winning-writing-critic

winning-writing-critic is a skill for Claude Code from kalyvask/winning-writing. It costs 109 tokens per session (1,165 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing review and rewriting skill based on the Winning Writing rubric, a checklist for clarity, audience fit, structure, length, and other qualities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for emails, pitches, opinion pieces, or drafts that combine several writing styles when you want both a critique and a clean rewrite.
Why use it?
It gives a draft a score by category, identifies weak areas, and produces a revised version instead of relying on general feedback.

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 Use it for emails, pitches, opinion pieces, or drafts that combine several writing styles when you want both a critique and a clean rewrite.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kalyvask/winning-writing/winning-writing-critic
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 winning-writing-critic
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 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,165 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00109 $0.01165
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash d615f77f3446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

winning-writing-critic 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 12d 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/winning-writing-critic/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Winning Writing critic

Source: every file in points/. This skill is the orchestrator — it pulls from all of them.

What it does

Given any draft, score it against the full Winning Writing rubric, then rewrite it. The output is two things: a numbered critique and a clean rewrite.

The rubric

Score each dimension 0–10. Anything below 7 needs work.

1. Main point (0–10)

  • Is there a single clear main point?
  • Is it in the first sentence?
  • Could the reader summarize it in 6 words?

2. Audience (0–10)

  • Does the writer know who's reading this?
  • Is it written for them, not at them?
  • Would the reader feel "one in a million" or "one of a million"?

3. BLUF (0–10)

  • Is the conclusion up front?
  • Or is there organ music — buildup, throat-clearing, qualification?

4. Length (0–10)

  • Is this as short as it can be without losing substance?
  • Cold email under 200 words? Op-ed under 800?

5. Story vs. resume (0–10)

  • Is there a specific scene with date, place, sensory detail?
  • Or is it a list of accomplishments?

6. "Like you" / connection (0–10)

  • Is there a specific, genuine bridge between writer and reader?
  • Not generic ("we both believe in AI")
  • Not self-diminishing ("but at a smaller scale")

7. Why-you / why-now (0–10)

  • What makes this writer uniquely qualified to say this?
  • Why is this timely?

8. The ask or offer (0–10)

  • Is the ask small and specific?
  • Is there an offer, or is the writer only taking?
  • Door open for no?

9. Tone (0–10)

  • Conversational, warm, human?
  • Confident but humble?
  • On their toes, not on their heels?
  • Says what they like AND would like — not only what they don't?

10. Jargon (0–10, deducting)

  • Banned words present? (See banned-jargon.md)
  • AI tells? ("It's not just X — it's Y," "delve," "tapestry")
  • Wordy phrases?

11. Specifics (0–10)

  • Real names, real numbers, real interviews?
  • Or vague abstractions?

12. Sentence rhythm (0–10)

  • Vary in length?
  • Read aloud — does it have music?

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 12d ago First seen · 132 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A d615f77f3446

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winning-writing-critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository kalyvask/winning-writing (14 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,165 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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