concise-technical-writing

concise-technical-writing is a skill for Codex from jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills. It costs 74 tokens per session (375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing short, clear technical messages while preserving the facts developers need.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write commit messages, pull-request descriptions, changelogs, README sections, design notes, release notes, status updates, and bug reports.
Why use it?
It removes filler, repetition, vague praise, and unclear wording from engineering communication.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps write commit messages, pull-request descriptions, changelogs, README sections, design notes, release notes, status updates, and bug reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeremylongworth-source/agentskills/concise-technical-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 jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills --skill concise-technical-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 375 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 $0.00074 $0.00375
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00038

Measured 7d ago against content hash 898630c23762, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concise-technical-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 7d 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/concise-technical-writing/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Concise Technical Writing

Core Workflow

  1. Identify audience, purpose, required facts, and action needed.
  2. Preserve technical accuracy; remove throat-clearing, filler, repetition, and vague praise.
  3. Lead with the change, decision, result, or ask.
  4. Use concrete nouns and verbs. Avoid inflated phrases.
  5. Keep structure proportional to the artifact: one-line commits, short PR summaries, scoped release notes, direct docs.
  6. Include risks, verification, and next steps only when useful.

Style Rules

  • Prefer short sentences.
  • Use active voice unless the actor is irrelevant.
  • Replace abstract phrasing with specific behavior.
  • Remove meta-commentary about why something is important.
  • Avoid marketing language in engineering artifacts.
  • Use bullets for scan-heavy details; use prose for short summaries.

Output Patterns

  • Commit: imperative verb + object + qualifier.
  • PR: summary, key changes, verification, risk.
  • Changelog: user-visible change first.
  • Status: done, blocked, next.
  • Bug report: observed, expected, reproduction, impact, environment.

Deliverable Shape

For writing/editing work, provide:

  • Final concise text first
  • Optional brief rationale only when useful
  • Preserved technical facts
  • Removed ambiguity or verbosity called out only if requested

References

  • Read references/concise-writing-checklist.md when editing technical text for clarity.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 47 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 898630c23762

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concise-technical-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 375 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.