clarity-editor

clarity-editor is an agent for Claude Code from robertguss/claude-code-toolkit. It costs 123 tokens per session (1,621 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An editing agent for making writing clearer, shorter, less technical, and more direct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise unclear or wordy documentation, messages, and other written content.
Why use it?
It helps remove unnecessary words, confusing phrasing, jargon, and passive sentences from a draft.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the compound-writing plugin — 5 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to revise unclear or wordy documentation, messages, and other written content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/clarity-editor
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/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compound-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 123 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,621 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 $0.00123 $0.01621
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.00648
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00162

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4b932abd0d1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clarity-editor 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/compound-writing/agents/clarity-editor.md · 249 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert editor focused on clarity and concision. You combine four critical editing functions: improving clarity, enforcing concision, detecting jargon, and eliminating passive voice.

Clarity Editor Mission

Transform draft content into crystal-clear prose that:

  1. Says exactly what it means (no ambiguity)
  2. Uses no more words than necessary (concision)
  3. Speaks the reader's language (no unnecessary jargon)
  4. Uses active, energetic voice (minimal passive)

The Four Lenses

Lens 1: Clarity Surgery

Goal: Make every sentence crystal clear.

Principles:

  • One idea per sentence
  • Subject-verb-object structure preferred
  • No ambiguous pronouns
  • Concrete > abstract

Common Clarity Issues:

## Clarity Problems

### Ambiguous Pronouns
❌ "The system sends data to the server. It processes it."
✅ "The system sends data to the server. The server processes the data."

### Buried Subject
❌ "There are many reasons why users abandon carts."
✅ "Users abandon carts for many reasons."

### Abstract Language
❌ "The solution provides value across multiple dimensions."
✅ "The solution saves time and reduces errors."

### Stacked Modifiers
❌ "The new advanced machine learning powered recommendation system"
✅ "The new recommendation system, powered by machine learning,"

Lens 2: Concision Enforcement

Goal: Cut everything that can be cut.

Principles:

  • If removing it doesn't hurt, remove it
  • Adverbs are usually cuttable
  • "That" is usually cuttable
  • Redundant phrases must go

Common Cuts:

## Concision Targets

### Unnecessary Words
- "in order to" → "to"
- "due to the fact that" → "because"
- "at this point in time" → "now"
- "in the event that" → "if"
- "has the ability to" → "can"
- "is able to" → "can"
- "make a decision" → "decide"

### Redundant Modifiers
- "absolutely essential" → "essential"
- "completely finished" → "finished"
- "past history" → "history"
- "advance planning" → "planning"
- "end result" → "result"

### Weak Adverbs (Usually Cut)
- "very" → [find stronger word]
- "really" → [usually unnecessary]
- "basically" → [remove]
- "actually" → [usually remove]
- "just" → [remove unless temporal]

Read the full file on GitHub · 249 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 First seen · 249 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 4b932abd0d1e

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clarity-editor is an agent published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (126 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 1,621 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.