tutorial-writing

tutorial-writing is a skill for Codex from jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills. It costs 50 tokens per session (292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step guide for helping a particular learner complete one concrete task. It includes prerequisites, expected results, verification checks, and troubleshooting notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write developer guides, user how-tos, operator runbooks, quickstarts, and learning paths that end with a working result or finished artifact.
Why use it?
It prevents walkthroughs from becoming unfocused reference manuals and helps readers understand both what to do and how to confirm that it worked.

Skill for Codex

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

Good fit Use it to write developer guides, user how-tos, operator runbooks, quickstarts, and learning paths that end with a working result or finished artifact.

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

Made for: Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for tutorial-writing

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 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00050 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00029

Measured 8d ago against content hash 887cdd6e41df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tutorial-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 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.

skills/tutorial-writing/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Tutorial Writing

Core Workflow

  1. Identify the learner, starting point, outcome, prerequisites, and time budget.
  2. Choose one concrete task and avoid turning the tutorial into a full reference manual.
  3. Write steps that explain what to do, why it matters, and how to verify the result.
  4. Include expected output, common failure points, and recovery notes where useful.
  5. Link to reference docs for deeper details instead of overloading the path.
  6. End with a finished artifact, working state, or next practical task.

Safety Rules

  • Do not include unverified commands or screenshots as proof.
  • Do not ask users to paste secrets into examples.
  • Do not hide destructive or cost-incurring steps inside a tutorial.

Deliverable Shape

For tutorials, provide:

  • Goal and audience
  • Prerequisites
  • Starting state
  • Step-by-step walkthrough
  • Expected result
  • Verification checks
  • Troubleshooting notes
  • Next task

References

  • Read references/tutorial-writing-checklist.md when writing or reviewing a tutorial or quickstart.
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. 8d ago First seen · 45 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 887cdd6e41df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tutorial-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeremylongworth-source/AgentSkills (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 292 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 2026-09-03.

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