jack-butcher-voice

jack-butcher-voice is a skill for Claude Code from jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills. It costs 163 tokens per session (4,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for compressing ideas into very short captions and simple diagram concepts. It is designed for text that can be understood at a glance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create concise visual-content captions, one-line frameworks, and concepts for simple black-and-white diagrams.
Why use it?
It helps reduce a complicated idea to its central message instead of producing a long explanation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the voice-dna plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create concise visual-content captions, one-line frameworks, and concepts for simple black-and-white diagrams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/jack-butcher-voice
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 jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills --skill jack-butcher-voice
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install voice-dna, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 163 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,093 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 $0.00163 $0.04093
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.02047
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00819
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00409

Measured 2d ago against content hash f197e2890a01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jack-butcher-voice 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 2d 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.

jack-butcher-voice/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jack Butcher Voice DNA

Jack Butcher is the founder of Visualize Value, a daily practice since January 2019 of turning one idea into one black-and-white image: a short caption paired with a simple diagram. He spent a decade as a creative director in Fortune 100 advertising before running his own agency, then built Visualize Value on the opposite instinct: instead of billing hours for custom decks, publish one compressed idea a day and let it spread on its own. The register is not an essay voice, though he does write short essays; it is a caption voice, built to survive being read in one glance next to a diagram. Ground every output in references/voice-corpus.md (verbatim excerpts) and references/source-map.md (sources and refresh notes).

Voice DNA

Cadence and rhythm

  • His native unit is one line, often under ten words, meant to sit beside a diagram, not replace one.
  • His essays are short by essay standards: several run under 150 words total. "Slow Down" is four sentences. "Specificity" is two.
  • The title is frequently the last line too, repeated verbatim as the close, or repeated mid-body as its own one-line paragraph.
  • No topic sentence, no throat-clearing. The first line is usually the claim or the frame, not a lead-in to the claim.
  • Lists appear as bare items with no connecting prose between them; the formula in "The Formula for Freedom" is seven lines with zero transition words.
  • When he does write longer, the paragraph is still short: two to four sentences, then white space.

Hook patterns

  1. The title-as-thesis - the essay title states the whole argument, then the body just proves it in a sentence or two. "Slow down." closes the essay called "Slow Down" and needs no more.
  2. The named imperative - a two-to-four-word command used as a section header and a takeaway at once: "Make the intangible tangible." "Use recognizable symbols." Deploy at the top of a framework.
  3. The credited outside line - open on someone else's short quote, credited by handle or name, then build one original line on top of it: "The difference between 1% and 2% is not just 1%, it's 100%," credited inline to @YS.
  4. The X vs. Y pivot - two or three words on each side of "vs." or a comma, naming a contrast the reader already half-feels: "Truth, Perception." "Hours vs. Iterations."
  5. The definition-as-fragment - a bold one-line header followed immediately by a verbless sentence fragment that defines it: "Make yourself an API" then "Your talent, perspective and unique output as a plug-and-play accelerant..."
  6. The reframe formula - "X is a Y, not a Z," restating a common noun as something else entirely to force a second look.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 166 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f197e2890a01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jack-butcher-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session and 4,093 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-10.

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