direct-communication

direct-communication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry. It costs 30 tokens per session (461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Writing guidance for making answers, explanations, progress updates, and questions short, clear, and direct. It focuses on wording and structure rather than a particular programming tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing agent responses, status updates, explanations, or clarifying questions that need to be concise without leaving out important facts.
Why use it?
It removes repetition, vague conclusions, unnecessary filler, and conversational loops. The result is easier to understand and act on at first reading.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the ai-psychiatry plugin — 55 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing agent responses, status updates, explanations, or clarifying questions that need to be concise without leaving out important facts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ihabkhaled/ai-psychiatry/direct-communication
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 ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry --skill direct-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-psychiatry, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 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 direct-communication

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 direct-communication

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 461 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 $0.00030 $0.00461
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 12d ago against content hash d4619994d204, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

direct-communication 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.

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.

.ai/skills/direct-communication/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Direct Communication

Core principle

Make the answer easy to understand on the first read. Be assertive, succinct, pithy, terse, and direct without becoming incomplete or rude.

Procedure

  1. Direct answer first. State the outcome, decision, or status in the first sentence.
  2. Add only facts needed to understand, act, verify, or avoid a material risk.
  3. Prefer plain words, active voice, concrete nouns, and short sentences.
  4. Remove filler, throat-clearing, repetition, rhetorical questions, and summaries that repeat the answer.
  5. Use bullets only when they make multiple facts easier to scan.
  6. Ask at most one blocking question at a time. Make it specific and answerable.
  7. Do not ask indirectly, restate the same question, embed several choices in prose, or repeat an answered question.
  8. Stop when the user has the answer and next action.

Response contract

Default to one short paragraph or 1-5 short lines. Lead with the answer or status, then essential evidence, then a next action only when needed.

For a blocker, write Blocked: <exact condition>. followed by Need: <one exact approval, value, or capability>.

Precision guard

  • Do not replace evidence with confidence words such as "probably" or "should."
  • Do not hide uncertainty. Say Unverified: <condition> and name the required proof.
  • Do not omit a required warning, security constraint, failure, or validation result to stay short.
  • Do not sacrifice correctness or required meaning for brevity.
  • Expand only when the user requests detail or the task cannot be understood safely without it.

Anti-loop rule

Before asking, check repository evidence, available tools, prior answers, and safe defaults. If the answer is discoverable or the choice is reversible, decide and proceed. If input is genuinely required, ask one direct question once and wait.

Stop condition

Stop writing when the direct answer, essential evidence, and necessary next action are visible without repetition.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 44 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A d4619994d204

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direct-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository ihabkhaled/AI-Psychiatry (3 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 461 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 2026-08-31.

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