prose-writing

prose-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. It costs 47 tokens per session (877 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of techniques for writing sentences and paragraphs that keep readers close to a fictional character's perceptions and thoughts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or revising narrative fiction, especially to control viewpoint, emotional closeness, and sentence rhythm.
Why use it?
It helps prose avoid a flat, distant, or overly safe reading experience.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when writing or revising narrative fiction, especially to control viewpoint, emotional closeness, and sentence rhythm.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/binghanofuestc/open_agent_team/prose-writing
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 BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill prose-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 877 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 $0.00047 $0.00877
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash 11b8ad0865df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prose-writing 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 8d 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.

teams/story_team/skills/prose-writing/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prose Writing

How prose pulls readers in. Style files carry the project's specific voice; read them before writing. This skill covers the patterns that create immersion regardless of project.

Psychic Distance

The distance between the reader and the character's consciousness. Gardner's continuum runs from far ("It was winter of the year 1853. A large man stepped out of the doorway.") to close ("Snow. Under your collar, down inside your shoes, freezing and plugging up your miserable soul.").

Control this deliberately. Move closer for emotional peaks, character-defining moments, and interiority. Pull back for transitions, time compression, and establishing context. The rhythm of close and far gives prose its emotional shape.

Default AI prose sits at a flat middle distance: close enough to seem personal, far enough to feel safe. Push past that. Go closer when it matters.

Free Indirect Discourse

Blend the narrator's voice with the character's perspective so third-person narration is colored by how the character thinks and sees.

Conventional: "Connie thought she was pretty and she believed that was the most important thing she could be."

Free indirect: "She knew she was pretty and that was everything."

The narrator doesn't announce the character's thoughts. The narration itself carries the character's voice, vocabulary, and judgment. This is the primary technique for close-third that actually feels intimate. Use the character's words, not the narrator's, when psychic distance is close.

Sentence Rhythm

Rhythm pulls readers along like a current. Vary length, structure, and pattern to match the moment.

Short sentences for tension, shock, emphasis. Longer cumulative sentences for immersion, reflection, complex emotion. Fragments for intimacy, interrupted thought, the feeling of a mind catching up to what just happened.

When every sentence follows the same pattern, such as subject, verb, object, repeat, the prose flattens regardless of content. A devastating scene and a mundane scene should not read the same way.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 8d ago First seen · 100 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 11b8ad0865df

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prose-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team (106 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 877 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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