us-business-english

us-business-english is a skill for Claude Code from jezweb/claude-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for professional business communication aimed at American readers, including US spelling and date formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting or editing business communication for an American audience.
Why use it?
It helps keep emails, proposals, web copy, and other business writing consistent with American conventions and a direct professional tone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the writing plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands shipped together

not rated 1.0krepo +6 2mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 74 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when drafting or editing business communication for an American audience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english
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 jezweb/claude-skills --skill us-business-english
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english/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.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jezweb/claude-skills/us-business-english.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,009 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 15 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.02009
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01005
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00201

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9150110dec95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

us-business-english 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 9d 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.

plugins/writing/skills/us-business-english/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

US Business English

Professional and direct. Confident without being pushy. Friendly without being sloppy. Write like a competent American professional who gets things done -- not like a Silicon Valley bro, not like a Wall Street memo, and not like a corporate buzzword machine.

Spelling (EN-US)

Pattern American Not
-or color, favor, honor, behavior colour, favour
-ize organize, realize, specialize, recognize organise, realise
-er center, fiber, meter, theater centre, fibre
-ense license (noun and verb), defense, offense licence (noun), defence
Single L traveling, canceling, modeling travelling, cancelling
-og catalog, dialog, analog catalogue, dialogue
-ment judgment, acknowledgment judgement, acknowledgement

Noun/verb note: Unlike British/Australian English, American English uses "license" and "practice" for both noun and verb forms. No split needed.

Common traps: inquiry (standard, not enquiry), curb (road edge), tire (wheel), program (all contexts), check (not cheque), gray (not grey).

Date format: Month Day, Year -- January 15, 2026. Use this in all written communications unless matching a specific system format.

Tone Ladder

Match formality to context. Default to "professional friendly" -- clear and personable.

Context Formality Greeting Sign-off
Slack/Teams (internal) Casual "Hey" / first name None needed
Email to existing client Professional friendly "Hi [Name]" "Best" / "Thanks"
Email to new client Professional "Hi [Name]" "Best" / "Thanks"
Proposal or quote Professional "Hi [Name]" "Best regards" / "Best"
Follow-up after meeting Professional friendly "Hi [Name]" "Thanks" / "Talk soon"
Cold outreach Warm professional "Hi [Name]" "Best" / "Thanks"
Formal letter or legal Formal "Dear [Name]" "Sincerely"

Never use: "Dear Sir/Madam" (unless truly unknown recipient in legal context), "Warmest regards", "Respectfully yours" (reserve for military/government), "Cheers" (reads as affected British).

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 9d ago First seen · 169 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 9150110dec95

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us-business-english is a skill published in the GitHub repository jezweb/claude-skills (1,001 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,009 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.

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