How penglonghuang/chinese-novelist-skill works
This repository is a Claude Code skill that guides an AI through planning and writing a complete Chinese novel. The documented user workflow moves from preference-aware initialization and layered questions through planning, writing-mode selection, chapter production, and final validation; the output is a novel project containing an outline, character profiles, a writing plan, and chapters. Flow documents describe the stages, while writing guides provide craft support. The README documents these relationships; the sampled word-count script implements a portion of validation, but the other runtime details are not sampled.
Main entry points: phase3-writing.md Writing modes · phase0-initialization.md Initialization · phase1-layer2-customize.md Customization · phase2-planning.md Story planning
Components 14
Novel workflow
- Novel skill
SKILL.md - Initialization
references/flows/phase0-initialization.md - Core questions
references/flows/phase1-layer1-core.md - Customization
references/flows/phase1-layer2-customize.md - Story planning
references/flows/phase2-planning.md - Writing modes
references/flows/phase3-writing.md - Shared infrastructure
references/flows/shared-infrastructure.md
Writing support
- Title guidance
references/flows/phase1-layer3-title.md - Writing guides
references/guides
State and outputs
- User preferences
- Novel project
Quality checks
- Manuscript validation
references/flows/phase4-validation.md - Word-count checker
scripts/check_chapter_wordcount.py
Other components
- Novel author
Connections 14
- Novel author → Novel skill: starts
README.md - Novel skill → Initialization: begins with
README.md - Initialization → Shared infrastructure: loads preferences
README.md - Initialization → Core questions: continues to
README.md - Core questions → Customization: offers
README.md - Customization → Title guidance: then supports
- Customization → Story planning: advances to
README.md - Story planning → Writing modes: selects
README.md - Writing modes → Novel project: writes chapters
README.md - Writing modes → Writing guides: uses craft guidance
- Writing modes → Manuscript validation: finishes with
README.md - Manuscript validation → Word-count checker: checks chapter length
README.md - Shared infrastructure → User preferences: stores preferences
README.md - Story planning → Novel project: produces plan
README.md