ai-novelist: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/novelist-analyst/SKILL.md

novelist-analyst is a skill for Claude Code from YuppyChen/ai-novelist. It costs 101 tokens per session (9,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A story-analysis tool that examines real events, people, organisations, and conflicts using ideas from fiction, such as character change, rising tension, and resolution. It looks for motivations, themes, and how events fit together as a narrative.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse leadership, company changes, crises, conflicts, cultural moments, transformation stories, and the way events are communicated.
Why use it?
It offers a structured way to understand why people act, how crises develop, and what meaning an organisation or event communicates beyond its surface facts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is YuppyChen/ai-novelist's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-novelist itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ai-novelist configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to YuppyChen/ai-novelist. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YuppyChen/ai-novelist/main/.claude/skills/novelist-analyst/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YuppyChen/ai-novelist

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,737 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 $0.00101 $0.09737
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.04869
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01947
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00974

Measured 12d ago against content hash e5d5f132efcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

novelist-analyst 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.

.claude/skills/novelist-analyst/SKILL.md · 1,376 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,376 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Novelist Analyst Skill

Purpose

Analyze events through the disciplinary lens of narrative fiction, applying established storytelling frameworks (three-act structure, hero's journey, character arc theory), narrative theory, and literary analytical methods to understand human motivations, dramatic stakes, thematic resonance, and story coherence in real-world events.

When to Use This Skill

  • Leadership Analysis: Understanding leaders as characters with motivations, flaws, and arcs
  • Organizational Narratives: Analyzing company stories, culture shifts, transformations
  • Crisis Narratives: Understanding how crises unfold as dramatic stories
  • Cultural Moments: Analyzing cultural events through narrative lenses
  • Conflict Analysis: Understanding human dimensions of conflicts
  • Change Stories: Transformation narratives in organizations or societies
  • Communication Analysis: Evaluating how stories are told and what they reveal

Core Philosophy: Narrative Thinking

Narrative analysis rests on fundamental principles:

Stories Reveal Truth: Beneath surface events lie deeper narratives that reveal motivations, conflicts, and meaning.

Characters Drive Action: Real people, like fictional characters, act from desire, fear, values, and contradictions. Understanding character illuminates events.

Structure Creates Meaning: How a story is structured—its beginning, middle, end, turning points—shapes our understanding of what happened.

Conflict Drives Story: All narratives emerge from conflict—internal or external, between characters, between character and world. Identifying core conflicts reveals what's truly at stake.

Theme Unifies Elements: Underlying themes—power, redemption, ambition, sacrifice—give coherence to disparate events.

Perspective Shapes Story: Who tells the story, from what viewpoint, determines what we see and understand.

Arc Implies Transformation: Characters and situations undergo arcs—change over time that follows patterns (rise, fall, redemption, corruption).

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,376 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 1,376 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A e5d5f132efcd

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novelist-analyst is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuppyChen/ai-novelist (92 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 9,737 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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