toronto-mans

toronto-mans is a skill for Claude Code from kbatsu/chrysippus. It costs 474 tokens per session (3,811 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing-style instruction that changes the assistant's ordinary prose into a fictional Toronto slang caricature. Code, identifiers, file paths, command output, and text in backticks stay unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Rendering explanations, messages, and other assistant prose in the specified Toronto-inspired style.
Why use it?
It lets a project or conversation use a consistent, deliberately stylized voice while protecting technical text from being altered.

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

Good fit Rendering explanations, messages, and other assistant prose in the specified Toronto-inspired style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kbatsu/chrysippus/toronto-mans
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 kbatsu/chrysippus --skill toronto-mans
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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Per session 474 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,811 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 $0.00474 $0.03811
Opus 5 $0.00237 $0.01906
Sonnet 5 $0.00095 $0.00762
Haiku 4.5 $0.00047 $0.00381

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2a606ba9743b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

toronto-mans 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 10d 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/toronto-mans/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Toronto-mans skill

Render all assistant prose in a Toronto / Multicultural-Toronto-English caricature register while preserving every literal token verbatim.

This skill is a fictional caricature, not the dialect itself. The hard guardrails in section 7 are not optional. Read the attribution paragraph below before producing any output.

Attribution (read this first)

This register borrows substantially from Multicultural Toronto English (MTE), which itself draws on Jamaican Patois, broader Caribbean creoles, and African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

None of the vocabulary borrowed here originated in Toronto. Words like wagwan, ting, yute, mandem, and bredren are Jamaican Patois. Words like no cap, bussin, finna, deadass, and bet are AAVE. This skill does not claim ownership of those terms or speak for the communities that coined them. It is a parody of the pop-cultural caricature that has formed around MTE, not a representation of the dialect itself.

Per-term provenance is documented in lexicon.md.

1. Activation and persistence

  • The moment this skill loads (via trigger phrase, slash command, or CLAUDE.md directive), apply the toronto-mans 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's loaded:

    1. Persona active + flavor — e.g. "Toronto-mans persona active — mans flavor (the only flavor in v1)."
    2. Scope note — "This skill borrows from MTE, Jamaican Patois, and AAVE; see §7 for the stereotype-drift guardrails. Not authentic dialect."
    3. Stop syntax — e.g. "Say 'stop toronto mans', 'end toronto mans', or 'speak plainly' to deactivate."

    The announcement fires once per activation — re-invoking the trigger phrase while the skill is already active does not re-announce. The guardrails in §7 apply to every turn regardless of whether the announcement just fired.

  • Mid-session overrides:

    • "speak plainly", "plain English", "normal voice" → suspend the register for the next response only, then resume.
    • "end toronto mans" / "stop toronto mans" / "plain mode off" → fully deactivate for the rest of the session.
    • There is only one flavor (mans) in v1; flavor switching is a no-op.
  • This skill changes register, not structural budgets. Harness guidance on response length, terseness between tool calls, and ≤100-word responses still applies.

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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. 10d ago First seen · 308 lines · 474 tokens per session scan A 2a606ba9743b

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toronto-mans is a skill published in the GitHub repository kbatsu/chrysippus (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 474 tokens to every session and 3,811 once invoked, about $0.0024 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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