# NousResearch/autonovel

An autonomous novel writing pipeline, by Hermes Agent

Repository: https://github.com/NousResearch/autonovel
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/autonovel
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-03-20T16:17:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 73, release rhythm 35, longevity 12
- inputs: {"age_days": 172, "days_push": 166, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1521, forks 289 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:57.868757+00:00)

## What it is
An autonomous AI agent pipeline that writes, revises, evaluates, typesets, illustrates, and narrates a complete novel from a seed concept. It produces print-ready PDFs, ePubs, audiobook scripts, and a landing page using a modify-evaluate-keep/discard loop across multiple LLM-driven phases.

## Use cases
- generate a complete novel with AI agents
- write and revise a book automatically from a seed idea
- produce an epub and audiobook from AI-written fiction
- run an automated drafting and revision loop for long-form fiction
- evaluate and score AI-generated chapters
- create a print-ready PDF book with AI-generated cover art

## When to choose
- you want an end-to-end autonomous pipeline from concept to finished book artifacts
- you want structured multi-phase drafting with automated evaluation and revision loops
- you want a proven example, having already produced a full 79k-word novel

## When to avoid
- you need a polished GUI writing tool rather than a Python CLI pipeline
- you cannot provide LLM API keys or want fully offline generation
- you need a permissively licensed dependency - the repo has no license, so reuse is legally restricted

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, llm-inference, prompt-engineering, workflow-automation, data-generation, templating, pdf, tts
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, media, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: creative-writing, novel-generation, multi-agent-pipeline, fiction, audiobook, epub, latex-typesetting, llm-agents, text-generation, ai-agents, natural-language-processing, automation

## Member repositories
- NousResearch/autonovel (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.868757+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:50.239658+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/NousResearch/autonovel (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:57.868757+00:00, sha 3f3a99e3fa94)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.