blog.create_til

blog.create_til is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 8 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide for creating a concise “Today I Learned” article: a short post about a new technical fact, concept, or lesson. It uses sections such as an explanation, example, key takeaways, and further reading.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a topic into a 500–1000-word educational post with an introduction, TL;DR, code or a real-world example where suitable, and actionable conclusions.
Why use it?
It helps explain technical discoveries clearly without turning them into exhaustive articles, while keeping the writing practical and accessible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/blog.create_til
Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill blog.create_til
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 399 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00008 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00040

Measured 5d ago against content hash 99510b89d955, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blog.create_til 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/blog.create_til/SKILL.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

Goal

Write a concise, engaging, and educational "Today I Learned" (TIL) blog post about the topic / content from the user

Structure

  1. Title
  2. What I Learned
  3. Why It Matters
  4. Example / Demonstration
  5. Key Takeaways
  6. References or Further Reading
  • The post should:
    • Start with a short introduction explaining what I learned and why it caught my attention
    • Clearly explain the concept in simple language suitable for software engineers, tech enthusiasts, or curious readers
    • Include a practical example, code snippet, or real-world use case where appropriate
    • Highlight any surprising insights, common misconceptions, or lessons learned during the discovery process
    • End with key takeaways and actionable advice for readers who want to explore the topic further

Use Front Matter and TLDR

  • Add front matter as in .claude/skills/blog.rules.md ## Front Matter (YAML)
  • Add TL;DR as in .claude/skills/blog.rules.md ## TL;DR Section

Tone

  • Conversational and reflective
  • Technical but accessible
  • Curious and educational

Length

  • Keep the post between 500–1000 words and focus on clarity, practical value, and genuine learning rather than exhaustive coverage

Formatting Rules

  • Make sure to write using bullet points

  • Follow the rules in:

    • .claude/skills/blog.rules.md
    • .claude/skills/markdown.rules.md
    • .claude/skills/text.rules.md

Beautify

  • Run a command to format the code for proper visualization
    > prettier --tab-width 4 --prose-wrap always --print-width 80 -w <FILE>
    
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. 5d ago First seen · 64 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 99510b89d955

Subscribe to this mod's changes

blog.create_til is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (145 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 399 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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