Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to veigap/talksmith. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/veigap/talksmith/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/veigap/talksmithWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/veigap/talksmith/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/veigap/talksmith/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/veigap/talksmith/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/veigap/talksmith/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/veigap/talksmith/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.07950 | $0.07950 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03180 | $0.03180 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01590 | $0.01590 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00795 | $0.00795 |
Grade A, and why
talksmith CLAUDE.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 8d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Talksmith — plugin development notes
This file is the project-instruction file for plugin authors and contributors working in this repo. It is loaded by Claude Code only when a session is opened at the root of this repo to develop the plugin. End users never see it.
Two unrelated
CLAUDE.mdfiles — don't confuse them.
- This file (
/Users/.../talksmith/CLAUDE.md) is the plugin source repo's dev notes. It exists only here.- A user's
CLAUDE.mdis a per-directory stub that activates Talksmith for one subject working directory. It is created by/talksmith:initfromtalksmith-orch.md, lives in the user's cwd, and is completely separate from this file.Installing the plugin (
/plugin install talksmith@talksmith) is a one-time, machine-wide action — it does not create anyCLAUDE.mdanywhere. Initializing Talksmith for a working directory (/talksmith:init) is a separate, per-directory action that writes the stub. A user can install the plugin once and then run/talksmith:initin many different directories.
For the user-facing project overview, see README.md. For the full Presenter Agent operating spec (eight subagents, eight steps, schemas, interaction defaults), see orchestrator.md — that file stays in the plugin install and is auto-imported at session start by the thin talksmith-orch.md stub that /talksmith:init writes into a user's subject working directory.
What this repo is
The Talksmith Claude Code plugin. Installable surface:
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
.claude-plugin/plugin.json |
Plugin manifest (name, version, description). |
agents/ |
Ten Claude Code subagents — librarian, composer, editor, diagram-illustrator, diagram-animator, image-illustrator, diagram-critic, animation-critic, slide-classifier-critic, global-librarian. Each has YAML frontmatter (name:, description:) so it can be dispatched by name. diagram-illustrator and image-illustrator are Step-6 siblings: the former renders authored ASCII → SVG (diagrams); the latter generates atmospheric aside imagery from <!-- generate-image: … --> directives (tool-agnostic, degrades when no image capability is present). diagram-critic is the odd one out: it is dispatched by the diagram-illustrator coordinator itself — a critic wave between its render and revision waves, since subagents cannot launch subagents — rather than by the orchestrator, and its tools: Read restriction is load-bearing — it reviews a rendered diagram from its PNG alone and never receives the SVG path. That blindness is the point (see its own file). slide-classifier-critic is its twin one artifact earlier: dispatched by the md-to-deck skill (not the orchestrator) once per content slide between FILL and RENDER, it re-runs the catalog's discriminator walk on one slide's source and confirms or overturns the template the fill chose. Its tools: Read restriction is load-bearing for the same reason — it is blind to every other slide's classification, because a critic that can see the deck is concept-breakdown twenty times reads the twenty-first as normal. |
commands/ |
Slash commands. Currently one: /talksmith:init. |
skills/ |
