x-four-saves

x-four-saves is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kangarooking/X-growth-skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,816 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for judging whether a piece of content is worth publishing. It asks whether the content saves readers searching, understanding, trial and error, or rewriting work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before publishing a post, recommendation, resource, guide, or explanation to check whether it gives readers a useful shortcut.
Why use it?
It helps replace a vague question about content quality with a quick check of the concrete work readers avoid. It is meant for deciding whether to publish, not for writing the post itself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it before publishing a post, recommendation, resource, guide, or explanation to check whether it gives readers a useful shortcut.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kangarooking/x-growth-skills/x-four-saves
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 kangarooking/X-growth-skills --skill x-four-saves
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kangarooking/X-growth-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,816 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 $0.00127 $0.02816
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01408
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00282

Measured 12d ago against content hash 13374ee86668, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x-four-saves 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.

x-four-saves/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

四省模型 — 内容估值

R — 原文 (Reading)

"内容的价值,不在于你说了多少信息,而在于你帮读者少走了几步路。1.省搜索:读者不用在信息海里捞入口;2.省理解:读者不用自己啃复杂概念;3.省试错:读者不用把坑全踩一遍;4.省表达:读者可以直接把这条转给别人。"

— 向阳乔木, X爆款秘籍分享.md · 四省模型


I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)

四省模型是一个内容估值工具,不是写作模板。

它把评估视角从创作者中心("我说了多少信息")切到读者中心("读者能跳过什么")。一条内容值不值得发,不取决于信息量大小,而取决于它帮读者省了以下四步路中的至少一步:

  1. 省搜索 — 读者不用自己去海量信息里找入口,你直接给了。
  2. 省理解 — 读者不用啃复杂文档或概念,你已经翻译成能看懂的话。
  3. 省试错 — 读者不用把坑全踩一遍,你给了步骤、路径或避坑指南。
  4. 省表达 — 读者可以直接把这条转给别人,无需自己重新组织语言。

核心判断:一步都不省的内容不值得发。省的步数越多、越稀缺,内容价值越高。发帖前花30秒用它做自检,比发完等数据更高效。


A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)

案例 1: 飞书博物馆文档帖(省搜索)

  • 问题: 如何把一个稀缺资源做成高传播内容?
  • 方法论的使用: 向阳乔木分享了一个将全球博物馆155万份藏品整理进飞书文档的资源帖。读者拿到的是直接可用入口,不用自己去155家博物馆网站逐一搜刮——典型"省搜索"。
  • 结论: 帮读者省了搜索这一步,内容就有发布价值。
  • 结果: 26.3万浏览,属于资源入口型中位互动2965的代表案例。

案例 2: 猫抓Chrome插件帖(省搜索+省试错)

  • 问题: 一个工具推荐帖如何做到既有人看又有人用?
  • 方法论的使用: 分享60万安装量的猫抓插件,强调"自动嗅探音频视频下载"的具体场景和安装入口。读者不用自己搜索插件、不用试错哪个好用——同时省搜索和省试错。
  • 结论: 省了两步(搜索+试错)的内容比只省一步的更有传播力。
  • 结果: 20.7万浏览,286转发,1319收藏。

案例 3: ClaudeCode新手指南帖(省理解)

  • 问题: 一个技术工具指南如何吸引非技术读者?
  • 方法论的使用: 分享了一位非程序员写的Claude Code使用指南,强调"从新手视角写""不会编程的人也能看懂"。读者不用啃官方文档——省理解。
  • 结论: 把复杂概念翻译成新手能懂的话,就是省理解,内容值得发。
  • 结果: 21.4万浏览,254转发,1319收藏。

A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★

用户会在什么情境下需要这个 skill?

  1. 发帖前的价值自检 — 写完一条内容(或准备发一条),犹豫"这条值不值得发""有没有人看"。
  2. 多选题比较 — 手上有几个选题,不知道哪个更值得做,需要用统一标准比较价值。
  3. 复盘"为什么没人理" — 发了一条效果很差,想判断是"一步都没省"还是"省了但没传达到位"。
  4. 评估他人爆款 — 看到一条爆款,想拆解它为什么火,用四省框架分析其价值来源。
  5. 决定内容投入度 — 一个选题看起来可以写很长,但不确定投入产出比,先自检它省了几步路。

语言信号 (用户的话里出现这些就应激活)

  • "这条值不值得发 / 该不该发"
  • "有没有内容价值 / 这条有没有价值"
  • "为什么没人看 / 为什么没人理"
  • "省了几步路 / 帮读者省了什么"
  • "worth posting / content value / should I post this / save steps"

与相邻 skill 的区分

  • x-five-piece-checklist 的区别: 五件套检查的是一条推文的结构完备性(价值承诺/场景/入口/证据/收藏理由是否齐全);四省模型检查的是这条内容值不值得存在(帮读者省了几步路)。前者是"齐不齐",后者是"值不值"。用户说"帮我检查齐不齐"→五件套;用户说"值不值得发"→四省。
  • x-content-archetypes 的区别: 四类原型按"读者拿到能做什么"分类(资源入口型/工具教程型/AI工具发现型/普通表达型),预测传播上限;四省模型是估值检验(省了几步路),决定值不值得发。前者回答"这是哪类",后者回答"该不该发"。
  • x-three-translations 的区别: 三次翻译是改写工具(把公告式内部语言翻译成读者能拿走的外部语言);四省模型是估值工具(不改写内容,只判断价值)。前者是"怎么改",后者是"值不值"。

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

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.

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 · 144 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 13374ee86668

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x-four-saves is a skill published in the GitHub repository kangarooking/X-growth-skills (62 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,816 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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