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by john-paul-ruf · Codex Skill · ★ 63
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Dedication To everyone who has an idea for a good book but doesn't know how to craft it, this is for you... For everyone else who may be impacted by this work, or whose sensibilities I have offended. I am so sorry. I just wanted to write my memoir and found out it is easier to write fiction than fact. This is the result. Foreword Books created in this engine The Last Compiler The Lien Cleartext Project Sephirot The Recursive Archivist Day One Reset The Empty Orbit The Keeper's Frequency Junk Souls I asked Claude and ChatGPT to audit ten books made in the MVP and this product with extended thinking on - here are the results Novel Engine A desktop application for building novels, not writing them. Novel Engine is a book-building system — an editorial production pipeline where the human author is the creative authority and seven specialized AI agents serve as the author's professional editorial team. You bring the story. The agents pitch, scaffold, draft in your voice, read, analyz
| Stars | 63 |
| Forks | 6 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | Codex Skill |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Quality Score | 58.2579592327704/100 |
| Open Issues | 7 |
| Last Updated | 2026-07-29 |
| Created | 2026-03-20 |
| Platforms | claude-code, codex, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~25k |
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novel-engine is Novel Engine is a desktop app that lets you construct novels. Seven AI agents handle the editorial pipeline — from pitch to published manuscript — while you focus on the story. Powered by Claude, Code. It is categorized as a Codex Skill with 63 GitHub stars.
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You can find installation instructions and usage details in the novel-engine GitHub repository at github.com/john-paul-ruf/novel-engine. The project has 63 stars and 6 forks, indicating an active community.
novel-engine is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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