s4h-writing-audience-calibration

s4h-writing-audience-calibration is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,590 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide that adjusts explanations for a particular reader’s knowledge, concerns, and relationship to the subject.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite documentation, explanations, or other content for a defined audience.
Why use it?
It prevents writing from being too technical for beginners or too basic for experts. The substance stays the same while the wording and context change.

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 rewrite documentation, explanations, or other content for a defined audience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-writing-audience-calibration
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-writing-audience-calibration
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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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,590 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 93
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00113 $0.01590
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00795
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00159

Measured 9d ago against content hash d217a32f0460, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-writing-audience-calibration 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-writing-audience-calibration/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing: Audience Calibration

Calibration failures come in two forms: over-explanation and under-explanation. Over-explanation treats experts as novices — it defines terms they know, explains concepts they've mastered, and adds context they don't need. This reads as condescending, and the expert reader disengages. Under-explanation treats novices as experts — it uses jargon without definition, assumes mental models the reader doesn't have, and skips the connections that make the logic followable. This reads as inaccessible, and the novice reader gives up.

The critical insight: calibration does not require changing the substance of what is being communicated. The same analysis can serve a technical expert and a non-technical decision-maker if it is correctly calibrated for each. The facts don't change; the entry point, assumed knowledge, vocabulary, framing, and emphasis all do.

The three dimensions of calibration:

  • Knowledge calibration: What does this reader already know? What can be assumed, what needs brief context, what needs explanation?
  • Stakes calibration: What does this reader care about? The engineer cares about implementation; the product manager cares about user impact; the executive cares about business consequences. Same finding, different emphasis.
  • Relationship calibration: Is the reader expert or novice, friendly or skeptical, time-pressed or engaged? Each requires different structural choices.

Your Process

Step 1: Reader Profile Build a specific reader profile:

  • Knowledge: What domain knowledge, terminology, and conceptual background can be assumed?
  • Role: What is their function — technical, managerial, strategic? What decisions do they make?
  • Stakes: What do they care about most? What is the highest-value question they bring to this content?
  • Relationship: Friendly, skeptical, or neutral? Expert, novice, or intermediate?
  • Time: How much attention do they have? Will they read carefully or scan?

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A d217a32f0460

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s4h-writing-audience-calibration is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,590 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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