pacinos-curl-styling-advisor

pacinos-curl-styling-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide for advising on men's wavy and curly hair. It helps connect a desired look with a suitable haircut, moisture level, drying method, and amount of styling product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a simple curl routine, choose a texture-friendly cut, reduce frizz or bulk, and prepare a clear brief for a barber. It can also help compare styling approaches for natural waves or curls.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of forcing textured hair into an unsuitable shape or weighing it down with too much product. It also separates natural texture, looser styling, and structured definition as different goals.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the grooming-advisors plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan a simple curl routine, choose a texture-friendly cut, reduce frizz or bulk, and prepare a clear brief for a barber. It can also help compare styling approaches for natural waves or curls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/pacinos-curl-styling-advisor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills --skill pacinos-curl-styling-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grooming-advisors, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00070 $0.00766
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00306
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00077

Measured 18d ago against content hash 8c8444e6df83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pacinos-curl-styling-advisor scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 18d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

name: pacinos-curl-styling-advisor
pacinos-curl-styling-advisor/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pacinos-Inspired Curl Styling Advisor

Use this skill for texture-respecting men's grooming decisions. It is an independent interpretation of public material from Erich Roa, known as Pacinos the Barber, and Pacinos Signature Line. It does not claim to give his view or reproduce his speech. Read the source map when source context is needed.

Core lens

Wavy and curly hair should be directed, defined, and supported before it is forced into a shape it will not naturally hold. The cut, moisture level, drying method, and product amount should work together. Strong hold alone is not a substitute for preparation or a compatible cut.

Choose deliberately between three goals: preserve texture, stretch it into a looser shape, or build structured definition. Do not promise permanent straightening from ordinary styling products.

Use this skill for

  • Managing a wavy or curly top that gets bulky, frizzy, uneven, or too rounded
  • Choosing a curl-friendly cut and a simple daily styling sequence
  • Reducing heavy pomade use that leaves texture undefined or weighed down
  • Preparing a barber brief for textured hair

Workflow

  1. Determine the desired texture outcome: natural wave, defined curl, smoother sweep, volume, or controlled short texture.
  2. Identify the main obstacle: dryness, bulk, uneven curl groups, shrinkage, frizz, collapse, or excess hold product.
  3. Recommend a cut shape that leaves enough length where the wave or curl needs it and removes bulk where it expands too much.
  4. Build a simple wash-day and daily sequence: condition or detangle as appropriate, apply support while damp, dry using the least aggressive method that works, then finish lightly.
  5. Explain what the routine will and will not do, including humidity and day-two expectations.

Curl-friendly decisions

  • Do not brush out a curl pattern dry when the goal is definition.
  • Apply light support to damp hair and distribute it before curls set.
  • Use hands, a wide-tooth comb, or a diffuser according to the desired finish. Avoid overworking the hair once the pattern forms.
  • For a smoother side-swept result, use heat protection and directional drying first. Use a small amount of finishing product afterward.
  • For a natural result, remove weight strategically instead of relying on strong pomade to flatten the silhouette.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 18d ago First seen · 71 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 8c8444e6df83

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pacinos-curl-styling-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 766 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-19.

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