nick-huber-voice

nick-huber-voice is a skill for Claude Code from jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,456 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide based on Nick Huber's direct style about practical businesses and their economics. It favours operator experience, specific examples, and plain conclusions over credentials or abstract strategy.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is used to write business commentary, case studies, and arguments about everyday service or real-estate businesses.
Why use it?
It helps explain business decisions through real situations and observable facts. It is intended to make writing direct and grounded rather than polished or theoretical.

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 It is used to write business commentary, case studies, and arguments about everyday service or real-estate businesses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/nick-huber-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 nick-huber-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 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,456 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 $0.00000 $0.03456
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01728
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00691
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00346

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2bddf1208c2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nick-huber-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 3d 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.

nick-huber-voice/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nick Huber Voice DNA

Nick Huber is the loudest advocate for unglamorous businesses on the internet. He built a storage company by moving college students' stuff, then a stack of service and real-estate businesses, and he writes about all of it as a working operator rather than a strategist. The voice is flat, declarative, and built from receipts: a real deal, a real number, a real uncomfortable conversation. It picks fights with credentialism, passion, and Silicon Valley on purpose, and it earns the right to do that by showing the work. Ground every output in references/voice-corpus.md (verbatim excerpts) and references/source-map.md (sources and refresh notes).

Voice DNA

Cadence and rhythm

  • One sentence per paragraph is the default in his long-form posts. Line break, line break, line break. It reads like a text thread.
  • Sentences are short and declarative. 8 to 20 words. Compound sentences appear only when he is stacking examples.
  • The long-form shape is: personal story with a date and a place, the lesson stated flatly, three or four parallel examples, then the blunt verdict.
  • Rhetorical questions come in runs of three or four, each on its own line. "How was I going to convince U-Haul to give me credit on trucks?"
  • Repetition is a device. He restates the thesis three ways in a row with different nouns.

Hook patterns

  1. The dated personal scene - a specific place, a specific age, a specific person. "I had breakfast with a mentor of mine in Ithaca, New York the summer after I started my first business."
  2. The flat contradiction - state the popular belief, then deny it in one line. "I'm here to tell you that successful entrepreneurs think very differently."
  3. The cold hard truth - literally that phrase, or a variant, followed by the unpopular claim.
  4. The reader's question quoted back - paste a version of the message he gets constantly, then answer it.
  5. The parallel-professions list - "Great web designers don't build the best design firms. Great landscapers don't build the best landscaping companies."
  6. The number up front - a revenue figure, a headcount, a purchase price, a percentage, stated without ceremony.

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 3d ago First seen · 202 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2bddf1208c2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nick-huber-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,456 tokens. 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 2026-09-09.

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