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wgwtest/novel-writing
Codex skill for fiction planning and revision: grounded viewpoints, consequential dialogue, and style-preserving edits. English and Chinese examples.
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Individual skills in this repository
- novel-writing
novel-writing
How it works
novel-writing
When your agent uses it
Use when setting up a fiction project, planning, drafting, revising, or reviewing fiction where chapter versions, author feedback, character knowledge, scene causality, dialogue, or style fidelity matter.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
46 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
2,489 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
11,691 tokensLoaded on request
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The playbook
- Overview
- When to Use
- Stage Selection
- Long-Fiction Context Strategy
- Hard Rules
- Working Pattern
- References
Scripts executed separately
scripts/check_manuscript_text.py
Files
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Read SKILL.md
# Novel Writing
## Overview
Use this skill for fiction work that needs narrative craft, not just sentence-level cleanup. It covers planning, drafting or continuing prose, and reviewing finished fiction. When a task crosses chapter versions, it also coordinates the project's manuscript handoff and author-feedback learning.
## When to Use
Use this skill when the user asks to:
- plan a chapter, scene, arc, volume, whole-story outline, story synopsis, canon document, or reveal sequence
- set up a fiction project that will keep formal chapters, working revisions, and author feedback across sessions
- continue or rewrite fiction prose
- check whether a chapter is structurally soundSkills included
- novel-writing
Repository facts
- License
- MIT
- Created
- Apr 18, 2026
- Last pushed
- Sep 26, 2026
- Forks
- 3
- Open issues
- 0
- Project activity
- Active
Before you install
Local scriptsAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 6, 2026
- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- No network access
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- 1 executable scriptin 1 file: novel-writing/scripts/check_manuscript_text.py:1
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
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novel-writing/scripts/check_manuscript_text.py
- Executable scriptline 1
#!/usr/bin/env python3
How the signals fit together
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- Executable script in code of a file that runsnovel-writing/scripts/check_manuscript_text.py:1High confidence
Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md novel-writing/SKILL.md | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md novel-writing/SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md novel-writing/SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md novel-writing/SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md novel-writing/SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md novel-writing/SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
