write-rfc

A template for writing technical proposals that explain the problem, options, chosen design, risks, and rollout steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a proposed change, compare alternatives, plan deployment, and define how the result will be checked.
Why use it?
It makes design decisions easier to review and reduces plans based on hidden assumptions or unclear next steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/write-rfc
Any agent
npx skills add 1024XEngineer/bytemind --skill write-rfc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/1024XEngineer/bytemind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 126 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 $0.00016 $0.00126
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00013

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4c5612bef431, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-rfc 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 2d 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.

internal/skills/write-rfc/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

write-rfc

Required Sections

  1. Context and Problem
  2. Goals and Non-Goals
  3. Candidate Options
  4. Trade-offs
  5. Proposed Design
  6. Rollout Plan
  7. Verification Plan
  8. Risks and Mitigations

Rules

  • Mark assumptions explicitly.
  • Keep risks testable and concrete.
  • Ensure conclusions map to executable next steps.
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 26 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 4c5612bef431

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-rfc is a skill published in the GitHub repository 1024XEngineer/bytemind (43 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 126 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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