue economy, information release, concrete texture, or hook design. Separate:

  • text-confirmed manuscript facts
  • inferred but uncertain facts
  • approval status for transferred facts
  • editorial diagnosis
  • proposed edits
  • final revised prose

If an edit changes canon, relationship direction, ending direction, power rules, or the author's likely intent, stop and ask for approval.

Mode Selection

Choose the smallest mode that answers the user:

  1. Cold-start pasted prose - The user pasted one chapter, excerpt, or long handwritten passage. Read references/intake-protocol.md.
  2. Chapter diagnosis - The user asks what is weak or how to improve a chapter. Read references/diagnosis-rubric.md.
  3. Chapter correction or refinement - The user asks to correct, 校正, polish, 润色, make better, edit, revise, or rewrite existing prose. First run the minimum pass from references/intake-protocol.md, then read references/refinement-workflow.md.
  4. Manuscript intake - The user provides multiple chapters or a folder before continuation. Read references/intake-protocol.md.
  5. Style learning - The user asks to learn voice, compare original/revised drafts, or build an editing profile. Read references/style-learning.md.
  6. Long-form audit - The user asks for consistency across chapters. Read references/continuity-audit.md.
  7. Handoff to PlotRail writing - The next step is planning or drafting with PlotRail (plotrail). Read references/plotrail-handoff.md and references/shared-context.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 1mo ago First seen · 153 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A ede84fc1b589

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plotrail-intake is a skill published in the GitHub repository waylean/plotrail (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 1,658 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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