Agent skill

Prose Writing

by BingHanOfUESTC in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team

Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction. An agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Prose Writing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill prose-writing -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team prose-writing --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/prose-writing .claude/skills/prose-writing && 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
prose-writing
GitHub stars
106
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
571 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction. An agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

  • Revising prose: the sentence-level and paragraph-level craft that pulls readers into the story
  • SKILL.md covers Psychic Distance, Free Indirect Discourse, Sentence Rhythm and Sensory Grounding, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Creative writing and fiction

What it does

Prose Writing is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction. Use when writing or revising prose: the sentence-level and paragraph-level craft that pulls readers into the story. Project-specific voice comes from style files passed alongside this skill.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k 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

  • Revising prose: the sentence-level and paragraph-level craft that pulls readers into the story
  • Tasks that involve Creative writing and fiction

Example prompts

  • “/prose-writing”

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

Prose Writing loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 65 tokens; SKILL.md has 571 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~65
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

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). 571 words, ~1,037 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/prose-writing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
prose-writing
description
Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction. Use when writing or revising prose: the sentence-level and paragraph-level craft that pulls readers into the story. Project-specific voice comes from style files passed alongside this skill.
type
reference
model-invocable
false

Prose Writing

How prose pulls readers in. Style files carry the project's specific voice; read them before writing. This skill covers the patterns that create immersion regardless of project.

Psychic Distance

The distance between the reader and the character's consciousness. Gardner's continuum runs from far ("It was winter of the year 1853. A large man stepped out of the doorway.") to close ("Snow. Under your collar, down inside your shoes, freezing and plugging up your miserable soul.").

Control this deliberately. Move closer for emotional peaks, character-defining moments, and interiority. Pull back for transitions, time compression, and establishing context. The rhythm of close and far gives prose its emotional shape.

Default AI prose sits at a flat middle distance: close enough to seem personal, far enough to feel safe. Push past that. Go closer when it matters.

Free Indirect Discourse

Blend the narrator's voice with the character's perspective so third-person narration is colored by how the character thinks and sees.

Conventional: "Connie thought she was pretty and she believed that was the most important thing she could be."

Free indirect: "She knew she was pretty and that was everything."

The narrator doesn't announce the character's thoughts. The narration itself carries the character's voice, vocabulary, and judgment. This is the primary technique for close-third that actually feels intimate. Use the character's words, not the narrator's, when psychic distance is close.

Sentence Rhythm

Rhythm pulls readers along like a current. Vary length, structure, and pattern to match the moment.

Short sentences for tension, shock, emphasis. Longer cumulative sentences for immersion, reflection, complex emotion. Fragments for intimacy, interrupted thought, the feeling of a mind catching up to what just happened.

When every sentence follows the same pattern, such as subject, verb, object, repeat, the prose flattens regardless of content. A devastating scene and a mundane scene should not read the same way.

Sensory Grounding

Ground scenes in specific sensory details filtered through the POV character's attention. "The forest" is nowhere. "Pine needles crunching underfoot, the smell of wet bark" is a place.

What a character notices reveals who they are. A chef notices smells. A musician notices sounds. A soldier notices exits. One or two vivid, specific details do more work than a catalog of all five senses.

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Interiority

The POV character's inner life distinguishes prose fiction from screenplay: thoughts, reactions, memories, associations. "She felt sad" is a label. "She kept reaching for her phone to text him before remembering" is interiority that shows the reader something about grief.

In high-action scenes, interiority contracts to fragments: quick reactions, snap judgments. In reflective scenes, it expands. Match the depth of inner experience to the pace of the scene.

Show Through Action

Demonstrate character states through behavior, dialogue, and physical response.

"He was nervous about the meeting" is a label. "He checked his watch for the third time, then straightened a tie that was already straight" lets the reader see the nervousness and interpret it.

Tell for logistics, show for moments that matter. Summary narration works for transitions, routine actions, and time compression. Showing everything is as exhausting as telling everything.

Point of View

Stay in the established POV. In first person, the narrator can only report what they perceive, think, and feel. In third limited, access one character's interiority per scene.

Convey non-POV characters through observable behavior. Write "Her jaw tightened" rather than "She felt angry." The narrator can't know what's happening in someone else's head.

© 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/prose-writing of BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7e28736

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Questions about Prose Writing

What does Prose Writing do?

Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction. An agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Prose Writing is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Prose-level immersion patterns for narrative fiction.

When should I use Prose Writing?

Prose Writing fits situations like: revising prose: the sentence-level and paragraph-level craft that pulls readers into the story; tasks that involve Creative writing and fiction.

How do I install Prose Writing in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Prose Writing in Codex?

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

Can I use Prose Writing 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 prose-writing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/prose-writing, .gemini/skills/prose-writing, .github/skills/prose-writing and .opencode/skills/prose-writing in your project.

What does Prose Writing need to run?

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

Does Prose Writing 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 Prose Writing 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 Prose Writing use?

Prose Writing 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 Prose Writing use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k 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 Prose Writing?

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.