Novel Characters & Design Sheets Agent Skill

Extracts structured character profiles, visual turnarounds, voice prompts, and interactive cast reports from novels and stories for AI…

Context cost
42k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
15 files · 295.4 kB2 scripts among them — read before you run
Licence
Apache-2.0the author’s own terms
Last change
—v2.0.0
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

从小说或短故事里拆出角色表、人物画像、形象提示词、音色提示词, 其中形象提示词含一张角色设定图的完整版面指令(左半身像 + 右全身三视图 + 细节条), 产出 JSON + Markdown + 可交互的 report.html。 报告语言可指定(--lang),默认中文,任意语言都支持;零依赖、零 API key、不出图。 Use when asked to 拆小说角色、分析人物、生成角色卡、character sheets from a novel。

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

content

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md11.8 kB · preview
--- name: novel-characters allowed-tools: - Read - Write - Bash - Task - Glob metadata: version: 2.0.0 triggers: - novel-characters - 拆角色 - 拆书角色 - 小说角色 - 人物画像 - 角色卡 - 三视图 - character sheet from novel license: Apache-2.0 requires: bins: - node # >= 18,只用标准库,无 npm 依赖 runtimes: - claude-code - codex ---
35## novel-characters
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37输入一篇小说/短故事,输出每个角色的:人物画像、形象提示词、音色提示词、角色设定图的版面指令。
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39**本 skill 不出图,只产提示词。**出图是下游的事——它要选模型、选画风、选画幅,那三件事在这里一个都答不了。
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41{baseDir} = 本文件所在目录。脚本 {baseDir}/scripts/novel-characters.mjs,零依赖,node 直接跑。
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43**运行环境**:Claude Code 和 codex 都能跑,没有差别——这条管线全是 node 脚本加模型读写,不碰任何本机可执行文件。
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45---
46
47### Step 0 — 确定报告语言
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49用户可以指定语言,比如「用英文」「--lang en」「日本語で」。**没说就是中文(zh)。**
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51这个 lang 会一路传下去:第二趟生成角色卡时决定人类可读字段用什么语言,validate 和 render 也都要带上。
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53**界面文案分两种情况:**
This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md633 words
Files15
LicenceApache-2.0
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈160
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
41,840
on trigger
The instruction body and 14 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
21.0%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

42k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It asks the agent to write files, using whatever file access your client already has. Whether it reaches the network is not declared.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessnot declared

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

15 files, 295.4 kB on disk. Mostly text — the instructions the model reads — with 2 scripts in it that your client would run only if the instructions tell it to. 2 files of its source are not in the download — listed after these, with why.

  • SKILL.md11.8 kB
  • README.en.md11.5 kB
  • README.md10.3 kB
  • examples/渡口-cast.json42.5 kB
  • examples/渡口-cast.md40.2 kB
  • examples/渡口.txt2.3 kB
  • references/profile-pass.md18.7 kB
  • references/report-style.md8.8 kB
  • references/roster-pass.md1.9 kB
  • references/schema.md6.0 kB
  • references/sheet.md3.9 kB
  • scripts/novel-characters.mjs85.4 kB
  • scripts/selftest.mjs42.0 kB
  • references/test-fixtures/upstream/README.md0.4 kB
  • references/test-fixtures/upstream/渡口-outline.json9.7 kB

Not in the download

Not carried is a type a skill download does not hold. Take them from its source.

  • assets/report.webpnot carried
  • assets/sheet.jpgnot carried
What is not in it

A skill installs nothing and depends on nothing: it is a folder your client reads. This one carries 2 scripts beside the text, so the download is 15 files — not the whole of its source: 2 files are left out. They are listed under the files, with why. The Apache-2.0 licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Novel Characters & Design Sheets · 42k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/novel-characters-design-sheets" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets ] || { mv .claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/novel-characters-design-sheets" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add eternityspring/novel-characters-design-sheets

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/novel-characters-design-sheets" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/novel-characters-design-sheets" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/novel-characters-design-sheets/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as novel-characters in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, novel-characters-design-sheets. Not in this download: 2 files of its source (the full list, and why). Take them from its source.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Version2.0.0
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referenceeternityspring/novel-characters-design-sheets

Versions

v2.0.0 is what is on the shelf; no release here carries a date. Instructions change more often than APIs do — a skill can be rewritten entirely without anything it depends on moving.

v2.0.0
  • No earlier releases have been published to the marketplace.
Pinning

The install command always fetches the release that is current the day you run it — v2.0.0 today — and cannot ask for an earlier one. The copy on your disk does not change until you run it again.

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