analyze-hit-novel
ciel-oliver/analyze-hit-novel
analyze-hit-novel is an agent skill project by ciel-oliver on GitHub: Hit-novel teardown: breaks a hit novel or manju into a verifiable narrative system for adaptation reference. It covers topic, adaptation and episodes. 11 stars, last updated 2026-09-04, no license declared.
Editor's notes
Give Codex a full novel, chapters or a synopsis and invoke it: it first builds a fact card for each chapter (100–300 Chinese characters), then runs a six-dimension breakdown, compares the order events happen in the story with the order the author reveals them, and rates each chapter for plot intensity, emotional intensity and descriptive density. Output goes to 拆文库/<title>/ by default: the breakdown report, a chapter index CSV, a structure audit JSON and relationship graphs as PNG. With only a synopsis it gives a provisional analysis. All 4 demos are web novels with no manju example, and the repo has no license file.
- Type
- Upstream: IP evaluation and story breakdown
- Stages
- Topic · Adaptation · Episodes
- Format
- Agent skill
- Language
- Chinese
- GitHub stars
- ★ 11
- Last updated
- 2026-09-04
- License
- None declared
- SKILL.md files
- 1
- Checked by hand
- 2026-10-13
In the author's words
A hit-novel teardown skill that breaks a hit novel or manju into a verifiable narrative system to inspire later writing. Most AI manju are based on an original hit novel, so this skill can analyze what makes a manju a hit. `analyze-hit-novel` reads the full text of a novel or manju, analyzes characters, relationships, conflict, narrative order and pacing, and distills the hit mechanisms that actually work, making it easier to understand why a novel took off, how to write by emulating hit novels, and how to carry hit elements over into your own novel. Before writing a novel or manju you should first know why a work is popular and which plots and ideas can be learned and transferred. Supports installation in Codex.
Translated from the Chinese original.
Skills in this repo (1)
Names and descriptions come from each SKILL.md frontmatter; Chinese descriptions are shown in our English translation.
- analyze-hit-novel
Systematically breaks down the hit mechanisms of commercial fiction, web novels, mystery or genre novels. Use when the user provides a novel's full text, chapters, synopsis or reading notes and asks for a book teardown, analysis of character relationships and conflict, reconstruction of the story timeline, comparison of narrative order, assessment of chapter hooks and pacing curves, extraction of character arcs and transferable craft principles, or new story ideas that do not copy the original.
Install
npx skills add ciel-oliver/analyze-hit-novel
# pick agents (claude-code / codex / cursor / opencode / gemini-cli / openclaw)
npx skills add ciel-oliver/analyze-hit-novel -a claude-code -a codexDefault commands use the skills CLI and were not verified one by one; follow the repo README. Read SKILL.md before installing. Install guide →
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