medium-writer

medium-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from flaqai/backlink_skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (4,444 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching, writing, editing, reviewing, and packaging long-form articles for Medium. Medium is a publishing platform for essays, tutorials, reviews, and other stories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop or revise Medium stories, discover topics, check facts, choose publications, and prepare publishing materials.
Why use it?
It helps shape material for Medium's format and audience while keeping research, images, publication choices, and AI assistance organized.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to develop or revise Medium stories, discover topics, check facts, choose publications, and prepare publishing materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flaqai/backlink_skills/medium-writer
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 flaqai/backlink_skills --skill medium-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flaqai/backlink_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,444 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 $0.00103 $0.04444
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.02222
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00889
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00444

Measured 9d ago against content hash 59763a61491c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

medium-writer 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/audit-medium-markdown.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

writer/medium-writer/SKILL.md · 454 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Medium Writer

Goal

Help an author turn original experience, expertise, notes, research, or a defensible idea into a Medium-native story that rewards the reader's time.

This skill reuses the parent writer workflow for fact checking, source discipline, humanization, local images, and optional Cloudflare R2 delivery, but it does not treat Medium as a generic SEO blog, a LinkedIn article host, or an automated content-distribution channel.

Medium-native work prioritizes:

  • a clear reason this author should tell this story;
  • an original insight, experience, experiment, case, or synthesis;
  • a title, subtitle, and preview image that accurately represent the story;
  • narrative movement and section-to-section continuity;
  • reader value over traffic capture, product promotion, or keyword coverage;
  • relevant Medium Topics and a realistic Publication fit;
  • transparent AI assistance and image labeling;
  • a publishing pack separated from the public story.

Default language follows the user's request. Medium's current distribution guidance treats English and non-English stories differently, so record the target language and do not imply equal eligibility for General Distribution or Boost without current verification.

Platform Routing

Destination Workflow
Medium story, essay, tutorial, review, or Publication submission Use this skill
LinkedIn Article, newsletter, or LinkedIn thought leadership Use ../linkedin-writer/SKILL.md
Google-first website article Use ../SKILL.md
Chinese WeChat Official Account article Use ../wechat-writer/SKILL.md

If the user says only “Medium article,” default to a Medium story published from the author's profile. Recommend a Publication only after checking its current theme, submission rules, open status, and story fit.

Required References

Read every relevant file completely before acting:

  • Medium search, Topic discovery, current topic seeds, and Publication research: references/medium-topic-research.md
  • New story, rewrite, or reusable result format: references/medium-article-template.md
  • Editorial review, distribution readiness, and revision gate: references/medium-review-rubric.md
  • Current claims, comparisons, or fact-heavy subjects: ../references/fact-check-and-style.md
  • Final natural-language edit after factual and structural revision: ../references/humanization.md
  • Local images, file packaging, and optional R2 delivery: ../references/output-packaging.md
  • R2 upload tasks only: ../references/r2-image-upload.md and ../references/r2-security.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 454 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 9d ago First seen · 454 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 59763a61491c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

medium-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository flaqai/backlink_skills (687 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 4,444 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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