writing-style

writing-style is an agent for coding agents from landing-ai/ade-cli. It costs 0 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of writing rules for text shown to users or coding agents, including help text, documentation, README files, and skill instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing project documentation, command-line help, error messages, status messages, README files, or `SKILL.md` files.
Why use it?
It removes unclear, promotional, or inconsistent wording and makes commands, paths, flags, and code examples easier to understand and use.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/landing-ai/ade-cli/writing-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/landing-ai/ade-cli

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for writing-style

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/landing-ai/ade-cli/writing-style.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/landing-ai/ade-cli/writing-style)
Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00041

Measured 4d ago against content hash a0ce09c3f494, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-style scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/agents/writing-style.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Writing style

Standards for every string a user or an agent reads: help text and docstrings (which become ade help and the hosted CLI reference), the README, and SKILL.md.

Prose standards

  • Second person ("you"), active voice, direct language.
  • No promotional language. Describe what a thing does.
  • No idioms. Plain wording wins.
  • Cite what a reader outside this repo can open: public docs, ade help topics, and shipped flags.
  • Leave out issue numbers (enforced), internal URLs, and anything that resolves only inside LandingAI.
  • Test every code example before it lands. Fence README and SKILL.md code blocks with a language tag.
  • Error and status messages state what happened and what to do next.

Inline code is always backticked (enforced)

Wrap flags (--api-key), commands (ade update), paths (~/.ade/credentials.json), environment variables (ADE_ENV), and literal values (priority) in backticks wherever they appear in prose.

Why: the hosted docs generate the CLI reference from help --json and render a bare --flag as an em dash plus the flag name; agents need unambiguous literal boundaries; and terminal output prints backticks literally, which is already this CLI's voice.

tests/test_help_style.py enforces the flag and environment-variable rules across the help surface's prose fields. Write env vars as a backticked bare name (ADE_ENV, not $ADE_ENV). Pre-formatted blocks are exempt: topic bodies and usage lines are terminal layouts and copy-pasteable commands, so leave them bare.

Relationship to the docs repo

The docs repo (landing-ai/docs) has stricter rules for hosted pages. This file governs text that lives in this repo; the docs repo's generator is the compatibility layer between the two.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a0ce09c3f494

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-style is an agent published in the GitHub repository landing-ai/ade-cli (2,410 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 407 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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