Delegating Writing and Review to Opus 4.6 with novel46

novel46 is a direct copy of the existing 32 novel skills, with exactly one change: the writing and review steps are handed off to a separate process — claude -p --model claude-opus-4-6 — rather than being run in Claude Code's parent session. The workflow, evaluation criteria, and output format are identical to the original novel skills.

Claude Code's built-in features provide no way to specify the model claude-opus-4-6 for the writing step. Launching a separate process from the command line is how this limitation is worked around.

Installation

Prerequisites

You must be a member of either "Nakeru AI" or "Nakeru AI Mirai-hen (tentative)".

Steps

1. Open the novel46 skill set page
2. After logging in, a command to install all 32 skills at once will be displayed (one for macOS/Linux, one for Windows)
3. Paste that command into your terminal and run it

The working folder ~/Dev/novelTeam/projects will also be created at this time.

One-time setup after installation

The skills are designed to git commit at each checkpoint, preserving a revision history of your manuscript. If the repository is not initialized, you will see fatal: not a git repository at the end of each skill run.

cd ~/Dev/novelTeam && git init

Relationship to the original novel skills

The project storage location ~/Dev/novelTeam/projects is shared with the original novel skills. You can mix /novel-write and /novel46-write on the same project.

One thing to be aware of: if you have both installed and uninstall one of them, the shared runtime components (server / rules / sns) will also be removed.

• What remains: project data (projects), credentials (authors), commit history (.git)
• If removed: reinstalling the other set will restore everything

Operation levels

Not all skills work under the same conditions. There are three levels.

Level 1: Works out of the box

Most skills — planning, review, revision, and others — are ready to use immediately after installation.

Level 2: After npm install

Local tools such as lint, writing assistance, manuscript PDF export, and the viewer require dependency packages to be installed first.

cd ~/Dev/novelTeam/server && npm install

Node.js 18 or higher is required. Some tools also use Python 3.

Level 3: After configuring credentials