made-to-stick

made-to-stick is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing and review framework based on the book Made to Stick. It helps turn complex ideas into messages that are easier to remember and act on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for improving product copy, documentation, landing pages, emails, presentations, pitches, and explanations of complex ideas.
Why use it?
It helps reduce vague or overly technical communication by focusing on simple, concrete, credible, and audience-relevant explanations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for improving product copy, documentation, landing pages, emails, presentations, pitches, and explanations of complex ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff/made-to-stick
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 ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff --skill made-to-stick
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,138 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.02138
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00214

Measured 10d ago against content hash ae6be8595d80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

made-to-stick 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 10d 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/made-to-stick/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Made to Stick Skill

Based on Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Apply Chip and Dan Heath's SUCCESs framework to make ideas memorable, impactful, and actionable. This skill helps you transform abstractions into concrete, sticky communication.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Writing landing pages, blog posts, emails, or documentation
  • Crafting investor pitches, sales decks, or presentations
  • Reviewing content for memorability and impact
  • Fighting the Curse of Knowledge in technical writing
  • Evaluating app concepts or feature descriptions (secondary)
  • Explaining complex ideas to non-experts

The SUCCESs Framework Quick Reference

Principle One-Line Summary Diagnostic Question
Simple Find the core and express it compactly "If they remember only one thing, what should it be?"
Unexpected Break patterns to grab and hold attention "What's counterintuitive about this?"
Concrete Use sensory, tangible language people can visualize "Can someone picture this in their mind?"
Credible Make it believable through proof or testability "Why should they believe this?"
Emotional Make people feel something, not just think "What emotion does this evoke?"
Stories Show, don't tell—use narrative to drive action "Is there a person going through something here?"

Workflows

1. Improve Copy

Use for: Landing pages, blog posts, emails, documentation

Steps:

  1. Read the existing copy
  2. Ask the user what one thing readers should remember
  3. Score each section against SUCCESs principles (see sticky-evaluation.md)
  4. Identify the weakest principles and apply targeted techniques:
    • Low Simple: Cut abstractions, find the Commander's Intent
    • Low Unexpected: Add a curiosity gap or pattern break
    • Low Concrete: Replace jargon with sensory details
    • Low Credible: Add a Sinatra Test, antiauthority, or testable claim
    • Low Emotional: Find the individual, not the statistic
    • Low Stories: Frame as someone overcoming something

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 212 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A ae6be8595d80

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made-to-stick is a skill published in the GitHub repository ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,138 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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