s4h-linguistics

s4h-linguistics is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,159 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An entry point to a set of language-analysis tools that examine how words frame choices, carry emotional or political associations, imply unstated meanings, and change over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study framing, connotations, implied meaning, or changes in how terms are used.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right kind of language analysis when the issue is not just what words say, but how they shape interpretation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to study framing, connotations, implied meaning, or changes in how terms are used.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-linguistics
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 human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-linguistics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,159 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
  • 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 $0.00082 $0.01159
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00116

Measured 9d ago against content hash ea66952c61d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-linguistics 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.

skills/s4h-linguistics/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linguistics

Examines language as a system of meaning — not just what words say, but what they frame, imply, carry, and do over time. Diagnoses what kind of linguistic analysis is needed and applies the right tool.

Which tool fits

You need to... Tool
Identify how the frame shapes what options are visible framing
Map the emotional and political freight a word carries connotation
Analyze what is implied rather than said pragmatics
Track how a word's meaning has shifted — or is shifting semantic-drift

Routing Decision

Framing check: Confirm the language situation in focus before routing. State what you've identified — the text, term, or communication at stake and the linguistic dimension you're examining — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the language situation and the specific dimension to analyze]. Is that right?"

  • Header: "Framing"

  • Options:

    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding
  • The way an issue is described is shaping what solutions feel possible → framing

  • A specific word or phrase carries freight beyond its dictionary definition → connotation

  • What someone said is less important than what they meant or implied → pragmatics

  • A word's meaning is shifting, contested, or has changed over time → semantic-drift

  • Unclear → framing; understanding the frame usually reveals which other tools are needed

Confirm Direction

After diagnosing which tool fits, use the AskUserQuestion tool to confirm direction. Construct the question dynamically to include your diagnosis:

  • Question: "My read: [diagnosed tool] — [one sentence on why it fits]. How would you like to proceed?"
  • Header: "Direction"
  • Options:
    • Yes, run that tool — Execute the diagnosed skill immediately using the context already provided
    • Show all options — List every skill in this category with one-line descriptions
    • Quick version — Run a lighter-weight alternative if one exists for this situation
    • Re-diagnose — Revisit the situation description for a different read

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A ea66952c61d8

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s4h-linguistics is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,159 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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