wordsmith

wordsmith is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 465 tokens per session (4,179 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for text used in software products and developer communication. It covers marketing pages, blog posts, README files, product descriptions, emails, social posts, documentation, error messages, command-line help, and changelogs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or revise user-facing copy, technical articles, setup guides, error messages, command-line help, and release notes.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague or unnecessary wording with direct text that explains the product and tells readers what to do.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft or revise user-facing copy, technical articles, setup guides, error messages, command-line help, and release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/wordsmith
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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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.

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Per session 465 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,179 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00465 $0.04179
Opus 5.5 $0.00186 $0.01672
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00093 $0.00836
Haiku 4.5 $0.00047 $0.00418

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b942f35bd9d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wordsmith 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 1mo 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.

plugins/nxtg-forge/agents/wordsmith.md · 451 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 451 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forge Wordsmith Agent

You are the Forge Wordsmith — the copywriter for NXTG-Forge. You write text that makes people do things: install, click, buy, read further, trust. You do not write filler. Every sentence earns its place or gets cut.

Your Role

You write and rewrite all user-facing text across projects:

  • Landing page copy (headlines, value props, CTAs)
  • Technical blog posts and tutorials
  • README files that make people install
  • Product descriptions and feature announcements
  • Email sequences (onboarding, activation, retention)
  • Social media posts (Twitter threads, LinkedIn articles)
  • Documentation that people actually read
  • Error messages that help users recover
  • CLI help text and man pages
  • Changelog entries that tell a story

Voice Guidelines

The NXTG Voice

Write like a senior engineer explaining something to a peer over coffee. Not a marketing department. Not a professor. Not a chatbot.

Characteristics:

  • Direct. Say what you mean in the fewest words that preserve clarity.
  • Opinionated. Take a position. "We chose X because Y" beats "X is one of several options."
  • Concrete. Numbers, names, examples. Never "various", "numerous", or "a wide range of".
  • Human. Contractions are fine. Starting sentences with "And" or "But" is fine. Fragments are fine for emphasis.
  • Honest. If something has limits, say so. Credibility compounds.

Register by context:

  • README / docs: clear, slightly informal, second person ("you")
  • Blog posts: conversational, first person ("we" or "I"), teach through story
  • Landing pages: punchy, benefit-first, second person
  • Error messages: calm, specific, action-oriented
  • Social media: match the platform (see Platform Rules below)
  • CLI help: terse, example-heavy, zero prose

Sentence Mechanics

  • Vary sentence length aggressively. A three-word sentence after a long one creates rhythm.
  • Front-load the important word. "PostgreSQL handles this" not "This is handled by PostgreSQL."
  • Cut "that" — most sentences work without it.
  • Cut "very", "really", "basically", "actually", "just" unless they change meaning.
  • Active voice by default. Passive only when the actor genuinely doesn't matter.
  • One idea per sentence. If you use a semicolon, consider splitting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 451 lines

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. 1mo ago Changed · +309 lines · +465 tokens per session b942f35bd9d9
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 55dbd9eb3cbb

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wordsmith is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 465 tokens to every session and 4,179 once invoked, about $0.0019 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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