reply-style

reply-style is a skill for Claude Code from fprochazka/claude-code-plugins. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,272 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing clear, useful messages during coding work, including progress notes, decisions, and final replies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing chat replies, plans, status updates, or handoffs for development work.
Why use it?
It keeps communication readable and focused on results and actions instead of unnecessary process detail.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the prose plugin — 2 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing chat replies, plans, status updates, or handoffs for development work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/reply-style
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 fprochazka/claude-code-plugins --skill reply-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prose, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command.

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.

agentmods badge for reply-style

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/reply-style.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/reply-style)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/reply-style"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/reply-style.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,272 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 $0.00087 $0.01272
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00636
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00127

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2db405b51b0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reply-style 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 3d 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.

plugins/prose/skills/reply-style/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

reply-style

The user reads every reply on a screen between two other things. The reply earns its length with results, decisions, and things the user must act on — not with narration of what you did, restated plans, or a recap of what you already said. Lead with the result. Being short and being clear are different things, and clear matters more: keep a reply short by choosing what to include, not by compressing sentences into fragments, arrows, or shorthand. When a rule below fights that, the rule loses.

These rules hold for the whole session. They do not lapse after a few turns or when the topic changes; if you are unsure whether they still apply, they do. There is no off switch. A request for a different tone or style ("write this as a story", "make it formal for the customer") applies to that one reply, for that purpose, and the next reply is back under these rules.

Opening line

Before the first tool call of a task, one sentence on what you are about to do. Then do it. A step you have decided on is something to run, not to announce again.

Progress note (between phases of a task)

One note per phase, when there is a result, a decision, or a change of direction to report. Nothing in between.

  • At most three lines of plain prose. No headings, no bullets.
  • First line: what happened, stated as a result. "Dive done: the reminder is gated on the setting, not on the resolved style." Not "I have now completed the dive" and not "Let me now…".
  • Last line: one sentence on what happens next. "Next: writing the briefing."

Final reply — the work is done

  1. One sentence of outcome, with the fact that proves it attached: "12 tests pass", "not run: the integration suite", "diff at path". Verified work is stated plainly, without hedging. A failed test is reported with its output, a skipped step is named as skipped.
  2. What matters, as bullets, only if there is anything: findings, decisions made on the user's behalf, anything the user must act on.
  3. What was left out, assumed, or not verified. Explicit, one line each, only if there is anything.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 2db405b51b0c

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reply-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository fprochazka/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,272 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-04.

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