temp-draft

A workflow for writing a draft in a temporary file opened in your text editor instead of displaying the full draft in chat.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for collaborative writing such as articles, messages, or other drafts that do not yet have a permanent file.
Why use it?
It makes long drafts easier to edit, save, and review without filling the conversation with working text.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the collab-tools plugin — 3 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jtsternberg/claude-plugins/temp-draft
Any agent
npx skills add jtsternberg/claude-plugins --skill temp-draft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jtsternberg/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install collab-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,516 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.01516
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00152

Measured 3d ago against content hash 77dade576b72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

temp-draft 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.

plugins/collab-tools/skills/temp-draft/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

temp-draft

The user prefers to collaborate on long-form drafts in their own text editor rather than read them inline in chat. This skill exists to break the default habit of pasting drafted content directly into responses — which is hard to edit, hard to save, eats context, and loses formatting / syntax highlighting.

When to use this

Use this skill when:

  • The user invoked /temp-draft directly.
  • The user explicitly said something like "draft this in editor", "open it in a temp file", "let's draft collaboratively", "put the draft in /tmp", or any equivalent phrasing.

Don't use this skill for:

  • Quick one-line answers or short replies that belong inline.
  • Edits to existing files in the project — use Edit / Write against the real file.
  • Brainstorming or back-and-forth conversation where the user is reading along.
  • Code or docs that have an obvious real destination (e.g., a function in src/, a section in README.md). The temp file is for drafts without a permanent home yet.

When in doubt, ask the user once whether they want the draft in chat or in /tmp. Guessing wrong wastes a turn either way.

Procedure

  1. Pick a descriptive filename. Format: /tmp/collab-tools/<short-slug>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.<ext>.

    • All drafts live under /tmp/collab-tools/ so the companion promote-draft skill can find them. Create the directory if it doesn't exist: mkdir -p /tmp/collab-tools.
    • <short-slug> is 3-5 kebab-case words describing the draft. Match the content, not generic ("blog-post-fence-fences", not "draft").
    • <ext> matches the content type: .md for prose, plans, notes, structured docs; .txt for plain unformatted text; .html, .py, .ts, etc. for code.
    • Examples:
      • /tmp/collab-tools/cold-email-to-acme-2026-05-28.md
      • /tmp/collab-tools/refactor-plan-auth-module-2026-05-28.md
      • /tmp/collab-tools/talk-outline-react-conf-2026-05-28.md
  2. Write the draft to that file using the Write tool. The file is the deliverable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 3d ago First seen · 92 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 77dade576b72

Subscribe to this mod's changes

temp-draft is a skill published in the GitHub repository jtsternberg/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,516 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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