tone

tone is a skill for Claude Code from alexey-pkv/claude-companions. It costs 48 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for changing the assistant’s communication style during a session. It can list available styles, choose one at random, or load a named style file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list available tones, switch to a specific tone, or randomly select one for the current session.
Why use it?
Different tasks or preferences may call for different voices, such as formal, casual, or highly concise communication. This tool changes the style without changing the technical task itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to list available tones, switch to a specific tone, or randomly select one for the current session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexey-pkv/claude-companions/tone
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexey-pkv/claude-companions --skill tone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexey-pkv/claude-companions

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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 $0.00048 $0.00538
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00215
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 298e06de5038, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tone 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 2mo 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.

skills/tone/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Tone Selection

Switch or randomize the communication tone/personality for the current session. Tones are stored as .md files in ~/.claude/tones/.

Handling Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS and follow one of three paths:

Path 1: List available tones

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, not provided, "list", or "ls":

  1. Use Bash: ls ~/.claude/tones/*.md 2>/dev/null | xargs -n1 basename | sed 's/\.md$//' | sort
  2. Display the results as a formatted list
  3. Do NOT apply any tone — just show the list

Path 2: Random tone selection

If $ARGUMENTS is "random":

  1. Use Bash: ~/.claude/scripts/rotate-tone.sh
  2. Adopt the output as the tone for the rest of the session

Path 3: Specific tone

If $ARGUMENTS is a tone name (e.g., "space-marine", "gordon-ramsay"):

  1. Read ~/.claude/tones/$ARGUMENTS.md
  2. If found, confirm to the user which tone was loaded
  3. Adopt the tone's communication style for the rest of the session

If the tone is not found:

  1. Use Bash to list available tones: ls ~/.claude/tones/*.md 2>/dev/null | xargs -n1 basename | sed 's/\.md$//' | sort
  2. Check if any available tone name is similar to what the user typed (e.g., "ramsay" → "gordon-ramsay", "marine" → "space-marine"). If there's a likely match, suggest it: "Did you mean <tone-name>?"
  3. If no close match, show the available tones list and suggest: "You can create a custom tone with /create-tone $ARGUMENTS"

After Loading a Tone

  • Tell the user the tone name that was loaded
  • Immediately begin using the tone's communication style
  • Maintain the tone for all subsequent responses in the session
  • The tone affects ONLY communication style — never compromise code quality, technical accuracy, or professionalism in code/architecture
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. 2mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 298e06de5038

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tone is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexey-pkv/claude-companions (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 538 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 2026-08-31.

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