writing-style

writing-style is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexei-led/cc-thingz. It costs 71 tokens per session (628 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for commit messages, pull-request descriptions, issues, review comments, and technical discussions. It focuses on concise statements of facts, decisions, risks, and actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or edit Git messages, code-review comments, issue reports, pull-request descriptions, and other technical notes.
Why use it?
It removes filler and vague wording so engineering communication can be understood in one pass, while preserving important context and uncertainty.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to draft or edit Git messages, code-review comments, issue reports, pull-request descriptions, and other technical notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexei-led/cc-thingz/writing-style
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 alexei-led/cc-thingz --skill writing-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexei-led/cc-thingz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 628 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 $0.00071 $0.00628
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00251
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00063

Measured 10d ago against content hash 42b5de91b688, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-style 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 10d 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.

src/skills/writing-style/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Style

Produce text that a reader understands in one pass, with the fewest words that preserve its meaning. Explicit user and project requirements override these defaults. Apply the style in the reader's language, not just English.

Done when the text states the concrete point, contains no redundant material, and preserves necessary context, risks, and uncertainty. Return the text itself unless the user asks for an explanation or review.

Clarity

  • Lead with the result, problem, decision, or request. Each sentence adds a fact, reason, or action.
  • Use one term per concept. Name the actor and referent; expand unfamiliar abbreviations. Give enough context to understand the note without chat history.
  • Prefer actions to abstract nouns: "validate input", not "perform validation".
  • Replace quality claims with evidence or remove them. State recommendations directly, but label unverified claims and genuine uncertainty.
  • Cut ceremonial openings, repeated questions, process narration, sign-offs, and empty headings. Keep grammatical sentences; brevity is not shorthand.
  • Preserve negation, conditions, compatibility limits, security risks, required migrations, and project-mandated trailers or templates.
  • Leave code, identifiers, commands, paths, quoted errors, and logs unchanged.

Forms

  • Commit: name the concrete change in the subject. Add a body only for a non-obvious reason, consequence, or migration. Keep the repository's format.
  • PR/MR: explain what changed and why, then verification and remaining risks when relevant. A small change can take two sentences. Distinguish checks run from checks not run; never infer success from intent.
  • Issue: observed behavior, expected behavior, and a minimal reproduction when available. Separate evidence from suspected causes.
  • Review comment: defect, consequence, and a concrete fix or question. Cite the affected location; avoid praise sandwiches and unsupported certainty.
  • Discussion: answer or decision first, then the reason and next action only when needed. Do not restate the question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 10d ago First seen · 61 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 42b5de91b688

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writing-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexei-led/cc-thingz (37 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 628 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 2026-10-06.

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