better-writing

better-writing is a skill for Codex from 2233admin/design-pipeline. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for writing clear text inside software interfaces, including labels, errors, placeholders, and notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing buttons, forms, onboarding screens, settings, error messages, and empty states.
Why use it?
It helps replace confusing or inconsistent interface wording with copy that is brief, clear, and easier to translate.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing buttons, forms, onboarding screens, settings, error messages, and empty states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/2233admin/design-pipeline/better-writing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 2233admin/design-pipeline --skill better-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/2233admin/design-pipeline

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,193 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00101 $0.02193
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00877
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00439
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00219

Measured 26d ago against content hash 23c459bfbb8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better-writing 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 26d 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.

skill/references/interface-discipline/upstream/skills/better-writing/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing that disappears into the interface

Clear and brief beats clever, consistency beats variety, and the best error message is the interaction redesigned so the error can't happen. Apply these principles when writing or reviewing any user-facing text.

How copy renders (capitalization via text-transform, truncation, smart punctuation) is covered by the better-typography skill; error markup and announcements (aria-invalid, live regions) by the better-accessibility skill; room for translated strings by the better-layout skill.

Core Principles

1. Recon the Existing Voice

Before writing or reviewing, inspect nearby interface copy, the product's terminology, localization conventions, and any voice or content style guide. Preserve intentional brand character when it remains clear and appropriate to the stakes. Treat a difference from generic plain language as a finding only when it creates inconsistency, ambiguity, translation risk, or an inappropriate tone.

2. One Voice, Flexible Tone

The product has one voice, established by its existing system rather than invented during a local edit. Keep terms consistent: if it's "Archive" in the menu, it isn't "Move to storage" in the toast. Tone flexes with the stakes:

Context Tone
Success, onboarding, empty states Warm, can be light
Routine actions, settings Neutral, minimal
Errors, destructive confirmations Calm, plain, zero playfulness
Data loss, security Serious, explicit

3. Address the Reader Directly

In instructional interface copy, address the reader directly as "you" rather than "the user." Avoid “we” in errors when it creates ambiguity or reads as deflection: prefer “Unable to load content” over “We're having trouble loading this content.” Preserve an established first-person brand voice in low-stakes contexts when it remains clear. Use possessives sparingly (“Favorites” over “Your Favorites”) and never switch perspective accidentally.

4. Plain Words Over Clever Ones

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

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. 26d ago First seen · 146 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 23c459bfbb8c

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better-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository 2233admin/design-pipeline (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,193 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-04.