pre-write-checklist

pre-write-checklist is a skill for Claude Code from wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,648 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist that makes an AI writer reread a story’s key files before writing each new chapter.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking the story constitution, style guide, specifications, plans, tasks, character states, relationships, plot tracking, and validation rules before writing.
Why use it?
It reduces forgotten plot details, inconsistent characters, repeated events, and conflicts with the story’s rules during long projects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for checking the story constitution, style guide, specifications, plans, tasks, character states, relationships, plot tracking, and validation rules before writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills/pre-write-checklist
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 wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills --skill pre-write-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,648 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 $0.00040 $0.03648
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01824
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00730
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00365

Measured 13d ago against content hash 4c38ed73ac90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pre-write-checklist 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 13d 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.

templates/skills/quality-assurance/pre-write-checklist/SKILL.md · 542 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 542 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

写作前强制检查清单

核心功能

解决AI长篇失焦问题 - 这是Novel Writer Skills v1.0的核心创新。

问题根源

用户反馈:使用novel-writer创作,前30章质量很好,但30章后AI开始:

  • 忘记前文设定
  • 角色性格不一致
  • 情节重复或矛盾
  • 忽略创作宪法的原则

根本原因:长对话导致AI遗忘早期context,即使specification.md写得再详细也会被忘记。

解决方案

每次写作前强制重读所有关键文件 → AI重新加载完整context → 保持一致性


9项强制检查清单

每次执行/write命令时,必须先完成此检查清单:

📋 写作前检查清单(必须完成):

✓ 1. memory/constitution.md - 创作宪法
✓ 2. memory/style-reference.md - 风格参考(如有)
✓ 3. stories/*/specification.md - 故事规格
✓ 4. stories/*/creative-plan.md - 创作计划
✓ 5. stories/*/tasks.md - 当前任务
✓ 6. spec/tracking/character-state.json - 角色状态
✓ 7. spec/tracking/relationships.json - 关系网络
✓ 8. spec/tracking/plot-tracker.json - 情节追踪(如有)
✓ 9. spec/tracking/validation-rules.json - 验证规则(如有)

📊 上下文加载状态:✅ 完成

工作原理

自动触发时机

  1. 用户执行 /write 命令
  2. 本Skill自动激活
  3. 强制执行检查清单
  4. 输出确认报告
  5. 然后才开始写作

执行流程

用户: /write 第10章

         ↓

[pre-write-checklist 自动激活]

         ↓

步骤1:读取 memory/constitution.md
步骤2:读取 memory/style-reference.md(如有)
步骤3:读取 stories/*/specification.md
步骤4:读取 stories/*/creative-plan.md
步骤5:读取 stories/*/tasks.md
步骤6:读取 spec/tracking/character-state.json
步骤7:读取 spec/tracking/relationships.json
步骤8:读取 spec/tracking/plot-tracker.json(如有)
步骤9:读取 spec/tracking/validation-rules.json(如有)

         ↓

输出确认:
📋 写作前检查清单(已完成):
✓ 1-9 所有文件已读取
📊 上下文加载状态:✅ 完成

关键信息摘要:
- 创作原则:[从constitution提取]
- 当前任务:[从tasks.md提取]
- 主要角色:[从character-state提取]
- 情节进度:[从plot-tracker提取]

         ↓

开始写作第10章...

输出格式

标准输出(所有文件存在)

📋 写作前检查清单(已完成):

✓ 1. memory/constitution.md - 创作宪法
   → 核心原则:[列出2-3条关键原则]

✓ 2. memory/style-reference.md - 风格参考
   → 风格要点:[提取关键风格要求]

✓ 3. stories/xxx/specification.md - 故事规格
   → 故事类型:[言情/悬疑/历史等]
   → P0元素:[必须包含的元素]

✓ 4. stories/xxx/creative-plan.md - 创作计划
   → 当前阶段:[第X卷/第X章]
   → 本章目标:[情节/情感目标]

✓ 5. stories/xxx/tasks.md - 当前任务
   → 待写章节:[第X章]
   → 任务状态:[pending/in_progress]

✓ 6. spec/tracking/character-state.json - 角色状态
   → 主要角色:[列出角色名和当前状态]

✓ 7. spec/tracking/relationships.json - 关系网络
   → 核心关系:[主角与谁的关系变化]

✓ 8. spec/tracking/plot-tracker.json - 情节追踪
   → 活跃线索:[当前进行中的情节线]

✓ 9. spec/tracking/validation-rules.json - 验证规则
   → 自动修复:[启用/禁用]

📊 上下文加载状态:✅ 完成(加载9个文件,约XXXX tokens)

🎯 准备写作第X章...

Read the full file on GitHub · 542 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. 13d ago First seen · 542 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 4c38ed73ac90

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pre-write-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills (258 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,648 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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