mandarin-rhyming-guide

mandarin-rhyming-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,691 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to making rhymes for classical Chinese poetry using modern Mandarin pronunciation. It explains tones, pinyin finals—the vowel and ending sounds—and how they relate to the traditional level and oblique tone groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose rhyming Chinese characters, compare pinyin endings, apply Mandarin tone categories, and compose regulated verse with compatible rhyme sounds.
Why use it?
It helps avoid rhymes that look similar in writing but do not sound alike in modern Mandarin. It also provides a consistent way to check tone patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps choose rhyming Chinese characters, compare pinyin endings, apply Mandarin tone categories, and compose regulated verse with compatible rhyme sounds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cxcscmu/skilllearnbench/mandarin-rhyming-guide
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Any agent
npx skills add cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench --skill mandarin-rhyming-guide
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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
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.01691
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00846
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00169

Measured 8d ago against content hash 49bb4f6bae99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mandarin-rhyming-guide 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 8d ago.

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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/b1-one-shot-claude-haiku-4-5/chinese-poem-generator/mandarin-rhyming-guide/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

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Mandarin Rhyming for Classical Poetry

Modern Mandarin Pronunciation System

The Four Tones

1st Tone (ā): High and level
2nd Tone (á): Rising from middle to high
3rd Tone (ǎ): Falling then rising (dip)
4th Tone (à): Sharp fall from high to low

In regulated verse composition:

  • Tones determine 平仄 patterns (1st & 2nd = 平, 3rd & 4th = 仄)
  • Rhyming words must share the same final vowel sound + consonant pattern
  • Tone marks can be different; only the vowel+consonant final must match

Pinyin Finals (Rhyme Sets)

Finals Ending in -an

  • an (安/安): ān, án, ǎn, àn [pīnyīn: bān, pán, etc.]
  • ian: xiān, miǎn, diàn
  • uan: duān, guán, etc.
  • üan: xuān, etc.

Common characters for 安 rhyme:

  • 安 (ān) - peace/safety
  • 山 (shān) - mountain
  • 关 (guān) - gate/close
  • 还 (huán) - return
  • 间 (jiān) - space/between
  • 坚 (jiān) - firm
  • 颜 (yán) - face/color
  • 年 (nián) - year
  • 天 (tiān) - sky/heaven
  • 千 (qiān) - thousand

Finals Ending in -ing

  • ing: dīng, míng, píng, tíng
  • uing: guīng, duīng
  • iing: (not commonly used)

Common characters for -ing rhyme:

  • 平 (píng) - flat/peace
  • 鸣 (míng) - cry/sound
  • 京 (jīng) - capital
  • 情 (qíng) - emotion
  • 生 (shēng) - life/birth
  • 听 (tīng) - listen
  • 云 (yún) - cloud
  • 明 (míng) - bright

Finals Ending in -ang

  • ang: bāng, fāng, gāng, cháng
  • iang: jiāng, liáng, xiáng
  • uang: zhuāng, chuáng, guāng

Common characters:

  • 堂 (táng) - hall
  • 乡 (xiāng) - village/countryside
  • 光 (guāng) - light
  • 伤 (shāng) - wound/harm
  • 长 (cháng) - long
  • 江 (jiāng) - river

Finals Ending in -en

  • en: bēn, gēn, ōu
  • ien: diēn, etc.
  • uen: guēn, kūn
  • ün: lǜn, jūn

Finals Ending in -er

  • er: ér, hěr
  • Most standalone rhyme (儿/女/者 style)

Identifying Rhyme Families

Method 1: Same Final Sound

Two characters rhyme if they share the same final vowel sound:

  • 天 (tiān) + 年 (nián) = both end in "an" sound ✓
  • 天 (tiān) + 名 (míng) = different finals ✗

Method 2: Checking Modern Pronunciation

  1. Write character's pinyin with tone marks
  2. Remove the tone mark
  3. Keep only the final vowel pattern
  4. Characters with identical finals rhyme

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 8d ago First seen · 173 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 49bb4f6bae99

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mandarin-rhyming-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxcscmu/SkillLearnBench (83 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,691 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 2026-08-30.

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