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Arcanea Open Library
Write with AI. Keep the rights. Reach readers.
No editors, no queues, no gatekeepers.
Start in Community. Good books graduate. Canon is the house.
Auto-published. Free forever.
Ship via pull request. CI validates quality. Your book goes live within minutes. Community ratings surface the best.
Learn moreEditor-curated. Revenue share.
Graduated from Community. Guardian Intelligence ratings, editorial polish, and a 70/30 revenue split with subscribers.
Learn moreArcanea universe. Invitation.
The core mythology — Lumina, Nero, the Ten Gates, the Arc. Written under the house voice. By invitation.
Learn moreFive steps from empty directory to live book page.
Claude Code is the editor. The Arcanea author skill teaches it how to build a book.
Download Claude Code from claude.com/download, then install the author skill.
npx arcanea install arcanea-authorEvery book is a PR. Start by forking the Arcanea monorepo and cloning it locally.
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/arcanea-ai-app.gitOpen Claude Code inside your fork, invoke /arcanea-author, and describe the book you want to write. The skill generates manifest, chapters, outline, characters, and worldbuilding.
/arcanea-authorYour book lives at book/your-slug/. Iterate in the editor, in Claude Code, or both.
Branch named after your slug. Commit your folder. Push. Open a PR using the book contribution template.
git checkout -b book/your-slug
git add book/your-slug/
git commit -m "book(your-slug): initial draft"
git push origin book/your-slugSchema validation. 500-word minimum per chapter. Anti-slop scan. If it passes, your book auto-merges to the Community tier and goes live at arcanea.ai/books/drafts/your-slug within minutes.
What the gate checks
Optional shortcut
Skip the boilerplate. Fill out the form; download a ready-to-commit folder.
Fill in the essentials and we will generate a valid book.yaml plus a ready-to-commit folder structure.
Everything readers and writers ask before their first PR.
Docs, examples, and places to ask for help.
Every great book on Arcanea started as an empty folder and a decision. The hard part is choosing. The rest is five commands.