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Novel Architect v3.0.0
Novel Architect v3.0.0
Novel Architect is now public as an open-source agent skill for long-form Chinese serial web-novel workflows.
This release packages the current v3.0.0 skill runtime, documentation, open-source metadata, and release-ready repository structure. It is designed for agent-assisted workflows where the agent plans, writes, reviews, repairs, and continues long-form fiction with review gates, deterministic state guards, and quality signals.
Highlights
- Agent skill for Chinese commercial serial web-novel production.
- Main chapter loop:
PREPARE -> WRITE -> REVIEW -> COMMIT. - Hybrid workflow: agent literary judgment plus deterministic Python state guards.
- Market Pack for opening a new book with platform, audience, selling points, title/intro direction, and first-ten-chapter retention planning.
- First 3 Gate to block normal chapter 4+ production until the opening passes dedicated review.
- Beat Competition to compare chapter directions before drafting.
- Writing Task packaging with context, character voice, visible payoff, enemy loss, turn-page pull, forbidden moves, and output rules.
- 12 quality signals covering anti-AI texture, reader pull, visible payoff, character voice, domain translation, state guard, continuity, and related risks.
- Strictest signal merge: model
passcannot override heuristicwarnorfail. - Reader Promise Ledger for tracking hooks, promises, payoff, overdue threads, and continuity pressure.
- Feedback Loop for diagnosing reader/platform feedback after publication.
Production Validation
Novel Architect v3.0.0 was hardened through real long-form production.
- Completed production run: 重生2021,开局百亿做空 on Fanqie.
- The first production run covered a 140-chapter local creative artifact set.
- v3.0.0 is now being used for a second production project,
全城短剧成真,我专改必死剧本.
See Production Validation for public-safe case-study notes.
What Is Included
- English
README.mdand Simplified ChineseREADME.zh-CN.md. - Apache-2.0 license.
- Contributor, security, code-of-conduct, changelog, issue templates, PR template, and CI setup.
- User docs, developer docs, reference docs, production validation notes, and marketplace listing draft.
- Prompt pack moved to
docs/prompt-packs/longform-writing-v1/. - Release bundle boundary kept to
skill/novel-architect/.
Installation
Download the release artifact:
novel-architect-skill-v3.0.0.zip
Unzip it and place the novel-architect/ skill directory in a skill location supported by your agent tool.
Common locations:
~/.agents/skills/novel-architect/
~/.claude/skills/novel-architect/
~/.config/opencode/skills/novel-architect/
Tool paths can change across versions. Use your tool's current skill configuration as the source of truth.
Build From Source
git clone https://github.com/zhougz520/novel-architect.git
cd novel-architect
uv sync --group dev
uv run python -m novel_architect --version
bash scripts/release.shThe release bundle is created at:
dist/novel-architect-skill-v3.0.0.zip
Verification
This release was checked with:
uv sync --group dev --locked
uv run python -m novel_architect --version
uv run python -m novel_architect --help
bash scripts/format.sh
bash scripts/lint.sh
bash scripts/test.sh
uv run python -m compileall -q skill/novel-architect/src tests
uv run python tools/final_merge_probe.py .
bash scripts/release.shTest result:
657 passed, 3 skipped
The release bundle contains only the novel-architect/ skill runtime files and includes novel-architect/LICENSE.
Limitations
- Novel Architect does not guarantee publication, signing, revenue, ranking, reader growth, or platform approval.
- It is optimized for Chinese commercial serial web-novel workflows, not general-purpose prose, poetry, or short experimental fiction.
- It expects a capable agent that can read skill instructions and run local CLI commands.
- Literary judgment still belongs to the agent and maintainer; the Python layer enforces structure, gates, hashes, state checks, and merge rules.
- The project must not be used to copy an existing book or imitate a living author's exact style.
Links
- README: https://github.com/zhougz520/novel-architect#readme
- 中文 README: https://github.com/zhougz520/novel-architect/blob/master/README.zh-CN.md
- Documentation: https://github.com/zhougz520/novel-architect/blob/master/docs/README.md
- Production Validation: https://github.com/zhougz520/novel-architect/blob/master/docs/case-studies/production-validation.md
- Skill Listing Draft: https://github.com/zhougz520/novel-architect/blob/master/docs/marketplace/skill-listing.md
中文摘要
Novel Architect v3.0.0 是面向中文商业连载网文的 Agent Skill,支持开书、章节策划、正文写作、质量审校、门禁检查、修稿闭环、状态维护和读者反馈诊断。
本版本已经通过一部 140 章完结小说的真实生产流程验证,并在完结后根据实际问题加固到 v3.0.0。