ralphy: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/good-writing/SKILL.md

good-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alecs5am/ralphy. It costs 208 tokens per session (2,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of practical rules for writing clear, natural text. It covers organization, readability, and common patterns that make writing sound machine-made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or editing scripts, captions, search-optimized articles, social posts, documentation, or other prose.
Why use it?
It helps remove unnecessary words, repetition, confusing structure, and stiff wording from drafts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is alecs5am/ralphy's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on ralphy itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ralphy configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to alecs5am/ralphy. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alecs5am/ralphy/main/.agents/skills/good-writing/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alecs5am/ralphy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 208 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,004 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 $0.00208 $0.02004
Opus 5 $0.00104 $0.01002
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00200

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4801356f5736, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

good-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 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.

.agents/skills/good-writing/SKILL.md · 172 lines

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.

Good writing rules

Ported (translated + condensed) from the Russian-language good-writing skill in mikeshu2001/content-factory. The original is the source of truth for Russian-specific grammar rules; this port keeps every transferable rule in English. Attribution: mikeshu2001. The original files are not vendored verbatim because this repo is English-only on disk (docs/developing-ralphy.md).

How to use this skill

This is not a list of bans to tick off. It is a toolset for moments of doubt. The goal: text should explain the way a person explains to a colleague over coffee. Not like a manual, not like marketing, not like an academic paper.

Before editing anything, ask:

  • What does this phrase carry for the reader? If nothing — delete it. If it duplicates what was already said — delete it.
  • What role does a construction play before you remove it by rule? A formally "banned" construction often holds an important nuance. Understand why it is there first, then decide.
  • Does the majority of readers need this fact? A detail useful to 5% of the audience that does not help the rest understand — cut.
  • The main test after ANY edit: read the paragraph aloud and ask "would a native speaker say this to a colleague?" If not, the edit is bad even if it is rule-correct. Rewrite the sentence whole; do not patch one word.
  • Symptom vs cause. Filler in one phrase usually means the whole paragraph is overloaded. Clean the paragraph, not the sentence. A "not X but Y" contrast usually means you have not found the affirmative form — find it.
  • Judge the block, not the sentence. After any edit re-read the whole block. If the edit did not improve the block as a whole, it did not happen.

If a construction is allowed by the rules but sounds clumsy — rewrite it. If it is banned but sounds natural and precise — keep it. Rules are for doubt, not a final judge.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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. 8d ago First seen · 172 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A 4801356f5736

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good-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository alecs5am/ralphy (132 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 208 tokens to every session and 2,004 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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