Ten skills, all namespaced talksmith:<skill> in their SKILL.md frontmatter (the namespace is the convention — an un-namespaced name: collides with a user's own same-named skill instead of coexisting with it): ingest (web capture), ascii-to-svg (one ASCII block → one static SVG; owns the viewBox and rasterizer contracts), animate-svg (evolves a finished diagram SVG into its animated version — model-authored, honouring the practices in its PRACTICES.md), polish-ascii (Step-6 mechanical scan / sidecar / stamp / cleanup for diagrams — stamp-renders arms render idempotency), polish-images (its sibling — the same staged scan / sidecar / stamp / cleanup for <!-- generate-image: … --> aside directives) and generate-image (tool-agnostic backend the image-illustrator dispatches; produces a raster or returns unavailable, never blocks), feedback-cycle (Step-5 bookkeeping CLI), and md-to-deck (Step-7 render plus the PDF and .pptx exports measured from it). Every skill keeps its code in skills/<skill>/scripts/ (md-to-deck's audits in scripts/audits/) and its non-code assets beside SKILL.md (templates/, vendor/, icons/, examples/) — so a script reaches its skill's assets one level up. Shared code lives once under skills/_shared/, sys.path-imported by its consumers: _context.py (the slide-context scanner — both polish skills), _plan.py (the plan-file envelope, --final/--plan/--dry-run, and the gc live set with its recoverable images/.trash/ move — both polish skills, which are otherwise near-twins), and _write.py (the atomic in-place write every skill that edits draft.md/final.md must use — currently feedback-cycle). The model-reading audits share skills/md-to-deck/scripts/audits/_model.py (the _-key-excluding model walk). Two more are anti-slop passes the Editor applies to a Talk's prose, one per language: stop-slop (English, vendored from Hardik Pandya) and desrobotizar (Spanish) — both are explicit-invocation only, so neither fires on ordinary drafting or editing; the dispatch table lives in agents/editor.md. No skill requires Cowork. Everything else lives in each SKILL.md — don't restate it here. |
schemas/ |
File-format specs (canonical empty forms for draft.md, memory.md, profile.md, principles.md, learnings.md, feedback-backlog.md, feedback-processed.md, corpus-record.md, talksmith-bugs.md), plus slide-model.md — the structured slide-model.json the md-to-deck skill fills (LLM) and the renderers consume. |
config/principles.md, config/diagram-style.md, config/pptx-styles/ |
Bundled read-only design assets. |
talksmith-orch.md |
The thin working-directory stub copied to CLAUDE.md in the user's cwd by /talksmith:init. Tells the agent to load the full spec from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/orchestrator.md at session start. Edit only when the session-start contract changes (new mandatory load, new directive) — and warn users to re-run /talksmith:init when you do. |
talksmith-agents.md |
The Codex working-directory stub copied to AGENTS.md in the user's cwd by /talksmith:init. A thin pointer to CLAUDE.md (which owns the boot instructions) that re-states the two Claude-Code-specific fallbacks a non-Claude-Code agent needs — the @-import is inert, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is unset. Carries no independent workflow content, so it never drifts from CLAUDE.md. Edit only when those fallbacks change; re-init to redeploy. |
orchestrator.md |
The full Presenter Agent operating spec — workflow Steps 0 → 8, role dispatch, schemas, interaction defaults. Stays in the plugin install; never copied. Edit freely when you change workflow, role contracts, or step-by-step behavior — plugin updates roll out automatically and existing user working directories pick up the change on their next session reload, without re-init. |
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.
- 8d ago Changed · +2 lines · +427 tokens per session b969f0bd2b22
- 20d ago Changed · +39 tokens per session 561f81d62ca2
- 1mo ago Changed · +8 tokens per session fb8600fc82a4
- 2mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +535 tokens per session cc5db40b2914
- 2mo ago First seen · 161 lines · 6,941 tokens per session scan A d4ff43587f9f
talksmith CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository veigap/talksmith (11 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7,950 tokens to every session, about $0.0318 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.
talksmith CLAUDE.md compared with instructions from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| talksmith CLAUDE.mdveigap/talksmith | Instructions file | 11 | 7d ago | MIT | A | 7,950 | Claude Code |
| vscode buildNext.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 9,719 | GitHub Copilot |
| next.js AGENTS.mdvercel/next.js | Instructions file | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 7,461 | Codex, OpenCode |
| langchain AGENTS.mdlangchain-ai/langchain | Instructions file | 149k | yesterday | MIT | A | 4,680 | Codex, OpenCode |
| vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 5,516 | GitHub Copilot |
| vscode copilot-instructions.mdmicrosoft/vscode | Instructions file | 195k | yesterday | MIT | A | 3,093 | GitHub Copilot |
| deepseek-harness AGENTS.mddeepseek-ai/deepseek-harness | Instructions file | 274k | 2d ago | MIT | A | 4,313 | Codex, OpenCode |