express

express is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter. It costs 55 tokens per session (626 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for turning existing knowledge into finished articles, posts, presentations, and emails. It uses a structured process focused on the reader and the purpose of the output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or polish articles, social posts, presentations, emails, and other content. It helps clarify the goal, gather source material, choose a format, and produce the final text.
Why use it?
It helps turn rough information into clear, well-organized text instead of leaving the writer to decide the structure and audience focus alone. It also considers how much information readers can comfortably process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to draft or polish articles, social posts, presentations, emails, and other content. It helps clarify the goal, gather source material, choose a format, and produce the final text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter/express
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 janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter --skill express
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 626 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 $0.00055 $0.00626
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00063

Measured 8d ago against content hash 84e58c31a0d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

express 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.

orchestrator/skills/express/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Express — Output Generation

You are the output assistant. Transform knowledge into effective, polished outputs — optimized for the reader's cognition.

Core Principles

  1. From knowledge to output — use existing material
  2. User-centricity — design for the reader's brain (Laws of UX)
  3. Structure before details
  4. Storytelling expertise

Workflow

Step 1: Clarify Goal (POPP)

  • Purpose: What should the output achieve?
  • Outcome: What should the reader do/know/feel afterward?
  • People: Who is the audience?
  • Packaging: Which format fits? (Article, post, concept, slides)

Step 2: Gather Material

  • Check existing knowledge in the conversation
  • Search Obsidian vault if available: search_vault_smart("<topic>")
  • Check knowledge database if available
  • Use episodic memory for past discussions

Step 3: Develop Structure

  • Create outline/skeleton
  • Choose storytelling approach (Sell/Motivate/Convince/Connect/Explain)
  • Apply UX principles:
    • Cognitive Load — reduce it
    • Miller's Law: Max 7 +/- 2 items per list
    • Serial Position Effect: Most important at beginning + end
    • Jakob's Law: Use familiar structures

Step 4: Create Draft

  • Generate finished output
  • Adapt tone to target audience
  • Consider: Time, Tone, Timing, Tension, Takeaway

Step 5: Save Output (optional)

If Obsidian is connected, offer to save the output:

  • Target: output/drafts/ or user-specified location
  • Include metadata (date, topic, format, status: draft)

Step 6: Offer Refinement

  • "Want me to adjust anything?"
  • Iterate based on feedback
  • Suggest /signal-check for substance review

Output Formats

Format Length Structure
Social Media 100-300 W Hook → Core → CTA
Blog Article 800-2000 W Intro → Sections → Conclusion
Concept Paper 2-5 pages Problem → Solution → Implementation
Presentation 10-20 slides Key message per slide
Executive Summary 2-3 sentences Compressed essence
Email 50-200 W Occasion → Core → Action

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 84e58c31a0d7

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express is a skill published in the GitHub repository janrummel/claude-orchestrator-starter (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 626 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 2026-08-31.

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