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Long-form novel analyzer

Breaks down a long Chinese web novel into chapters, plot, rhythm, characters and style notes.

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Repository
zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode
Stars
8,255
Licence
MIT
Files
15 files

What it does

This skill teaches an AI agent to act as a structure analyst for long serialized novels, mainly Chinese web fiction. It builds a chapter index, summarises each chapter, then produces a readable report covering plot causality, timelines, character relationships, emotional hooks, pacing, settings and writing style. Results are saved as files in a folder so work can resume later and reuse earlier results.

Great for

  • Authors who want to study how a successful long web novel is built, such as its opening three chapters and pacing
  • Writers planning their own serial who want abstract structural lessons rather than copied settings or scenes
  • Students of narrative structure who need organised chapter-by-chapter notes

Skip it if

  • Short stories or novels under about 20,000 characters, where the skill itself suggests a different short-form skill
  • Anyone wanting to copy a book's specific characters, settings or signature scenes, since the skill is written to transfer only abstract mechanisms
  • Users without the legal right to process the full text of a copyrighted novel, as the skill reads and stores the whole manuscript locally

Try asking

  • “Analyse this novel TXT file and break down its first three golden chapters”
  • “Continue my existing analysis folder and fill in the missing chapter summaries”
  • “Generate a style profile for this book from a few representative passages”
  • “Build a report on this book's pacing and emotional hooks”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Long-form novel analyzerInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    story-long-analyze.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip story-long-analyze.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip story-long-analyze.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Start with a single book and let the index step finish before asking for the full report
  • Check the output folder's progress file if a run is interrupted; the skill resumes from saved stages
  • Ask for the style profile only after the chapter summaries exist, so it can sample real passages

What's inside

  • references/author-facing.md
  • references/final-checks.md
  • references/index-rebuild.md
  • references/inspiration-library.md
  • references/pipeline-ops.md
  • references/stage1-golden-chapters.md
  • references/stage2-extraction.md
  • references/stage3-plot-rhythm.md
  • references/stage4-characters-settings.md
  • references/stage5-report.md
  • references/style-profile-generator.md
  • references/synthesis-inputs.md
  • scripts/build_chapter_index.py
  • scripts/inspect_existing_assets.py
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.