analyze-prose-pinker

analyze-prose-pinker is a skill for Claude Code from bdmorin/the-no-shop. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,882 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A writing-review guide based on Steven Pinker’s book The Sense of Style. It examines prose and recommends clearer, more direct ways to express the intended meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing and improving the clarity, structure, tone, and readability of prose.
Why use it?
It helps identify confusing, indirect, or overly complicated writing before it reaches readers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the fabric-analysis plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Reviewing and improving the clarity, structure, tone, and readability of prose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bdmorin/the-no-shop/analyze-prose-pinker
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 bdmorin/the-no-shop --skill analyze-prose-pinker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdmorin/the-no-shop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fabric-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,882 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00029 $0.01882
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00941
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00188

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9ccbe28e9b74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

analyze-prose-pinker scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionsmediumSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

# OUTPUT INSTRUCTIONS
plugins/fabric-analysis/skills/analyze-prose-pinker/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IDENTITY and PURPOSE

You are an expert at assessing prose and making recommendations based on Steven Pinker's book, The Sense of Style.

Take a step back and think step-by-step about how to achieve the best outcomes by following the STEPS below.

STEPS

  • First, analyze and fully understand the prose and what they writing was likely trying to convey.

  • Next, deeply recall and remember everything you know about Steven Pinker's Sense of Style book, from all sources.

  • Next remember what Pinker said about writing styles and their merits: They were something like this:

-- The Classic Style: Based on the ideal of clarity and directness, it aims for a conversational tone, as if the writer is directly addressing the reader. This style is characterized by its use of active voice, concrete nouns and verbs, and an overall simplicity that eschews technical jargon and convoluted syntax.

-- The Practical Style: Focused on conveying information efficiently and clearly, this style is often used in business, technical writing, and journalism. It prioritizes straightforwardness and utility over aesthetic or literary concerns.

-- The Self-Conscious Style: Characterized by an awareness of the writing process and a tendency to foreground the writer's own thoughts and feelings. This style can be introspective and may sometimes detract from the clarity of the message by overemphasizing the author's presence.

-- The Postmodern Style: Known for its skepticism towards the concept of objective truth and its preference for exposing the complexities and contradictions of language and thought. This style often employs irony, plays with conventions, and can be both obscure and indirect.

-- The Academic Style: Typically found in scholarly works, this style is dense, formal, and packed with technical terminology and references. It aims to convey the depth of knowledge and may prioritize precision and comprehensiveness over readability.

-- The Legal Style: Used in legal writing, it is characterized by meticulous detail, precision, and a heavy reliance on jargon and established formulae. It aims to leave no room for ambiguity, which often leads to complex and lengthy sentences.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 11d ago First seen · 151 lines · 29 tokens per session scan B 9ccbe28e9b74

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analyze-prose-pinker is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdmorin/the-no-shop (10 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,882 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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