Routing Chinese Web Fiction Through Ten Specialist Prompts

What it does Chinese-WebNovel-Skill is a modular Codex skill for generating Chinese web fiction. Instead of one bloated prompt juggling premise design, dialogue, transitions, and proofreading, it keeps a thin SKILL.md router that delegates to ten focused modules—like plot_logic, dialogue, and anti_ai_voice—each with their own tutorials, runtime rules, and curated good and bad examples. A local corpus of novel excerpts and a search index sit underneath so the model can borrow structure from existing fiction before generating its own.

The interesting bit The architecture works like a staged pipeline: upstream modules handle concept planning and openings, downstream ones manage chapter endings and consistency review, and a final consistency_review gate checks every chapter before it ships. The author explicitly warns against letting a giant prompt grow dull by multitasking; the skill even includes an anti_ai_voice module whose sole job is scrubbing out the empty summarizations and manual-style dialogue that give away machine-written prose.

Key highlights

• Ten specialized modules covering the full chain from concept_planning to consistency_review, each organized with tutorial.md, runtime.md, and paired positive and negative examples.
• A three-layer supply chain: the main router decides the problem, the module diagnoses and repairs it, and the local corpus (data/articles/, analysis/excerpts.csv) provides structural templates via a Python search script.
• Deliberate sequencing: causal logic and character consistency run before scene transitions and dialogue, while style cleanup (anti_ai_voice) waits until the structure is sound.
• A maintenance rule that forbids stuffing new details back into the main SKILL.md; growth happens by adding modules, not by inflating the master prompt.

Verdict Worth a look if you are building complex, multi-stage LLM workflows and need a worked example of prompt decomposition; skip it if you are hunting for a finished novel generator or a dataset of Chinese fiction.