ECC is a toolkit that organizes and improves how coding agents work through skills, memory, security checks, research practices, and related extensions. It is for developers using agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.
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.
npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill article-writinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECCWrote 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/skills/affaan-m/ecc/article-writing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/affaan-m/ecc/article-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/affaan-m/ecc/article-writing/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/skills/affaan-m/ecc/article-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/affaan-m/ecc/article-writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00057 | $0.00609 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00244 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00122 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
article-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 27d 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- article-writing — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
- article-writing — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
- article-writing — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
- article-writing — 100% identical, 1 lines differ
- article-writing — 95% identical, 2 lines differ
- article-writing — 94% identical, 3 lines differ
- article-writing — 94% identical, 3 lines differ
- article-writing — 94% identical, 2 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Article Writing
Write long-form content that sounds like an actual person with a point of view, not an LLM smoothing itself into paste.
When to Activate
- drafting blog posts, essays, launch posts, guides, tutorials, or newsletter issues
- turning notes, transcripts, or research into polished articles
- matching an existing founder, operator, or brand voice from examples
- tightening structure, pacing, and evidence in already-written long-form copy
Core Rules
- Lead with the concrete thing: artifact, example, output, anecdote, number, screenshot, or code.
- Explain after the example, not before.
- Keep sentences tight unless the source voice is intentionally expansive.
- Use proof instead of adjectives.
- Never invent facts, credibility, or customer evidence.
Voice Handling
If the user wants a specific voice, run brand-voice first and reuse its VOICE PROFILE.
Do not duplicate a second style-analysis pass here unless the user explicitly asks for one.
If no voice references are given, default to a sharp operator voice: concrete, unsentimental, useful.
Banned Patterns
Delete and rewrite any of these:
- "In today's rapidly evolving landscape"
- "game-changer", "cutting-edge", "revolutionary"
- "here's why this matters" as a standalone bridge
- fake vulnerability arcs
- a closing question added only to juice engagement
- biography padding that does not move the argument
- generic AI throat-clearing that delays the point
Writing Process
- Clarify the audience and purpose.
- Build a hard outline with one job per section.
- Start sections with proof, artifact, conflict, or example.
- Expand only where the next sentence earns space.
- Cut anything that sounds templated, overexplained, or self-congratulatory.
Structure Guidance
Technical Guides
- open with what the reader gets
- use code, commands, screenshots, or concrete output in major sections
- end with actionable takeaways, not a soft recap
Essays / Opinion
- start with tension, contradiction, or a specific observation
- keep one argument thread per section
- make opinions answer to evidence
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.
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.
- 27d ago Changed · +1 lines 6305169f1aaf
- 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A fc1d006cfa9b
article-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository affaan-m/ECC (280,368 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 609 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.
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