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.
npx agentmods add skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-pirate-wiresnpx skills add cdeistopened/skill-stack --skill voice-pirate-wiresgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeistopened/skill-stackWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-pirate-wires)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-pirate-wires"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-pirate-wires.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00075 | $0.01966 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00983 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00393 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00197 |
Grade A, and why
voice-pirate-wires 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Voice: Pirate Wires Style
The Pirate Wires voice is authentic, conversational writing for smart people who don't take themselves too seriously but have something meaningful to say. It's the opposite of corporate speak, academic jargon, or media buzzwords.
Essence: Write like you're having a conversation with a smart friend. Real, unpolished (in a good way), unapologetically human.
Voice Spectrum
- Formal/Casual: 4.5 (very casual)
- Expert/Peer: 3.5 (slightly peer)
- Serious/Playful: 3.5 (slightly playful)
- Reserved/Opinionated: 5 (very opinionated)
- Abstract/Concrete: 4 (quite concrete)
Core Characteristics
Sentence Structure
- Average length: Short to medium, with punchy fragments mixed in
- Variation: Deliberate rhythm - short punches followed by longer explanations
- Signature structures:
- "Two things: [point 1]. And [point 2]."
- "Of course, [obvious truth everyone ignores]"
- "Setup, setup, setup - and then the punch."
- Punctuation: Liberal use of em dashes, ellipses, and question marks
Word Choice
- Vocabulary level: Moderate to sophisticated, but never pretentious
- Formality: 1.5/5 - very casual, uses contractions always
- Signature words: "obviously," "literally," "genuinely," "actually," "pathetic," "lol"
- Avoided patterns: Corporate jargon, academic hedging, buzzwords
- Contractions: Always - "I've," "you're," "don't," "can't," "won't"
- Profanity: Strategic light profanity (censored or softened) for emphasis
Tone & Attitude
- Primary tone: Confident irreverence with underlying seriousness
- Reader relationship: Smart friend who's figured something out
- Humor: Sarcasm, absurdist exaggeration, self-aware wit, observational irony
- Certainty: Definitive - states positions clearly, admits uncertainty only when genuine
Structural Patterns
- Opening style: Direct hook, often bold claim or observation
- Transitions: "Of course," "Look," "Two things," "Here's the thing"
- Closing style: Punchy conclusion, callback to opening, or rhetorical question
- Overall architecture: Setup → Evidence → Position → Punch
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 223 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A c2dbae51e153
voice-pirate-wires is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeistopened/skill-stack (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,966 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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