novel-writer-workflow-guide

novel-writer-workflow-guide is a skill for Claude Code from wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (3,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A seven-step workflow for planning and writing a novel, from setting creative rules and defining the story to drafting and reviewing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a story specification, answer clarification questions, plan chapters and character arcs, track writing tasks, draft chapters, and analyze the result.
Why use it?
It turns a large writing project into clear decisions and tasks, and helps expose unclear story choices before they cause problems later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create a story specification, answer clarification questions, plan chapters and character arcs, track writing tasks, draft chapters, and analyze the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills/workflow-guide
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills --skill workflow-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,098 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

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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 $0.00036 $0.03098
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01549
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00620
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00310

Measured 11d ago against content hash 317033ca8cb4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-writer-workflow-guide 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.

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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/workflow-guide/SKILL.md · 382 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 382 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Novel Writer 系统化创作工作流

当用户说"我想写小说"

立即激活此工作流指南。

七步方法论概览

1. /constitution  → 建立创作原则
2. /specify       → 定义故事规格
3. /clarify       → 澄清模糊点
4. /plan          → 制定创作计划
5. /tasks         → 分解执行任务
6. /write         → AI 辅助写作
7. /analyze       → 质量验证分析

详细步骤指导

步骤 1:建立创作原则

"让我们从使用 /constitution 定义你的创作原则开始。这建立了你的核心价值观、质量标准和这个故事的不可协商规则。"

为什么这很重要:作为你的"创作宪法" - 决策会参考这些原则。

包含什么

  • 核心价值观(传递什么理念)
  • 质量底线(绝对不妥协的)
  • 风格原则(语言、节奏、氛围)
  • 内容原则(角色、情节、世界观规范)

典型时长:15-20 分钟

步骤 2:定义故事规格

"现在使用 /specify 创建类似产品规格的故事文档。像产品经理一样思考:这个故事是什么,为谁写的,什么使它独特?"

要包含什么

  • 一句话概括
  • 目标读者
  • 核心冲突
  • 主要角色
  • 成功标准

为什么这很重要

  • 明确"为谁写"和"写什么"
  • 设定可衡量的成功标准
  • 为后续创作提供明确目标

典型时长:30-45 分钟

特殊标记

  • [需要澄清] - 标记需要进一步明确的点
  • [核心需求] - 不可妥协的需求
  • [可选特性] - 锦上添花的内容

步骤 3:澄清关键决策

"运行 /clarify 通过 5 个精准问题解决任何不清楚的方面。AI 会识别你的规格中的模糊点,帮助你做出清晰的决定。"

为什么这很重要:规划中的模糊 = 写作中的混乱。

过程

  • AI 识别规格中的模糊点
  • 生成最多 5 个关键问题
  • 交互式回答,答案直接更新规格
  • 保留决策历史以便回溯

典型问题

  • "主角的核心动机是复仇还是正义?"
  • "故事节奏是快速爽文还是慢热精品?"
  • "结局是大团圆还是留有遗憾?"

典型时长:10-15 分钟

步骤 4:制定创作计划

"使用 /plan 创建章节结构和技术方法。这是你决定如何实现你的规格的地方。"

要设计什么

  • 章节分解与活跃情节线
  • 节奏和张力分布
  • 伏笔计划
  • 角色弧线映射

为什么这很重要

  • 把抽象需求变成具体方案
  • 选择合适的写作方法和结构
  • 设计情节、人物、世界观的具体实现

技术决策示例

  • "使用七点结构增强悬念"
  • "采用多线叙事展现复杂性"
  • "通过限定视角增加神秘感"

典型时长:45-60 分钟

步骤 5:分解执行任务

"执行 /tasks 生成带优先级、依赖关系和估算工作量的可操作任务列表。"

任务类型

  • 章节写作任务
  • 角色档案完善
  • 世界观设定补充
  • 修订和润色任务

任务标记

  • [P] - 可并行执行
  • [依赖:X] - 依赖任务 X 完成
  • [高优] - 高优先级任务

为什么这很重要

  • 大目标变成小步骤,降低创作难度
  • 明确优先级和依赖关系
  • 支持并行创作提高效率

典型时长:20-30 分钟

步骤 6:开始写作

"现在 /write 逐章使用 AI 辅助。规格和计划指导每一章,确保一致性。"

写作时

  • 类型知识 skills 自动激活
  • 一致性检查器在后台运行
  • 节奏监控在检测到问题时提醒

执行原则

  • 严格遵循 constitution 的原则
  • 参考 plan 中的技术方案
  • 完成 tasks 中的具体任务
  • 保持与规格的一致性

推荐节奏

  • 每次写作会话 1-2 章
  • 每 3-5 章停下来回顾
  • 保持前进动力,不要过度编辑

步骤 7:质量检查

"每 5 章运行 /analyze 保持质量并及早发现问题。"

两种分析模式

  • 框架分析(写作前):验证规划
  • 内容分析(写作后):验证执行

验证维度

  • 宪法合规性(是否违背核心原则)
  • 规格满足度(是否实现了需求)
  • 内容一致性(情节、时间、人物)
  • 质量标准(是否达到设定标准)

Read the full file on GitHub · 382 lines

Changes

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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 · 382 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 317033ca8cb4

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novel-writer-workflow-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository wordflowlab/novel-writer-skills (258 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 3,098 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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