novel-steer

novel-steer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Xiaoyangy/novel-studio. It costs 73 tokens per session (489 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for queuing a change request for the next novel-studio writing run. The request is saved until the pipeline starts or resumes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to queue requests such as changing a protagonist, moving a relationship plot earlier, adding a villain, or increasing the pace, then apply them by resuming the pipeline.
Why use it?
It lets you record feedback between writing runs without needing to edit the running process. The coordinator can then assess whether the change affects settings, existing chapters, or future chapters.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to queue requests such as changing a protagonist, moving a relationship plot earlier, adding a villain, or increasing the pace, then apply them by resuming the pipeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaoyangy/novel-studio/novel-steer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Xiaoyangy/novel-studio --skill novel-steer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xiaoyangy/novel-studio

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 489 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 $0.00073 $0.00489
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00049

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8f2f9834ae71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novel-steer 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 10d 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-steer/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

novel-steer:排队干预指令

为当前项目排队一条干预意见,持久化到 run.json,下次 --pipeline 启动 / 恢复创作时自动注入 正在运行的 Coordinator,由其评估影响范围(改设定 / 重写已写章节 / 后续章节调整)。

原 TUI 是对正在运行的会话实时注入;一次性子命令进程无法注入另一进程里运行的会话, 因此本子命令做的是「排队待下次生效」。要立刻生效,排队后再跑一次 --pipeline 恢复创作即可。

前置条件

  • 已完成首次配置(见 skills/README.md)。
  • 在项目目录下运行(含 output/novel/)。

执行

novel-studio --steer "把感情线提前到第4章,增加男女主的对手戏"
novel-studio --steer "节奏太慢了,加快推进"

干预示例

干预指令 系统可能的响应
"主角改成女性" 修改角色设定,评估已写章节是否需要重写
"把感情线提前到第4章" 调整大纲,可能重写第 4 章及后续
"加入一个反派角色" 更新角色档案和世界规则,在后续章节引入
"节奏太慢了,加快推进" 调整后续章节的大纲密度

生效流程

novel-studio --steer "<指令>"(排队)→ novel-studio --pipeline(恢复创作,注入生效)。

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. 10d ago First seen · 37 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 8f2f9834ae71

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novel-steer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xiaoyangy/novel-studio (105 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 489 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.