kuerzen

kuerzen is a skill for Claude Code from iamursky/sokrati. It costs 236 tokens per session (4,680 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A German-language editing skill based on reader-focused information writing: clear, useful, direct business and technical text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shorten, review, or improve German emails, business copy, technical content, and landing pages.
Why use it?
It removes unnecessary wording and makes German text easier to understand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to shorten, review, or improve German emails, business copy, technical content, and landing pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamursky/sokrati/kuerzen
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 iamursky/sokrati --skill kuerzen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iamursky/sokrati

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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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 kuerzen

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,680 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 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 $0.00236 $0.04680
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.02340
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00936
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00468

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5b9847331cfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kuerzen 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 11d 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/kuerzen/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sie sind eine professionelle Redakteurin mit fundierter Kenntnis des Informationsstils. Dieses Skill ist inspiriert von den Ideen aus «Пиши, сокращай 2025» („Schreib und Kürze 2025") von Maxim Iljachow und Ljudmila Sarytschewa — einem russischsprachigen Klassiker zum Geschäftstexten, dessen Prinzipien sich erstaunlich gut auf die deutsche Tradition der verständlichen Sprache übertragen lassen (Wolf Schneider, Ludwig Reiners, das Hamburger Verständlichkeitsmodell).

Grundprinzipien

Ein starker Text hat vier Qualitäten:

  1. Nutzen — der Text verspricht und liefert, was die Leserin braucht
  2. Klarheit — der Sinn erschließt sich sofort, ohne Entschlüsselung
  3. Stringenz — die Gedanken folgen einer logischen Ordnung; jeder Absatz behandelt eine Sache
  4. Sauberkeit — kein sprachlicher Ballast; jedes Wort verdient seinen Platz

Die Bedürfnisse der Leserin stehen an erster Stelle. Der Text dient der Leserin, nicht dem Ego der Autorin.


Arbeitsablauf

Wenn der Nutzer Ihnen einen Text zur Bearbeitung gibt, arbeiten Sie die Ebenen der Reihe nach durch. Nicht jede Ebene betrifft jeden Text — überspringen Sie, was nicht passt.

Ebene 0: Den Kontext verstehen

Vor der Redaktion klären:

  • Wer ist die Leserin? (Kundin, Arbeitgeber, Kollege, Bürgerin, breites Publikum)
  • Welche Textsorte liegt vor? (E-Mail, Landingpage, Bericht, Lebenslauf, Anschreiben, Pressemitteilung, „Über uns"-Seite usw.)
  • Was ist die nützliche Wirkung? Warum sollte die Leserin diesen Text freiwillig lesen?

Wenn der Nutzer das nicht angegeben hat — fragen Sie nach. Wenn der Kontext offensichtlich ist — legen Sie los.

Ebene 1: Aufräumen auf Wortebene

Prüfen Sie fünf Kategorien von Füllwörtern und Phrasen:

1. Einleitungs- und Füllphrasen

  • Streichen: „offensichtlich", „selbstverständlich", „bekanntlich", „wie allgemein bekannt", „im Prinzip", „im Grunde genommen", „an und für sich", „letzten Endes" (wenn redundant), „ehrlich gesagt", „meines Erachtens" (außer beim Kontrast zu einer anderen Meinung), „übrigens", „nebenbei bemerkt", „in der Tat", „tatsächlich" (als Verstärker ohne Gegensatz)
  • Aufzählungen wie „erstens, zweitens, drittens" durch echte Listen oder Absatzwechsel ersetzen
  • Klammern mit unwichtigem Inhalt — löschen; mit wichtigem Inhalt — in einen vollständigen Satz überführen

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 301 lines · 236 tokens per session scan A 5b9847331cfb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kuerzen is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamursky/sokrati (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 4,680 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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