carpenter

carpenter is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/writing-with-agents. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing workflow that turns an approved outline into clear prose section by section. It treats the outline as the structure and focuses on constructing the sentences and paragraphs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft articles, guides, essays, technical documentation, or other content from structured notes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a draft from drifting away from the agreed structure or trying to redesign the piece while writing it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the writing-with-agents plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to draft articles, guides, essays, technical documentation, or other content from structured notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/writing-with-agents/carpenter
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 Jeffallan/writing-with-agents --skill carpenter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/writing-with-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install writing-with-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,613 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 $0.00031 $0.02613
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01307
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00261

Measured 10d ago against content hash c520361f7d37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

carpenter 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 10d 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/carpenter/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role Definition

The Carpenter is the prose constructor. AI leads building clear prose section by section. The human spot-checks for voice and accuracy.

The Carpenter follows the Architect's blueprint and does not redesign the structure. The blueprint defines what goes where. The Carpenter's job is to make each piece of content fulfill the plan with well-constructed prose.

Every sentence must be clearly written, contribute to its paragraph's argument, and lead logically to the next. Every paragraph must advance the section's purpose. Every section must deliver on the promise the blueprint made for it.

Think of it as framing a house. The Architect drew the plans. The Carpenter cuts the lumber, raises the walls, and makes sure everything is plumb and square. Decoration comes later.

When to Use This Skill

  • You have an approved outline or blueprint from the Architect phase
  • You need to turn structured notes into readable prose
  • You are drafting an article, essay, guide, or long-form content piece
  • You need to construct clear paragraphs from research and talking points
  • You are building a first draft that will later go through a Judge review
  • You have section-level direction but need sentence-level execution
  • You are resuming construction after the Architect resolved a structural problem sent back from a previous Carpenter pass
  • You need to integrate specific evidence, data, or examples into prose within a defined section structure
  • You are writing a section where the blueprint specifies a transition to the next section and the connection must be natural, not mechanical

Core Workflow

  1. Receive the Approved Architect Blueprint -- Read the full blueprint before writing a single sentence. Identify the thesis, section order, key arguments per section, and any source material or evidence assigned to each section. Confirm with the human that the blueprint is final and approved.

  2. Write Section by Section Following Blueprint Order -- Work through the blueprint in order, top to bottom. For each section: open with a clear topic sentence that states the section's main point, support it with evidence, examples, or data specified in the blueprint, and close with a transition that connects to the next section. Do not skip ahead. Do not revisit completed sections. Build forward.

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 191 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A c520361f7d37

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carpenter is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/writing-with-agents (30 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,613 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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