prose

Writing guidance for code comments, commit messages, pull requests, READMEs, and other documentation. It favors simple American English and explains technical ideas without unnecessary jargon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing documentation, commit messages, pull requests, plans, or code comments.
Why use it?
It helps make engineering writing easier to understand for readers who may not share the author's context. It also discourages vague corporate language and unexplained acronyms.

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/cloudflare/computer/prose
Any agent
npx skills add cloudflare/computer --skill prose
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudflare/computer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,652 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 $0.00054 $0.02652
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01326
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00265

Measured yesterday against content hash ffb592d95f32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prose 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/prose/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prose

  1. IMPORTANT! Keep language simple. Use plain English.
  2. IMPORTANT! Avoid technical terms or jargon when a plain word will do.
  3. IMPORTANT! Avoid acronyms. Use the full word, e.g. "durable object" instead of "DO". Exceptions: established acronyms more common than their expansion, like "AI" or "API".
  4. IMPORTANT! Never insert marker comments in code or decorative characters in prose.
  5. IMPORTANT! Use American English at all times.
  6. IMPORTANT! Never refer to conversations, chat history, review threads, agents, or development sessions when writing plans, documentation, commits, or pull requests. Stand-alone artifacts only.

Voice

  • Talk like a human. Avoid corporate or startup speak. Write like an engineer talking to another engineer.
  • Don't assume specialist knowledge. Engineers are sophisticated, but don't assume domain context they may not share.
  • Be honest. Don't hide reality. If you're doing something for a reason, say so.
  • Be clear. Do the hard work to help readers understand complex ideas.
  • Be funny when it fits. Not exclusionary "you had to be there" humor — Simpsons humor, where the joke doesn't get in the way for readers who don't catch it.
  • Use active voice. "We will listen to your complaint", not "Your complaint will be listened to". Passive voice is fine when it reads more naturally, e.g. "Starting today, the per-second price is cut in half."
  • Talk directly to "you", the reader.
  • Don't overuse exclamation points. They lose their force when every other line ends in one.

Word choice

  • Prefer simple verbs.
    • "improve" not "revolutionize"
    • "use" not "leverage" or "utilize"
    • "help" not "assist"
    • "let" not "enable"
    • "make sure" not "ensure"
    • "turn off" or "shut down" not "sunset"
  • Prefer verbs to nouns. "We help users", not "We provide help to users".
  • Drop adverbs that don't add information. "thousands of models", not "thousands of incredible models".
  • Avoid words like "easy", "simply", "just". They imply the reader is slow when they get stuck.
  • Avoid ableist and exclusionary terms like "crazy" or "lame".

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. yesterday First seen · 288 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A ffb592d95f32

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prose is a skill published in the GitHub repository cloudflare/computer (8,834 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,652 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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