build-style-guide

build-style-guide is a skill for Claude Code from animalzinc/claude-plugins. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,745 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A style-guide builder that creates or updates a brand's writing rules from articles, brand materials, or editor changes. It records the evidence behind each proposed rule and waits for approval before writing changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, import, or upgrade a brand editorial guide and add automated checks for rules that can be tested by code.
Why use it?
It turns scattered examples and editorial decisions into one reviewable guide while keeping proposed changes separate from the current version.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the blog-style-guide-creator plugin — 4 skills, 2 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create, update, import, or upgrade a brand editorial guide and add automated checks for rules that can be tested by code.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add animalzinc/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install blog-style-guide-creator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blog-style-guide-creator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 commands, 11 agents.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,745 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 $0.00092 $0.01745
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00698
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00175

Measured 2d ago against content hash d18601681334, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-style-guide 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 2d 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.

plugins/blog-style-guide-creator/skills/build-style-guide/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build a style guide

Creates, updates, imports, and upgrades one brand's guide. Sources become candidate rules with evidence; one agent merges them with the current guide into a proposal; the user approves the diff before the guide changes. The format every rule follows is in schema.md.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Commands

Every sgc step is python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/sgc.py" <command> ..., written out in full each time and run as its own Bash call, never chained with ;, &&, or a pipe, so it matches the skill's permission for sgc; read and list files with the Read and Glob tools. On Windows, py -3 in place of python3. If neither runs Python 3.9 or later, stop and tell the user the plugin needs Python 3.9+ from python.org. sgc prints JSON; on a non-zero exit, show the stderr message and stop unless a step says how to recover.

Modes

Arguments Does
<brand> <sources> A new guide, or an update to an existing one, from articles
--from-kit [kit] Imports a brand kit through a connected brand kit tool
--from-kit --kit-only Compiles the guide from the kit alone; other sources become proposals for the kit's owner
--from-doc F Imports a brand style document
--edits [folder] Learns rules from original and edited draft pairs
--upgrade Converts a version 1 guide, following upgrade-v1.md

Modes combine: --from-doc brand.pdf https://blog.example.com reads both.

Steps

1. Resolve the brand

The plugin's guides folder setting reads: ${user_config.guides_dir}. Run sgc brand-path <brand> --project-dir "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}", adding --guides-dir "<path>" only when that setting is an absolute path (an unset setting shows as text starting with ${, which must never reach the shell). Keep brand_dir, guide, guide_exists, and schema_version. A schema_version of 1 with any mode other than --upgrade: run the upgrade first, then continue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A d18601681334

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build-style-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository animalzinc/claude-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,745 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-11-11.

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