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AGENTS.md

writing-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from surendranb/writing-skills. It costs 513 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for a collection of writing skills stored as Markdown files. The skills define writing frameworks and voices, and automated checks enforce their required structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when creating, editing, validating, or packaging writing skills and their plugin files.
Why use it?
They make each writing skill consistent, testable, and easy for both people and coding agents to use or maintain.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is surendranb/writing-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on writing-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything writing-skills configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to surendranb/writing-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/surendranb/writing-skills/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surendranb/writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Fable 5.1 $0.00513 $0.00513
Opus 5 $0.00257 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00103 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00051 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash 61051ebacdfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-skills AGENTS.md 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.

AGENTS.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md — writing-skills

Repo map and contracts for agents working in this repository.

What this is

16 writing-style skills as SKILL.md files: 9 frameworks (measurable standards with hard checks) and 7 voices (character registers with mechanical rules). Pure text — this repo contains skills and their packaging, nothing else.

Layout

skills/<name>/SKILL.md      one skill per folder; frontmatter name == folder name
.claude-plugin/             Claude Code marketplace + plugin manifests
plugin.json                 Agent Plugins 1.0 manifest (Codex, Kiro, ...)
package.json / pyproject.toml   npm / PyPI packaging (plugin.json + skills/ only)
template/SKILL.md           skeleton for new skills
scripts/validate_skills.py  the CI gate — run it before any commit

The skill anatomy contract (enforced by CI)

  1. Frontmatter: name matching the folder; description >= 80 chars containing "Use when" with concrete trigger phrases.
  2. ## The core rule — one bolded sentence that IS the skill, plus a workflow line.
  3. ## Mechanics — numbered, each one verifiable (a cap, a ban list, a ratio).
  4. ## Verify — the checklist an agent must pass before delivering.
  5. ## Do not — the anti-patterns.
  6. At least two before/after transform examples.
  7. Total length <= 120 lines.

Framework skills must cite the real standard and match it — verify rules against the source, not memory. Fidelity errors are bugs.

Working here

  • Validate after any change: python3 scripts/validate_skills.py
  • New skill: copy template/SKILL.md into skills/<name>/, fill it, add the path to .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, validate.
  • Keep this repo skills-only: no servers, no scripts beyond the validator, no config that runs anything on install.

Releases

Every skill addition or plugin improvement = a release: bump the version in plugin.json, .claude-plugin/plugin.json, .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (metadata.version), package.json, pyproject.toml (CI fails on mismatch); add a CHANGELOG entry; tag vX.Y.Z + GitHub release; npm publish manually.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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.

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writing-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository surendranb/writing-skills (31 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 513 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 per session on Opus 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.

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