literate-programming

literate-programming is a skill for Claude Code from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,415 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A writing-guidance skill for creating or substantially changing code so that its structure and documentation explain the reasoning to human readers.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing source files, functions, and types with narrative introductions, reasoning-based comments, and an order chosen for readability.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar code easier to understand by putting the story and design decisions before implementation details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-literacy-superpowers plugin — 41 skills, 17 commands, 20 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for writing source files, functions, and types with narrative introductions, reasoning-based comments, and an order chosen for readability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/literate-programming
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 Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill literate-programming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-literacy-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 17 commands, 20 agents, 3 hooks.

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 literate-programming

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 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,415 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 unknown 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 $0.00052 $0.01415
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00566
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00142

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7c94cb9f1992, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literate-programming 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 1mo 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.

ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/literate-programming/SKILL.md · 148 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 7c94cb9f1992

Subscribe to this mod's changes

literate-programming is a skill published in the GitHub repository Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers (117 stars, last pushed 8d ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,415 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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