novel-review

novel-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xiaoyangy/novel-studio. It costs 67 tokens per session (708 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A chapter-by-chapter review workflow for an existing novel that produces editorial feedback without changing the original chapters. The feedback is saved in a project review folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing all chapters or a selected chapter range, finding concrete story and writing issues, and preparing feedback for a later rewrite step.
Why use it?
It separates diagnosis from rewriting, so the original text remains intact while problems in structure, pacing, cause and effect, dialogue, and scene detail are recorded.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is cd ./output/novel.

Good fit Reviewing all chapters or a selected chapter range, finding concrete story and writing issues, and preparing feedback for a later rewrite step.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xiaoyangy/novel-studio
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaoyangy/novel-studio/novel-review

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 708 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00067 $0.00708
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00071

Measured 12d ago against content hash 820f70217aca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-review 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 12d 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.

skills/novel-review/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

novel-review:pipeline review 阶段评审(不改原文)

对一个已有 novel-studio 项目通过 novel-studio --pipeline --stages review 逐章调用 Editor 评审, 输出审阅意见到 reviews/,不改动原文。 Editor 会读取内置 human_feel_craft 作为人工感正向标尺:检查现场异常、物件/痕迹回扣、主观误判、短对话/动作拍、现实支架和可复核因果链,避免只用禁用词和 AI 腔做负向判断。 Editor 也会读取内置 writing_techniques_digest:检查前台故事、目标/阻力/失败代价/新增信息、钩子接力、事件铺垫/过程/余波、过渡章期待铺垫和中文标点功能。

前置条件

  • 已完成首次配置(见 skills/README.md)。
  • 一个已有项目目录(含 chapters/ 等产物)。项目根 = 当前工作目录,不能用位置参数 传路径(会被当成多余参数报错),需先 cd 进项目目录。

执行

# 先进入项目目录,再评审全部章节
cd ./output/novel
novel-studio --pipeline --stages review

# 只评审第 3–8 章
novel-studio --pipeline --stages review --from 3 --to 8

# 调整每章 Editor 的硬时间预算(默认 90s)
novel-studio --pipeline --stages review --budget 5m

参数

参数 默认 说明
--stages review 只执行 pipeline 的 review 阶段
--from <n> 0(自动) 起始章号(含)
--to <n> 0(自动) 结束章号(含)
--budget <dur> 90s 每章 Editor 调用硬时间预算

产物

  • 审阅意见:项目 reviews/ 目录
  • 不改动 chapters/*.md 原文
  • 人工感问题会归入审美/节奏/因果建议,修法应具体到补哪个物件、哪处动作、哪条证据链或哪句对话偏差。
  • refer 技巧问题会归入结构/节奏/连贯/审美建议,修法优先补章节任务和事件余波,不用句子润色掩盖结构缺口。

后续

拿到评审意见后想据此改写,使用 novel-rewrite--pipeline --stages rewrite)。

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 51 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 820f70217aca

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novel-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xiaoyangy/novel-studio (107 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 708 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.