writing-fragments

writing-fragments is a skill for Claude Code from karlarao/afk. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,015 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of writing-fragments, MIT.

A guided brainstorming process that collects unfinished ideas, claims, examples, and sentences in one document for a future article.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a writing topic through questions and save the resulting fragments in a single Markdown document.
Why use it?
It lets you develop raw material before imposing an outline or polished structure, while preserving your edits.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore a writing topic through questions and save the resulting fragments in a single Markdown document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/karlarao/afk/writing-fragments
View source ↗ karlarao/afk
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 karlarao/afk --skill writing-fragments
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/karlarao/afk

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,015 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 83% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00080 $0.01015
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00102

Measured 11d ago against content hash ed1a5e04583d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-fragments 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.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to writing-fragments — 24 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/matt-latest/skills/in-progress/writing-fragments/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run a grilling session that produces fragments. Interview the user relentlessly about whatever they want to write about. Do not impose phases, outlines, or structure — that is explicitly out of scope.

As fragments emerge from either side of the conversation, append them to a single markdown file. The user will be editing this file during the session; always re-read it before writing so their edits are preserved.

If the user did not pass a path, ask once where to save the document, then remember it for the rest of the session.

On first write, put a single H1 at the top with a working title (it can change later) and nothing else — no metadata, no TOC, no date.

What is a fragment

A fragment is any piece of text that might survive into the final article. It must be readable by the author — the author can tell what it means — but it does not need to define its terms or be comprehensible to a cold reader. The bar is "is this a piece of good writing?", not "is this a self-contained argument?"

Fragments are deliberately heterogeneous. Examples of what could be a fragment:

  • A sharp sentence you'd want to deploy somewhere but don't yet know where.
  • A claim with a one-line justification.
  • A vignette: a thing that happened, a code snippet, a scenario, an analogy.
  • A half-thought: "something about how X feels like Y, work this out later."
  • A quote, a piece of dialogue, an overheard line.
  • A list of related observations that hang together by feel.
  • A complaint, a confession, a punchline.

The novelist's diary is the model: years of unstructured noticings that later get mined for raw material. Fragments are noticings.

How the session feels

Like a grilling session, with fragments as a by-product. The shape:

  • Start by asking what the user is circling around. Let them ramble.
  • Catch fragments from their words. When they say something quotable, capture it verbatim or slightly sharpened.
  • Generate candidate fragments back at them. Try things on. Offer two or three versions of the same idea and let them pick or reject.
  • When something lands, append it. When it doesn't, drop it.
  • Press for more. Excavate. "You said X — say it three different ways." "What's the version of that you wouldn't say in public?" "What's the example that made you believe this in the first place?"
  • Push on quality. The article will only be as good as its fragments. If a fragment is mushy, propose a sharper rewrite before appending.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A ed1a5e04583d

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writing-fragments is a skill published in the GitHub repository karlarao/afk (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,015 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to writing-fragments, differing in 24 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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