message

A project-messaging guide that helps explain what you are building, why it matters, and who it is for.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write a project introduction and adapt the explanation for particular audiences. It can also flag when the project's planning documents are still empty templates.
Why use it?
It turns unclear project ideas into a shared explanation and can expose gaps in the design. It also creates a written project summary.

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/danielrmay/claudity/message
Any agent
npx skills add danielrmay/claudity --skill message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielrmay/claudity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,086 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 $0.00010 $0.02086
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01043
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00209

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9f8c6a0a037c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

message 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 2d 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/message/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This works best when the problem and solution documents have real content — if they're still templates, say so and route through Claudity's start skill first. If the user named an audience or messaging focus when invoking this skill, honor it; follow the guide below from the beginning. The summary is not recorded until it was either written with the write_protocol_document tool or recorded via the --record script step near the end of this guide — a native file write alone does not record state.

Message Clarification

Build the narrative that explains what this project is and why anyone should care — starting with the general story and optionally developing audience-specific versions.

Overview

Good messaging isn't marketing — it's a thinking tool. When you can articulate what the project is and why it matters in a way that resonates, it means you actually understand what you're building. When you can't, that's a signal that something in the design needs work. If you can't tell a good story about the system, you don't have a good system.

This process produces two artifacts:

  • summary.md (required) — the project introduction. A name, a short narrative that explains the what and the why, written like you're talking to someone about something you care about. This is always the first thing someone reads.
  • messaging.md (optional) — audience-specific narratives for projects that need to be explained to different groups. Each audience gets a version of the story that speaks to their concerns and priorities.

This is a conversational process. You're not filling in templates — you're helping the user find the words that feel true and land well.

When to Use This Process

Run this when:

  • The problem and solution are solid enough to tell a story about (both should exist, even if rough)
  • summary.md is stale, reads like a mechanical spec, or doesn't exist yet
  • The user is preparing to explain the project to people (stakeholders, investors, users, skeptics)
  • The user is stuck and can't articulate what they're building — working on the narrative often unsticks the design itself

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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. 2d ago First seen · 171 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 9f8c6a0a037c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

message is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielrmay/claudity (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 2,086 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 2026-08-31.

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