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 alecs5am/ralphy --skill writing-beatsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alecs5am/ralphyWrote 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/alecs5am/ralphy/writing-beats)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alecs5am/ralphy/writing-beats"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alecs5am/ralphy/writing-beats/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/alecs5am/ralphy/writing-beats"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alecs5am/ralphy/writing-beats.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00078 | $0.00615 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00308 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00123 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
writing-beats 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 5d 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.
This is a copy
95% identical to writing-beats — 37 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Writing Beats
The user has passed (or will pass) a markdown file of raw material.
If the user did not say where to save the article, ask once and remember the path.
Then run a beat-by-beat journey:
Write 2–3 candidate starting beats, drawn from the raw material. Each is a different entry point into the article. Show the user the beats before writing it to the article file. The user picks one. Preview what beats that might lead to once written - as if the user is seeing a little way down the path. Once the user picks a starting beat, write only that beat to the article file. A beat may be one sentence or several paragraphs — whatever that beat naturally is. Stop there. Re-read the article file from disk. Then offer 2–3 candidate next beats — different directions the journey could pivot to from where the article now stands. Loop steps 2–4 until the article reaches a natural end. What is a beat A beat is one move in the journey. It does one thing — sets a scene, lands a point, asks a question, drops an aside, twists the angle. Then it stops, leaving the reader at a place where the next beat can pivot.
A beat is sized by what it needs:
- A single sentence if that's all the move is ("And then nothing happened for three weeks.").
- A short paragraph if the move needs setup.
- Multiple paragraphs if the beat is a self-contained vignette, argument, or example.
- If a "beat" needs five paragraphs and three subheadings, it's not a beat — it's two beats glued together. Split it.
Writing one beat
Once a beat is picked, write that beat only to the article file. Do not write the next beat.
Pull material from the raw pile to populate the beat. You can paraphrase, split, recombine, or quote. The pile is a quarry.
Ending the journey
The article ends when the journey is complete — not when the pile is empty. Most piles will have leftover fragments that don't make it in. That is fine; that is the point of having more raw material than you need.
Writing rhythm
Append one beat at a time. Never write ahead. Re-read the article file from disk before every write. Preserve user edits absolutely. If the user edits a previous beat substantially, let it change what comes next. If the user says "rewrite that beat" or "go back and try a different beat 3", do it — edit in place, leave the rest alone.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 46 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A c40290bc9506
writing-beats is a skill published in the GitHub repository alecs5am/ralphy (132 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 615 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to writing-beats, differing in 37 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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