x-algo-tweet-writer

x-algo-tweet-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments. It costs 246 tokens per session (4,023 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. It covers single posts, threads, quote-posts, and replies, using documented information about how X recommends content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or rewrite X posts, threads, quote-posts, and replies from a topic, news item, link, or rough idea.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea, link, or rough draft into a post shaped for the signals used by X’s recommendation system. It also explains the reasoning behind writing choices when needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the launch-mcp plugin — 4 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft or rewrite X posts, threads, quote-posts, and replies from a topic, news item, link, or rough idea.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments/x-algo-tweet-writer
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 buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments --skill x-algo-tweet-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install launch-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 246 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,023 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00246 $0.04023
Opus 5 $0.00123 $0.02011
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00805
Haiku 4.5 $0.00025 $0.00402

Measured 12d ago against content hash cec0dbdd587b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x-algo-tweet-writer 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 12d 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.

mcp/servers/launch-mcp/skills/x-algo-tweet-writer/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

X Algorithm Tweet Writer

Purpose

Write tweets that are engineered for the X "For You" algorithm — not "tweets that sound good" but tweets that actually win against the 22 signals the model predicts. Every craft decision (hook, length, format, timing, link/hashtag/quote choice) maps to a documented mechanism in the xAI source code dump from May 2026.

The full source-code analysis is in references/x-algo-insights.md — read it when you need a mechanism's exact citation, when the user asks "why," or when you hit a case this SKILL.md doesn't cover.


The mental model in one paragraph

The algorithm scores each tweet as a weighted sum of 22 probabilities. 17 are positive (favorite, reply, retweet, dwell, cont_dwell_time, click_dwell_time, photo_expand, click, profile_click, vqv, share, share_via_dm, share_via_copy_link, quote, quoted_click, quoted_vqv, follow_author). 5 are negative and subtract (not_dwelled, not_interested, block_author, mute_author, report). Negative signals weigh orders of magnitude more than positive ones. Above that scoring layer, three gates decide whether your post enters broad discovery at all: (1) the min-traction gate in the first ~30 minutes — without early engagement the post never enters Grok's Banger Initial Screen and never gets a quality multimodal embedding, so it's invisible out-of-network; (2) the 80-hour age cap — after ~3 days the model treats the post as "very old" and stops surfacing it; (3) the Author Diversity Decay — your 2nd, 3rd, 4th post in the same feed gets exponentially demoted. Everything else is a corollary.


Workflow (follow in order)

Step 1: Clarify the goal

Before writing, identify which of these the user wants. Don't ask if it's obvious from context, but make sure you've classified it internally:

Goal Optimize for Format implications
Reach / virality quote_score, retweet_score, follow_author, dwell Original post, contrarian hook, citable phrasing, post at audience peak time
Engagement / conversation reply_score, cont_dwell_time Question or polarizing claim at end, substantive body, reply hook
Follower growth follow_author_score, profile_click_score Strong POV, unique angle, "who is this person?" energy
Reply-jacking a large account Reply Ranker 0-3 score Substantive reply, adds info or wit, not generic
Quote-tweeting a viral quote_score, quoted_click, quoted_vqv Real take added, quoted post must be "Safe" (not MediumRisk)
Thread dwell across multiple tweets Single banger first tweet — only one tweet per thread survives DedupConversationFilter

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 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. 12d ago First seen · 240 lines · 246 tokens per session scan A cec0dbdd587b

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x-algo-tweet-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments (763 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 246 tokens to every session and 4,023 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-30.

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