Agent skill

Character Pressure Lab

by BingHanOfUESTC in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team

Character desire, pressure, contradiction, and choice design for literary short fiction.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Character Pressure Lab

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill character-pressure-lab -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team character-pressure-lab --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/teams/story_team/skills/character-pressure-lab .claude/skills/character-pressure-lab && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
character-pressure-lab
GitHub stars
106
Token cost
~251 tokens
SKILL.md length
19 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Character desire, pressure, contradiction, and choice design for literary short fiction.

  • Works in 5 steps: 人物四件套 → 让人物可信的方法 → 关系压力 → …
  • A story feels concept-driven
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Characters feel hollow

What it does

Character Pressure Lab is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Character desire, pressure, contradiction, and choice design for literary short fiction. Use when a story feels concept-driven, characters feel hollow, or revision needs stronger motivation and irreversible decisions.

Its SKILL.md is about 250 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Creative writing and fiction. The repository describes itself as: Build persistent multi-agent teams that collaborate like real organizations to deliver complex tasks. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A story feels concept-driven
  • Characters feel hollow
  • Revision needs stronger motivation and irreversible decisions

Example prompts

  • “/character-pressure-lab”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. 人物四件套
  2. 让人物可信的方法
  3. 关系压力
  4. 人物空心警报
  5. 返修问题

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7e28736. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Character Pressure Lab loads about 251 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 19 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~251

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team at commit 7e28736, republished under its MIT licence (© BingHanOfUESTC). 19 words, ~251 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/character-pressure-lab/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
character-pressure-lab
description
Character desire, pressure, contradiction, and choice design for literary short fiction. Use when a story feels concept-driven, characters feel hollow, or revision needs stronger motivation and irreversible decisions.
type
reference
model-invocable
false

Character Pressure Lab

人物不是设定、职业、性格标签或创伤说明。人物是在压力下暴露出来的一套欲望、恐惧、谎言和选择。


1. 人物四件套

每个核心人物必须有:

text
Want:他现在具体想要什么。
Need:他不愿承认但真正需要面对什么。
Lie:他用来维持旧生活的错误信念。
Cost:如果继续追求 want,他会失去什么。

短篇不需要完整传记,但必须有当下压力。


2. 让人物可信的方法

text
给人物一个不体面的欲望,而不是正确愿望。
给人物一个能理解但不能完全原谅的选择。
让人物说谎时有理由,说真话时付代价。
让人物在结尾做的选择从前文性格里长出来,而不是作者强行安排。

3. 关系压力

强关系不是“他们很相爱/仇恨/亏欠”,而是:

text
A 想从 B 身上得到某物。
B 知道或误解这个欲望。
B 也需要 A 付出某种代价。
两人都不愿把真正的筹码说出口。

对话的潜台词来自筹码不公开。


4. 人物空心警报

text
人物只在解释设定时出现
人物的选择总是道德正确
人物没有具体生活习惯
人物说的话可以换给任何角色
人物哭、沉默、崩溃,但没有做出改变局势的动作

出现这些信号时,重写人物动机和关键场景。


5. 返修问题

text
主角在每一场想赢什么?
这一场如果失败,他会损失什么?
他说出口的话和真正想要的东西差在哪里?
他的最后选择是否既合理又让人疼?

© BingHanOfUESTC, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in teams/story_team/skills/character-pressure-lab of BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7e28736

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Questions about Character Pressure Lab

What does Character Pressure Lab do?

Character desire, pressure, contradiction, and choice design for literary short fiction. Character Pressure Lab is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Character desire, pressure, contradiction, and choice design for literary short fiction.

When should I use Character Pressure Lab?

Character Pressure Lab fits situations like: A story feels concept-driven; characters feel hollow; revision needs stronger motivation and irreversible decisions.

How do I install Character Pressure Lab in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill character-pressure-lab -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (teams/story_team/skills/character-pressure-lab in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team) into .claude/skills/character-pressure-lab in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Character Pressure Lab in Codex?

Run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill character-pressure-lab -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (teams/story_team/skills/character-pressure-lab in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team) into .agents/skills/character-pressure-lab in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Character Pressure Lab in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill character-pressure-lab -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/character-pressure-lab, .gemini/skills/character-pressure-lab, .github/skills/character-pressure-lab and .opencode/skills/character-pressure-lab in your project.

What does Character Pressure Lab need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Character Pressure Lab is instructions for the agent only.

Does Character Pressure Lab access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Character Pressure Lab safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Character Pressure Lab use?

Character Pressure Lab is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Character Pressure Lab use?

About 251 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Character Pressure Lab?

BingHanOfUESTC (a GitHub user) maintains it in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team, which has 106 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 23, 2026.

Source: BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.