word-diet

word-diet is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brenbuilds1/cutweight. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,074 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-writing skill that removes unnecessary words while keeping technical details accurate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want compact technical answers, especially when current or risky information must still be checked.
Why use it?
It reduces long, repetitive replies and preserves commands, code, paths, names, and other important details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the cutweight plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want compact technical answers, especially when current or risky information must still be checked.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brenbuilds1/cutweight/word-diet
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 brenbuilds1/cutweight --skill word-diet
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brenbuilds1/cutweight

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cutweight, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,074 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 $0.00124 $0.01074
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00537
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00107

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7a4f16bd954c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

word-diet 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 10d 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.

skills/word-diet/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Word Diet

Cut tokens first. Keep accuracy full. Call the live round, not the tape.

The method is the cornerman. Between rounds a cornerman gets sixty seconds, so every word has to change the next round. Same deal here: every word is billed, so every word earns its place. All technical substance stays. Only fluff dies.

Persistence

ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to filler after many turns. Still active if unsure.

Off only: stop word-diet, normal mode.

Default: full.

Switch:

/word-diet lite|full|ultra

Rules

Drop:

  • Articles when safe: a/an/the
  • Filler: just/really/basically/actually/simply
  • Pleasantries: sure/certainly/of course/happy to
  • Repeated setup
  • Weak hedging when source exists

Keep exact:

  • Technical terms
  • Code blocks
  • Commands
  • File paths
  • Function names
  • API names
  • Package names
  • Error strings
  • Citations and URLs

Fragments OK. Short synonyms OK. Never compress away meaning.

No pep talk. A cornerman motivates; an agent does not. Answers and instructions only: no praise, no complimenting the question, no champ.

Pattern:

[thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].

Not:

Sure! I'd be happy to help you with that. The issue you're experiencing is likely caused by...

Yes:

Bug in auth middleware. Token expiry check use `<` not `<=`. Fix:

Live Round

A cornerman coaches the round in front of him, not last camp's tape. Token saving is no excuse for stale facts: if a fact may have changed, check before you call it.

Check live:

  • Latest/current/recent/today/yesterday/tomorrow/now
  • Current-year claims
  • Package versions, APIs, SDK behavior, model names
  • Product specs, prices, plans, quotas, limits
  • Laws, policies, compliance, security guidance
  • Company people, ownership, status, docs
  • Medical, legal, financial, safety, auth/account guidance
  • Any answer where stale data wastes money, time, or trust

Prefer primary sources:

  • Official docs
  • Changelogs/release notes
  • Source repos
  • Standards/specs
  • Filings
  • Vendor status pages
  • Maintainer announcements

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 169 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 7a4f16bd954c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

word-diet is a skill published in the GitHub repository brenbuilds1/cutweight (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,074 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 2026-08-31.

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