content-creation

content-creation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (7,694 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning, writing, publishing, and measuring content for a specific audience. It covers content such as articles, social posts, and other material used to reach people online.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape content strategies, choose writing approaches, plan distribution, improve content for search, and measure audience or business results.
Why use it?
It helps prevent content from being created without a clear reader, purpose, distribution plan, or way to judge results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to shape content strategies, choose writing approaches, plan distribution, improve content for search, and measure audience or business results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/content-creation
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill content-creation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,694 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.07694
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.03847
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00769

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7f6263cb6031, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

content-creation 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.

categories/marketing/content-creation/SKILL.md · 709 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 709 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Content Creation

Core Principles

1. Audience First, Everything Else Second

Content exists to serve a specific audience with specific needs. Before writing a single word, define: Who is this for? What do they need to know? What action do they need to take? Content created without audience clarity is noise, not value.

2. Strategy Before Execution

A blog post without a purpose is a diary entry. Every piece of content must serve a strategic goal: build awareness, educate prospects, drive conversions, retain customers, or establish authority. Content strategy aligns creation with business outcomes.

3. Quality is a Minimum, Not a Differentiation

In 2024, "good enough" content does not break through. Readers have infinite options. Your content must be more useful, more actionable, more original, or more entertaining than anything else they could be reading. Excellence is table stakes.

4. Distribution is 80% of the Work

Creating great content is only the first 20%. The remaining 80% is ensuring it reaches the right audience through the right channels. A brilliant article that nobody reads is worthless. Build distribution into your workflow, not as an afterthought.

5. Form Follows Function

The format of your content should be dictated by its purpose and the audience's consumption habits. A complex B2B topic might warrant a long-form guide; a quick tip works better as a short video or tweet. Match the medium to the message.

6. Measure What Matters, Ignore the Rest

Vanity metrics (page views, likes) can be misleading. Focus on engagement (time on page, scroll depth), conversion (form fills, purchases), and attribution (which content influenced the buying decision). If you cannot tie content to business outcomes, you are creating art, not marketing.

7. Consistency Beats Perfection

Publishing once a month at 95% quality is worse than publishing weekly at 80% quality. Audience building requires regularity. A consistent cadence builds trust, trains algorithms, and creates a habit for your readers. Optimize for sustainability.

Read the full file on GitHub · 709 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. 5d ago First seen · 709 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 7f6263cb6031

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content-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 7,694 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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