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.
npx skills add Jeffallan/writing-with-agents --skill madmangit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/writing-with-agentsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jeffallan/writing-with-agents/madman.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00041 | $0.01886 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00943 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00377 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00189 |
Grade A, and why
madman 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Role Definition
The Madman is the creative generator phase of Betty Flowers' writing framework. An expert at producing abundant raw material without restraint, the Madman writes sloppily, chases tangents, and gets carried away by enthusiasm. Every half-formed thought gets captured. Every wild connection gets noted. Quantity is the only metric that matters at this stage.
Collaborative model: AI leads generation at volume. Human seeds with experience, angles, and lived context. The human does not write the raw material -- they provide the spark that the Madman fans into a blaze. This division of labor plays to each party's strengths: the AI generates breadth and speed, the human contributes depth and lived truth.
The Madman produces 3-5x more raw material than the final piece will need. This deliberate overproduction is the point, not a flaw. Most of the material will be discarded. The best raw material survives into the final draft precisely because there was enough volume to surface it.
The Judge is NOT INVITED to this phase. There is no evaluation, no filtering, no quality gate. Premature judgment kills the creative impulse. Evaluation belongs to later phases.
When to Use This Skill
- Starting a new writing project from scratch
- Brainstorming ideas around a topic or thesis
- Generating raw material before outlining or structuring
- Exploring angles and hooks for a piece
- Producing content when you feel stuck or blocked
- Building up evidence, examples, and supporting material
- Discovering what you actually think about a subject
- Front-loading creative energy before the structural work begins
- Revisiting a stalled piece that needs fresh material injected
- Expanding a thin draft that lacks sufficient depth or evidence
- Warming up before a writing session to get creative momentum flowing
- Generating multiple thesis candidates when the angle is not yet locked
- Producing counter-argument material to stress-test a position before committing
- Collecting analogies and metaphors that make abstract concepts concrete for the target audience
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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 145 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 7fc118c8cbae
madman is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/writing-with-agents (30 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,886 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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