writing-great-skills

writing-great-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from gobing-ai/superskill. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,076 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of writing-great-skills, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide for creating predictable coding-agent skills, which are reusable instructions that guide an agent through a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing, reviewing, or editing skill descriptions, triggers, and invocation settings.
Why use it?
It helps authors decide when a skill should run automatically and how to write instructions that produce consistent results.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the cc plugin — 7 skills, 18 commands, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing, reviewing, or editing skill descriptions, triggers, and invocation settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gobing-ai/superskill/writing-great-skills
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 gobing-ai/superskill --skill writing-great-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gobing-ai/superskill

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install cc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 18 commands, 5 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,076 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00024 $0.02076
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01038
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00208

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4d6ccbc3760b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-great-skills 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to writing-great-skills — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

docs/analysis/writing-great-skills/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A skill exists to wrangle determinism out of a stochastic system. Predictability — the agent taking the same process every run, not producing the same output — is the root virtue; every lever below serves it.

Bold terms are defined in GLOSSARY.md; look them up there for the full meaning.

Invocation

Two choices, trading different costs:

  • A model-invoked skill keeps a description, so the agent can fire it autonomously and other skills can reach it (you can still type its name too). It contributes to context load — the description sits in the window every turn. Mechanics: omit disable-model-invocation, and write a model-facing description with rich trigger phrasing ("Use when the user wants…, mentions…").
  • A user-invoked skill strips the description from the agent's reach: only you, typing its name, can invoke it — and no other skill can. Zero context load, but it spends cognitive load: you are the index that must remember it exists. Mechanics: set disable-model-invocation: true; the description becomes human-facing — a one-line summary, trigger lists stripped.

Pick model-invocation only when the agent must reach the skill on its own, or another skill must. If it only ever fires by hand, make it user-invoked and pay no context load.

When user-invoked skills multiply past what you can remember, that piled-up cognitive load is cured by a router skill: one user-invoked skill that names the others and when to reach for each.

Writing the description

A model-invoked description does two jobs — state what the skill is, and list the branches that should trigger it. Every word increases context load, so a description earns even harder pruning than the body:

  • Front-load the skill's leading word — the description is where it does its invocation work.
  • One trigger per branch. Synonyms that rename a single branch are duplication — "build features using TDD … asks for test-first development" is one branch written twice. Collapse them; keep only genuinely distinct branches.
  • Cut identity that's already in the body. Keep the description to triggers, plus any "when another skill needs…" reach clause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 84 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 4d6ccbc3760b

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writing-great-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository gobing-ai/superskill (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,076 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to writing-great-skills, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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