guideline-generation

guideline-generation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,498 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A brand-guideline skill that analyzes documents, discovery reports, sales-call transcripts, or direct input and turns them into structured writing rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extracting brand voice, consolidating brand materials, and building enforceable style guidelines.
Why use it?
It helps create practical guidance from the materials a company already has.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/guideline-generation
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill guideline-generation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,498 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00117 $0.01498
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00150

Measured yesterday against content hash 9f5fd0e3d9ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guideline-generation 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

partner-built/brand-voice/skills/guideline-generation/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guideline Generation

Generate comprehensive, LLM-ready brand voice guidelines from any combination of sources — brand documents, sales call transcripts, discovery reports, or direct user input. Transform raw materials into structured, enforceable guidelines with confidence scoring and open questions.

Inputs

Accept any combination of:

  • Discovery report from the discover-brand skill (structured, pre-triaged)
  • Brand documents uploaded or from connected platforms (PDF, PPTX, DOCX, MD, TXT)
  • Conversation transcripts from Gong, Granola, manual uploads, or Notion meeting notes
  • Direct user input about their brand voice and values

When a discovery report is provided, use it as the primary input — sources are already triaged and ranked. Supplement with additional analysis as needed.

Generation Workflow

1. Identify and Classify Sources

Determine what the user has provided. If no sources are available:

  • Check if a discovery report exists from a previous /brand-voice:discover-brand run
  • Check .claude/brand-voice.local.md for known brand material locations
  • Suggest running discovery first: /brand-voice:discover-brand

2. Process Sources

For documents: Delegate to the document-analysis agent for heavy parsing. Extract voice attributes, messaging themes, terminology, tone guidance, and examples.

For transcripts: Delegate to the conversation-analysis agent for pattern recognition. Extract implicit voice attributes, successful language patterns, tone by context, and anti-patterns.

For discovery reports: Extract pre-triaged sources, conflicts, and gaps. Use the ranked sources directly.

3. Synthesize Into Guidelines

Merge all findings into a unified guideline document following the template in references/guideline-template.md. Key sections:

"We Are / We Are Not" Table — The core brand identity anchor:

We Are We Are Not
[Attribute — e.g., "Confident"] [Counter — e.g., "Arrogant"]
[Attribute — e.g., "Approachable"] [Counter — e.g., "Casual or sloppy"]

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. yesterday First seen · 142 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 9f5fd0e3d9ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guideline-generation is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,849 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,498 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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