writing-skills

writing-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from heymegabyte/claude-skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,304 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for creating, editing, and checking coding-agent skills before they are released. A skill is a reusable set of instructions for an agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing new skills, updating existing ones, and verifying them before they are published.
Why use it?
It helps ensure new or changed skills are usable and behave as intended before deployment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 29 skills, 53 commands, 26 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for writing new skills, updating existing ones, and verifying them before they are published.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-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 heymegabyte/claude-skills --skill writing-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heymegabyte/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 53 commands, 26 agents.

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 writing-skills

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-skills/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-skills)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-skills/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 writing-skills

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heymegabyte/claude-skills/writing-skills.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,304 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 $0.00020 $0.01304
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00130

Measured 12d ago against content hash 40a39cf2694f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (render-graphs.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

20-superpowers/writing-skills/SKILL.md · 91 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

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 12d ago First seen · 91 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 40a39cf2694f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository heymegabyte/claude-skills (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,304 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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