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Autonomous novel-writing pipeline built on Hermes. Generates long-form manuscripts (100k+ words) end-to-end using the agent loop.
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An autonomous pipeline for writing, revising, typesetting, illustrating, and narrating a complete novel. From a seed concept to a print-ready PDF, ePub, audiobook, and landing page — all generated by AI agents.
Inspired by karpathy/autoresearch: the same modify-evaluate-keep/discard loop, applied to fiction.
First novel produced: The Second Son of the House of Bells — 19 chapters, 79,456 words. See the autonovel/bells branch.
autonovelQuick StartClone and setupInstall dependenciesGenerate a seed concept (or write your own in seed.txt)Run the full pipelineThe PipelinePhase 1: Foundation
- Mechanical (evaluate.py, no LLM): regex scans for banned words,
- LLM Judge (evaluate.py, separate model): scores prose quality,
- Foundation: World bible, 8 characters, 24-chapter outline, voice discovery
- Drafting: 24 chapters, 75,698 words, sequential with evaluation
- Revision: 6 automated cycles + 6 Opus review rounds
- Structural: 24 → 19 chapters through 4 merges
- Art: Linocut cover (Nano Banana 2), 19 woodcut chapter ornaments (vectorized)
- Audiobook: 19 chapters parsed into 4,179 speaker-attributed segments