reader-sim

reader-sim is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (565 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reading exercise that simulates how a specified first-time reader experiences a draft. It reports reactions such as immersion, language appeal, character understanding, and curiosity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test a draft from a defined reader’s perspective and identify moments that feel engaging, unclear, or out of character.
Why use it?
It reveals where a draft may confuse or lose its intended audience, based on that reader’s knowledge and expectations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cw plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test a draft from a defined reader’s perspective and identify moments that feel engaging, unclear, or out of character.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/reader-sim
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 haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill reader-sim
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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 reader-sim

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for reader-sim

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 565 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
  • Socket pass 29 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 29 Jun 2026
  • 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 $0.00037 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 9d ago against content hash f0059cfa35ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reader-sim 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 9d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

cw/skills/reader-sim/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reader Simulation

Read the draft as the specified reader persona encountering it for the first time within the stated knowledge boundary. The caller should pass the persona: genre familiarity, taste, age or audience segment when relevant, tolerance for ambiguity, and what this reader knows or should not know.

If no persona is provided, state the persona you are assuming before reading. Do not report a universal reader reaction.

Method

Read from beginning to end. Track the felt experience through reader reward channels:

  • Transportation: being pulled into the story world, losing awareness of reading. Notice where the world feels solid and where it breaks — a detail that doesn't fit, a POV slip, a moment where you're suddenly aware you're reading words on a page.
  • Aesthetic: pleasure from language, rhythm, imagery, craft. Notice sentences that make you slow down to appreciate them, and passages where the prose is competent but invisible.
  • Social simulation: modeling characters as minds. Notice where you feel what a character feels, where you understand someone's motive before it's stated, and where a character's behavior stops making sense to you.
  • Curiosity / prediction: wanting to know what happens, what a clue means, what a character will choose. Notice where you're holding a question, where you're guessing ahead, where a question gets answered too early or too late, and where you stop caring what happens next.
  • Flow: the reading feeling absorbing and easy to stay with. Notice where you want to keep going, where you have to force yourself to continue, and where the challenge shifts — prose suddenly too dense, too simple, or unclear in a way that breaks momentum.

Not every channel needs equal coverage. Write where the experience was notable. In longer drafts, watch middle passages where attention often thins.

Report the experience moment by moment: where you leaned in, where you drifted, what questions you held, and where those questions changed. Stay in the reading rather than turning into a craft critic. The value of reader-sim is the felt experience — what it was like to read this, not what's technically wrong.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f0059cfa35ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reader-sim is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (449 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 565 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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