writing-voice

writing-voice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 98ping/chip. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fictional example of a writing-style guide for an AI coding assistant. It shows how to describe rules for imitating an author's style using sample writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Learning how to build a writing-voice skill from real samples. It should not be used to draft real work in the fictional voice.
Why use it?
It is a template rather than a ready-to-use guide for a real author, so it helps explain the structure without claiming to provide a genuine voice.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Learning how to build a writing-voice skill from real samples. It should not be used to draft real work in the fictional voice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/98ping/chip/writing-voice
View source ↗ 98ping/chip
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 98ping/chip --skill writing-voice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/98ping/chip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,403 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 $0.00077 $0.01403
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00561
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00140

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 497a31557529, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-voice 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.

examples/skills/writing-voice/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Example Writing Voice (fictional, this is a template)

This skill analyzes the made-up author of examples/writing-samples/. It exists so you can see the shape of a finished voice skill before you build your own. Do not draft real work in this voice. To make your own: drop your essays in writing-samples/, copy this file to .claude/skills/writing-voice/SKILL.md, and tell Claude "rebuild this voice skill from my real samples."


0. Hard guardrails (always apply, no exceptions)

These override everything else in this sheet. Every draft must follow them, every time:

  1. NO EM DASHES. Ever. Never use the "—" character (or "--" as a stand-in) to join or interrupt a sentence. Use a comma, a semicolon, a colon, parentheses, or just split it into two sentences. For number ranges, write "20 to 35%" or "20-35%" with a plain hyphen.
  2. NO MARKDOWN in the output. Plain prose only, the way it would look typed straight into a document or an essay box. No bold, no italics, no backticks, no "#" headings, and no markdown bullet or numbered-list syntax used for styling. Get emphasis from word choice and sentence structure, not symbols.

Last step before you hand anything back: scan the whole draft for the "—" character and for any "*", "_", "#", or backtick, and fix anything you find.


1. Snapshot

This writer is a friendly skeptic. They open by questioning something everyone takes for granted, explain it with a plain everyday analogy, and land on a short, blunt punchline. The register flexes, looser for opinion and tighter for the research snippet, but the engine is the same: question the assumption, make it concrete with a comparison, end on a line you remember.

2. Core voice principles

  1. Open by questioning the default. Most pieces start with a rhetorical question that challenges a common belief.

    "Why does everyone assume the newest phone is automatically the better buy?" "What actually happens to a memory while you sleep?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 497a31557529

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writing-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository 98ping/chip (1 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,403 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.