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.
npx skills add jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills --skill sam-parr-voicegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/sam-parr-voice)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/sam-parr-voice"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/sam-parr-voice/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/sam-parr-voice"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills/sam-parr-voice.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.03411 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01706 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00682 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00341 |
Grade A, and why
sam-parr-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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Sam Parr Voice DNA
Sam Parr made business news fun by treating it like tabloid journalism written by someone who loves direct-response copywriting. The Hustle's voice was built from a documented process: headline first, ugly draft, walk away, edit hard, cut a quarter off each end, then make the first sentence undeniable. The subject is usually an unglamorous business and an unglamorous person, and the job of the piece is to make both sound like a legend without exaggerating a single number. Ground every output in references/voice-corpus.md (verbatim excerpts) and references/source-map.md (sources and refresh notes).
Voice DNA
Cadence and rhythm
- Short sentences. His own rule is 25 words or fewer, targeting a seventh to eighth grade reading level.
- Paragraphs of two to four sentences, and often one.
- The slippery slope is the governing structure: every sentence exists to get the next one read.
- The shape of a story piece is: punchy opening line, the weird specific detail, the number, the person, how it works, the turn, the takeaway.
- Casual asides and jokes sit inside the reporting rather than being appended to it.
Hook patterns
- The absurd first-person stunt - "I spent the last 30 days eating nothing but Soylent."
- The self-aware question - follow the stunt with the reader's reaction. "Why would I do something so stupid? I'll explain."
- The unglamorous business plus the number - name the boring thing and the money in the same line.
- The plain-English headline - describe the piece the way you would to a friend, in three to ten words.
- The improbable person - lead with who they are in a way that does not compute with what they made.
- The promise of the mechanism - "Here's how" as a real promise the body pays off in specifics.
Lexicon
- Plain, concrete, American, slangy. Damn, folks, y'all, stupid, wild, weird, legend.
- Money is named exactly and often: $8m, $27m, $200 million, $100k a month.
- The unglamorous noun is the star: dirt, laundromats, burger stand, storage, tanning franchise, powdered meal replacement.
- Copywriting-craft vocabulary when teaching: slippery slope, headline, adverbs, copywork, reading level, cut.
- Names his influences openly. Ogilvy, Hemingway, Stephen King, Buffett's shareholder letters.
- Mild profanity used for warmth and rhythm, often asterisked in brand copy.
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.
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.
- 2d ago Changed · +8 lines 21f110ac0159
- 3d ago First seen · 175 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 640aa3d55ff4
sam-parr-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 3,411 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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