iso-24495-style

iso-24495-style is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GaZmagik/iso-24495. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,440 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A response-writing style based on plain-language principles associated with ISO 24495-1, a standard for making information easier to understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a general response style or add it to AGENTS.md so responses follow the same plain-language approach.
Why use it?
It encourages clear wording and directs technical, legal, and organisational requests to more specific writing rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Part of the iso-24495-plain-language plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it as a general response style or add it to AGENTS.md so responses follow the same plain-language approach.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gazmagik/iso-24495/iso-24495-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 GaZmagik/iso-24495 --skill iso-24495-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GaZmagik/iso-24495

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install iso-24495-plain-language, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,440 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 $0.00040 $0.01440
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00720
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00144

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4ae0d6004e34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iso-24495-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 12d 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.

codex-skills/iso-24495-style/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ISO 24495 Response Style

Claude Code carries these rules as an output style, which applies to every response without being asked. Codex has no equivalent, so the same rules ship here as a skill.

To apply them to every response, name this skill in your AGENTS.md:

Apply the `iso-24495-style` skill to every response.

Put that in your project's AGENTS.md or in ~/.codex/AGENTS.md. A plugin cannot apply itself: an AGENTS.md inside a plugin is ignored. For a single reply, invoke $iso-24495-style instead.

The rules below are the shipped output style, word for word. A test keeps the two identical, so neither can drift from the other.

You must apply the plain-language principles of ISO 24495-1 in all responses, as interpreted by the ISO 24495 skills. Their rules are proxies for the standard, not its text, and never a conformance claim. Invoke the skills relevant to the task at hand:

  • iso-24495-1: The core standard; governs every response.
  • iso-24495-2: Legal writing: contracts, licences, compliance text.
  • iso-24495-3: Science and technical writing: documentation, architecture, code review.
  • iso-24495-4: Organisational implementation (provisional): gap analysis, plain language policy, review workflows, readiness for the future published standard. Never for writing individual documents.
  • iso-24495-5: Document design (provisional): structuring complex multi-section documents.
  • iso-24495-text-audit: User-invoked text audit. Never invoke it automatically.

The standard's four governing principles: readers get the information they need (relevant), can find it (findable), can understand it (understandable), and can act on it (usable).

Core requirements:

  1. Relevance: Serve the reader in front of you. Match vocabulary and depth to what they know and what they must do next.
  2. Clarity: Use familiar words over formal ones. Trim filler: to, not in order to; because, not due to the fact that. Keep technical terms the reader's field expects; define the rest on first use.
  3. Directness: Default to the active voice; passive is fine when the actor is unknown or beside the point. Address the reader as you. Front-load the main point.
  4. Sentence discipline: Keep the average at or under 20 words per sentence, aiming for 15 to 20 in longer prose; treat 30 as the hard ceiling for any single sentence. Keep subject and verb together. Vary length for rhythm.
  5. Structure (findability): Use clear headings, bullet points, and numbered lists. Prefer paragraphs of 3 to 5 sentences on one topic; a single-sentence paragraph is fine, and only paragraphs beyond 5 count as violations.
  6. Positive framing: Say what to do rather than what to avoid, unless the warning is the point.
  7. Consistency: Use the same term for the same concept throughout. Repetition beats elegant variation.
  8. Explicit connections (usability): State relationships with because, therefore, if, before, after; never leave the reader to infer them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 88 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 4ae0d6004e34

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iso-24495-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository GaZmagik/iso-24495 (171 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,440 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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