ai-prompting

ai-prompting is a skill for Claude Code from jasonkneen/kiro. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of techniques for giving clearer instructions to AI coding assistants. It covers adding context, breaking work into stages, refining requests, and checking results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning features with an AI assistant, improving weak responses, or shortening the cycle between asking for code and reviewing the result.
Why use it?
It helps reduce inconsistent or inaccurate AI-generated work by making requests more specific and easier to verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the kiro plugin — 8 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning features with an AI assistant, improving weak responses, or shortening the cycle between asking for code and reviewing the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasonkneen/kiro/ai-prompting
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jasonkneen/kiro --skill ai-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasonkneen/kiro

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kiro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,125 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 $0.00039 $0.02125
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01063
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00213

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0526b557a643, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-prompting 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/ai-prompting/SKILL.md · 393 lines

How it starts

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AI Prompting Strategies

Master the art of communicating with AI coding assistants to get better results faster. These strategies are optimized for spec-driven development but apply broadly to AI collaboration.

When to Use This Skill

Use these prompting strategies when:

  • Working with Claude Code, Cursor, or other AI assistants
  • Creating specs through AI collaboration
  • Getting inconsistent or low-quality AI responses
  • Need to improve AI output accuracy
  • Want faster iteration cycles

Core Strategies

Strategy 1: Context-First Prompting

Always provide sufficient context before making requests.

Poor Approach:

Create requirements for a user profile feature.

Better Approach:

I'm working on a web application for a fitness tracking platform. We need to add user profile functionality where users can manage their personal information and fitness goals.

Context:
- Technology: React frontend, Node.js backend
- User base: Health-conscious individuals, age 18-65
- Key constraint: Must comply with GDPR for EU users
- Integration: Will connect with existing authentication system

Please help me create requirements for the user profile feature.

Why It Works:

  • Provides domain context for better decisions
  • Identifies technical constraints early
  • Clarifies compliance requirements
  • Enables more relevant suggestions

Strategy 2: Phased Interaction

Work through spec phases sequentially. Complete each phase before moving to the next.

Phase 1 - Requirements:

Let's start with the requirements phase for [feature name].

Current situation: [describe current state]
Problem to solve: [describe the problem]
Users affected: [describe user types]
Success criteria: [how we'll know it works]

Please help me develop comprehensive requirements using the EARS format.

Phase 2 - Design (after requirements approved):

Now that we have clear requirements, let's create the technical design.

Requirements summary: [key requirements]
Technical context: [architecture, frameworks, patterns]
Constraints: [performance, scalability, security]

Please propose a technical design that addresses these requirements.

Read the full file on GitHub · 393 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. 11d ago First seen · 393 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 0526b557a643

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ai-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasonkneen/kiro (746 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,125 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 2026-08-30.

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