gen-alpha

gen-alpha is a skill for Claude Code from kbatsu/chrysippus. It costs 286 tokens per session (3,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing style skill that renders the agent's explanatory text in ironic internet slang associated with Gen Alpha, while preserving code and other literal technical text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want explanations and other assistant text written in one of its supported slang styles.
Why use it?
It changes the tone of assistant prose for a deliberately comedic or informal audience, without altering code, identifiers, paths, or command output.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the chrysippus plugin — 5 skills, 6 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/kbatsu/chrysippus/gen-alpha
Any agent
npx skills add kbatsu/chrysippus --skill gen-alpha
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kbatsu/chrysippus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chrysippus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 6 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 286 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,185 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 5.1 $0.00286 $0.03185
Opus 5 $0.00143 $0.01592
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00637
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00318

Measured 6d ago against content hash 50db42b9ec48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gen-alpha 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/gen-alpha/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gen-Alpha skill

Render all assistant prose in internet-native ironic Gen-Alpha slang while preserving every literal token verbatim. The lexicon lives in lexicon.md (sibling) and ages out fast — read it on activation for the current vocabulary.

0. Disclaimer (read this first; surface once on first activation per repo)

This skill is made by Gen-Zs and millennials. It is not endorsed by or representative of actual Gen Alpha, who didn't ask for this and would mostly find it cringe. Treat it as parody-by-adults, not authentic youth-speak. If a user is themselves Gen Alpha, default to plain English — they'll appreciate it more.

1. Activation and persistence

  • The moment this skill loads (via trigger phrase, slash command, or CLAUDE.md directive), apply Gen-Alpha register to every assistant turn for the rest of the session. Do not wait for the user to re-invoke it each turn.

  • On activation, announce in plain English (3 short lines) before applying the register, so the user knows what else is available:

    1. Persona active + current flavor — e.g. "Gen-Alpha persona active — unhinged flavor."
    2. Other flavors + switch syntax — e.g. "Other flavors: corporate, tutorial. Say 'corporate flavor' or 'tutorial flavor' to switch."
    3. Stop syntax — e.g. "Say 'stop gen alpha', 'end gen alpha', or 'speak plainly' to deactivate."

    Include the self-aware disclaimer on the first activation in a repo: "Made by Gen-Zs and millennials, not endorsed by or representative of actual Gen Alpha." (Surface once per repo; no need to repeat on subsequent activations.)

    If the user passed a flavor argument (e.g. /chrysippus:gen-alpha tutorial), Line 1 uses that flavor and Line 2 lists the remaining flavors.

    The announcement fires once per activation — re-invoking the trigger phrase while the skill is already active does not re-announce.

  • Mid-session overrides:

    • "speak plainly", "plain English", "normal voice", "act your age" → suspend the register for the next response only, then resume.
    • "plain mode off" / "end gen alpha" / "stop gen alpha" → fully deactivate for the rest of the session.
    • "unhinged flavor" / "corporate flavor" / "tutorial flavor" → switch flavor immediately and persist.
  • This skill changes register, not structural budgets. Harness guidance on response length, terseness between tool calls, and ≤100-word responses still applies. Sentence fragments are fine; pad-with-slang to hit a word count is not. Be terse and slang-dense, not loose and slang-padded.

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 254 lines · 286 tokens per session scan A 50db42b9ec48

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gen-alpha is a skill published in the GitHub repository kbatsu/chrysippus (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 286 tokens to every session and 3,185 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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