dialogue

dialogue is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ckokoski/AuthorAgent. It costs 13 tokens per session (456 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dialogue-writing aid for making characters speak in distinct ways and express more than their literal words. Subtext means the unstated meaning or motive beneath what a character says.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape vocabulary, rhythm, dialect, emotional habits, signature phrases, and the things each character avoids saying.
Why use it?
It helps remove filler conversation and makes each line support character, conflict, tension, or plot.

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/ckokoski/authoragent/dialogue
Any agent
npx skills add Ckokoski/AuthorAgent --skill dialogue
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 456 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 $0.00013 $0.00456
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00046

Measured 5d ago against content hash 54c9e2bc11aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dialogue 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.

skills/author/dialogue/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Dialogue Skill

Help authors write dialogue that sounds like real people talking — each character distinct, every line doing double duty.

Dialogue Principles

  1. Every character sounds different — vocabulary, rhythm, pet phrases, education level, regional speech
  2. Subtext over text — People rarely say exactly what they mean
  3. Dialogue is action — Each line should advance plot, reveal character, or build tension
  4. Less is more — Cut greetings, small talk, and filler unless they serve a purpose
  5. Read it aloud — If it sounds wrong spoken, it reads wrong too

Character Voice Differentiation

For each character, define:

  • Education level: Affects vocabulary and sentence structure
  • Regional background: Dialect, slang, expressions
  • Emotional default: Sarcastic? Earnest? Guarded?
  • Speech rhythm: Short bursts or long flowing sentences?
  • Signature phrases: What words/phrases are uniquely theirs?
  • What they avoid saying: What topics make them deflect?

Dialogue Tags

  • Default to "said" (invisible to readers)
  • Use action beats instead of tags when possible
  • Avoid: "exclaimed," "retorted," "queried" (draws attention to the tag)
  • Never: "said softly" → show softness through word choice and action

Subtext Techniques

  • Deflection: Character answers a different question than was asked
  • Contradiction: Words say one thing, actions say another
  • Silence: What they DON'T say reveals more than what they do
  • Interruption: Shows power dynamics and urgency
  • Non-sequitur: Character changes subject to avoid discomfort
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 · 53 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 54c9e2bc11aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dialogue is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ckokoski/AuthorAgent (103 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 456 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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