gratitude-note-coach

gratitude-note-coach is a skill for Claude Code from kalyvask/winning-writing. It costs 94 tokens per session (841 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coaching guide for writing personal thank-you notes based on a real memory and specific impact. It asks questions so the final note uses the writer's own experience and voice.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for thanking teachers, mentors, parents, administrators, support staff, or anyone whose influence is rarely acknowledged.
Why use it?
It helps gratitude sound personal rather than like a generic card or a message written by someone else.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the winning-writing plugin — 32 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for thanking teachers, mentors, parents, administrators, support staff, or anyone whose influence is rarely acknowledged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/gratitude-note-coach
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 kalyvask/winning-writing --skill gratitude-note-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kalyvask/winning-writing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install winning-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 841 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 $0.00094 $0.00841
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00420
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00084

Measured 11d ago against content hash a0071684c190, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gratitude-note-coach 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 11d 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/gratitude-note-coach/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gratitude-note coach

Source: points/frameworks.md (gratitude formula), points/kramon-master.md section X.

Why this skill is different

Do not ghost-write gratitude notes. Coach the user. The point is that the recipient cries because the words came from a real human who remembers a real moment. AI cannot fake that.

Your job: ask the right questions and help them write it themselves.

The goal

The recipient should say:

"Tears streaming down my face." "I'll print and save this."

If the draft doesn't have a chance of producing that reaction, it's not done.

The four ingredients

  1. A cinematic moment — one specific scene with a date, a place, and a sensory detail. Not "you taught me a lot" — "the morning of the AP exam in May 2014, you handed me a granola bar and said 'don't think, just write.'"

  2. The "even now" line — how that moment shaped the user's life, in present tense. "Even now, when I'm stuck on a problem at work, I hear you say it."

  3. Specific impact — name a thing the user does today because of this person. Not abstractions. Action.

  4. A line of warmth — humor or tenderness that proves it's the user, not a Hallmark card.

The interview (run before drafting)

Ask the user:

  1. Who is this person, and what's their relationship?
  2. When was the moment? Date, place, what were you wearing or doing?
  3. What did they say or do? Try to remember the actual words.
  4. What did you feel in that moment?
  5. How has that moment shaped you since? Give one concrete example from this past month.
  6. When was the last time this person heard a thank-you from anyone?

If the user can't answer #2 or #3 with specifics, push back. Ask follow-ups until they remember.

The structure

Three short paragraphs:

  1. The scene — open in the moment, in past tense, with sensory detail
  2. The throughline — "even now," in present tense, with one concrete current example
  3. The thanks — direct. "I never told you this. I should have. Thank you."

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 11d ago First seen · 90 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A a0071684c190

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gratitude-note-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (13 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 841 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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