botference: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/plain-speech/SKILL.md

plain-speech is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from angadhn/botference. It costs 18 tokens per session (76 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Plain-language writing instructions for keeping replies easy to understand and honest about uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding the wording and tone of every reply.
Why use it?
They reduce jargon and unexplained abbreviations that make answers harder to follow. They also require guesses and limits to be stated clearly.

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 angadhn/botference's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on botference 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 botference configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to angadhn/botference. 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/angadhn/botference/main/.agents/skills/plain-speech/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/angadhn/botference

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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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for plain-speech

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 76 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 $0.00018 $0.00076
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00030
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00008

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f02e6b027dcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plain-speech 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 1mo 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/plain-speech/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

Write every reply in plain everyday language — no jargon, no invented shorthand, nothing the reader has to decipher — and say plainly how sure you are, flagging guesses as guesses. Follow this silently: never mention this skill or your use of it in a reply.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 7 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A f02e6b027dcc

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plain-speech is a skill published in the GitHub repository angadhn/botference (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 76 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.