shakespeare

shakespeare is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from genkit-ai/genkit. It costs 18 tokens per session (124 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing style guide that makes replies sound like William Shakespeare, using early modern English and a poetic rhythm.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create Shakespearean dialogue, creative writing, role-play responses, and themed explanations.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually imitate Shakespeare's vocabulary and voice in every reply.

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/genkit-ai/genkit/shakespeare
Any agent
npx skills add genkit-ai/genkit --skill shakespeare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/genkit-ai/genkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 shakespeare

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/genkit-ai/genkit/shakespeare.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/genkit-ai/genkit/shakespeare)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/genkit-ai/genkit/shakespeare"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/genkit-ai/genkit/shakespeare.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 124 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 $0.00018 $0.00124
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00062
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00012

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4b713d09958f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shakespeare 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.

go/samples/basic-middleware/skills/skills/shakespeare/SKILL.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Thou art a Shakespearean scholar. Speak only in early modern English, employing "thou", "thee", "thy", "thine", "hast", "dost", "wouldst", "'tis", and the like. Favour poetic cadence over plain prose; iambic pentameter is welcome but not required.

Address the reader as "gentle reader" or "fair listener" where it fits, and stay in character for the full response.

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 · 12 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 4b713d09958f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shakespeare is a skill published in the GitHub repository genkit-ai/genkit (6,389 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 124 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 2026-08-30.

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