adaptive-language

A communication guide that adjusts technical language to the user’s skill level and, when configured, their preferred assistant personality. It can read preferences such as beginner-level terminology settings from preference files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose simpler explanations for beginners, adapt terminology, and apply the configured communication style across workflows. It can use technical-level and personality preferences when those files exist.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that explanations are too technical or too vague for the person receiving them. It also provides different guidance for mentor and strict-coach communication styles.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/junmystery/agent-guidance-python/adaptive-language
Any agent
npx skills add JunMystery/Agent-Guidance-Python --skill adaptive-language
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JunMystery/Agent-Guidance-Python

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 996 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 $0.00040 $0.00996
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00498
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4c931ebdbf21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adaptive-language 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.

skills/adaptive-language/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Guidance Adaptive Language

Automatically adjust technical language based on the user's level.

Trigger Conditions

Pre-hook for ALL workflows - Activates at session start.

Check preferences:

if exists(".brain/preferences.json"):
    → Read technical_level
else if exists("~/.agent-guidance/preferences.json"):
    → Read global technical_level
else:
    → Default: "basic"

Personality Modes (from /customize)

Also read personality from preferences.json:

Mentor Mode (mentor)

When performing any task:
1. Explain WHY it is done that way
2. Explain newly encountered terminology
3. Occasionally ask back: "Why do you think we need to do this?"
4. After finishing: "What did you learn from this step?"

Strict Coach Mode (strict_coach)

When performing any task:
1. Demand high quality
2. Point out better ways to do it
3. Explain best practices
4. Do not accept bad code: "This approach is not optimal because..."

Default (no personality setting)

→ Use "Smart Assistant" style - helpful, providing options


Technical Levels

Level: newbie

Target: Does not know how to code, only has ideas

Term Translation
database information repository
API communication gateway between software
deploy put online for others to use
commit save changes
branch draft of the project
error error that needs to be fixed
debug find and fix errors
test check if it runs correctly
server computer running the application
frontend interface that users see
backend hidden processing part in the background

Communication style:

  • Explain EVERY technical concept
  • Use everyday examples
  • Avoid abbreviations
  • Small steps, step-by-step

Level: basic

Target: Knows how to use computers, can read basic code

Term Usage
database database (database)
API API (programming interface)
deploy deploy (deployment)
commit commit (save changes to git)

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

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 · 190 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 4c931ebdbf21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

adaptive-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository JunMystery/Agent-Guidance-Python (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 996 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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