writing

writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 67 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for editing and rewriting prose in a natural, direct style.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise documentation, marketing copy, emails, articles, and other written material.
Why use it?
It helps remove vague wording, unnecessary jargon, and writing patterns that make text sound machine-generated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps revise documentation, marketing copy, emails, articles, and other written material.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iliaal/whetstone/writing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/iliaal/whetstone/writing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/iliaal/whetstone/writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iliaal/whetstone/writing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00067 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00094

Measured 8d ago against content hash b269f001bc8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing 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 8d 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.

distillery/generated-skills/writing/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Human Writing

Core Principles

  • Active voice: "We shipped the fix" not "The fix was shipped"
  • Specific over vague: "Cut reporting from 4 hours to 15 minutes" not "Save time"
  • Simple words: "Use" not "utilize", "help" not "facilitate", "start" not "initiate"
  • Positive form: Say what it is, not what it isn't — "Ignore" not "Do not pay attention to"
  • Confident: Cut "almost", "very", "really", "quite", "arguably"
  • Concrete: Name the thing, state the number, cite the source
  • Omit needless words: "Because" not "due to the fact that"; "Now" not "at this point in time"; "Can" not "has the ability to"
  • Use contractions: "don't", "won't", "it's", "they're" — uncontracted forms are a major AI tell

AI Patterns — Kill on Sight

Vocabulary: delve, crucial, pivotal, foster, leverage, tapestry, testament, underscore, vibrant, landscape (abstract), interplay, multifaceted, enhance, enduring, garner, showcase, Additionally, seamless, robust, cutting-edge, groundbreaking, nestled, renowned

Structural tells:

  • Rule of three: forced triads ("streamline, optimize, and enhance")
  • Negative parallelism: "It's not just X — it's Y"
  • Superficial -ing phrases: "ensuring reliability", "showcasing features"
  • Copula avoidance: "serves as", "stands as", "boasts" — use "is", "has"
  • Synonym cycling: four names for the same thing in four sentences
  • False ranges: "from X to Y" where X and Y aren't on a meaningful scale
  • Formulaic challenges: "Despite X, Y continues to thrive"

Formatting tells:

  • Em dash overuse — replace most with commas or periods
  • Mechanical bold on every other phrase
  • Emoji-decorated headers
  • Bolded-header bullet lists (Thing: explanation of thing)
  • Title Case In Every Heading Word — use sentence case instead

Filler (compress or delete):

  • "In order to" → "To"
  • "Due to the fact that" → "Because"
  • "It is important to note that" → delete
  • Generic conclusions: "The future looks bright" → state the actual plan
  • Excessive hedging: "It could potentially possibly be argued" → "The policy may affect outcomes"

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 8d ago First seen · 75 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A b269f001bc8b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (33 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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