puzzletide-crossword

puzzletide-crossword is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Caravaca-Labs/puzzletide-cli. It costs 58 tokens per session (787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for creating crossword puzzles from word-and-clue lists or themes. It uses a local tool to place words so they intersect correctly, number the entries, and validate the finished grid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate standard crossword grids, themed puzzles, educational worksheets, or printable PDF puzzles.
Why use it?
It avoids broken grids and mismatched clues that are easy to create when crossword layouts are drawn by hand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to generate standard crossword grids, themed puzzles, educational worksheets, or printable PDF puzzles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caravaca-labs/puzzletide-cli/puzzletide-crossword
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 Caravaca-Labs/puzzletide-cli --skill puzzletide-crossword
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Caravaca-Labs/puzzletide-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 787 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 $0.00058 $0.00787
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00079

Measured 7d ago against content hash e56e0ba0bece, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

puzzletide-crossword 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 7d 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/puzzletide-crossword/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PuzzleTide Crossword

Generate crossword puzzles with the local PuzzleTide CLI.

Never hand-draw a crossword grid. Language models cannot reliably keep intersecting words consistent. The CLI places words with real intersections, assigns standard crossword numbering, and validates that every clue's answer matches the grid before returning — words that cannot interlock are reported as unplaced instead of silently broken.

Prefer the local CLI. Check availability in this order:

ptide --version
puzzletide --version
npx puzzletide --version

If none of those work, ask the user before installing (npm install -g puzzletide).

Generate with your own clues (best quality)

Write the clues yourself — you are good at clues; the CLI is good at grids:

ptide crossword generate --words "PARIS: Capital of France; TOKYO: Capital of Japan; OSLO: Capital of Norway"

For longer lists use a JSON file:

ptide crossword generate --file words.json --pdf crossword.pdf
# words.json: [{"word": "PARIS", "clue": "Capital of France"}, ...]

Generate from a themed word bank

Clues are auto-generated puzzle-style hints (unscramble, letter counts):

ptide crossword generate --theme food/fruits --count 10

For better clues, pull the words and write clues yourself:

ptide words list food/fruits --count 10 --json
# ...then pass your own word:clue pairs to crossword generate.

Printable and structured output

ptide crossword generate --file words.json --pdf crossword.pdf --title "Science Review"
ptide run puzzle.crossword.generate --theme animals --json

The PDF has three sections: empty numbered grid, clue list, and solution. --json returns the grid ("#" = black cell) plus across/down clues with coordinates — ready for rendering in an app.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 7d ago First seen · 93 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A e56e0ba0bece

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puzzletide-crossword is a skill published in the GitHub repository Caravaca-Labs/puzzletide-cli (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 787 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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