dude-with-sign-writer

dude-with-sign-writer is a skill for Claude Code from cdeistopened/skill-stack. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing helper for short, bold one-line statements in the style of a person holding a sign in a street photo. It focuses on conversational jokes, opinions, and relatable feelings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for social captions, signs or easel reveals, and single-sentence hooks. It is not intended for long-form or professional writing.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea into a brief hook without drifting into an essay, formal announcement, or message that needs careful explanation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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/cdeistopened/skill-stack/dude-with-sign-writer
Any agent
npx skills add cdeistopened/skill-stack --skill dude-with-sign-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeistopened/skill-stack

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,631 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 5.1 $0.00067 $0.02631
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01316
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00263

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4cc2c9eb8cc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dude-with-sign-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 6d 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/dude-with-sign-writer/SKILL.md · 395 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 395 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dude With Sign One-Liner Writer

Creates bold, conversational one-liners that stop scrolling. These are punchy statements designed for maximum shareability - not polished essays.

Voice: Confident, direct, slightly irreverent. Like texting a friend who tells it like it is.

Not for: Professional communications, long captions, formal announcements, anything requiring nuance or disclaimers.


The 12 Core Patterns

1. Normalize Statements

Format: "Normalize [behavior/thing people feel guilty about]"

Challenges social pressure, gives permission.

Examples:

  • "Normalize going to the movies alone"
  • "Normalize Irish exit"
  • "Normalize taking your lunch break away from your desk"

When to use: Validating something your audience does but feels judged for.


2. Stop + Complaint

Format: "Stop [annoying behavior everyone experiences]"

Direct command. No explanation needed. The complaint IS the hook.

Examples:

  • "Stop showing sold-out items on your website"
  • "Stop making burgers wider, not taller"
  • "Stop scheduling meetings that could be emails"

When to use: Calling out universal frustrations. Works best when it's petty but relatable.


3. Everyday Observations

Format: "[Simple truth no one says out loud]"

Observational comedy meets social commentary. No command, just stating facts.

Examples:

  • "January is the Monday of the year"
  • "Finding something to watch shouldn't take longer than watching it"
  • "Your inbox isn't a to-do list"

When to use: When you want to sound smart without being preachy.


4. Relationship & Social Rules

Format: "[Relationship expectation/boundary stated as law]"

Universal agreements about how people should behave. Works for friendships, dating, work.

Examples:

  • "If we start a show together, you don't get to watch episodes without me"
  • "If she says she's not hungry, get her extra food anyway"
  • "If you're gonna vent, don't get mad when I offer solutions"

Read the full file on GitHub · 395 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. 6d ago First seen · 395 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 4cc2c9eb8cc6

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dude-with-sign-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeistopened/skill-stack (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,631 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 2026-08-30.

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