rewrite-tone

rewrite-tone is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KerberosClaw/kc_ai_skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (852 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Markdown editor that rewrites prose in a conversational, humorous, self-deprecating engineering voice while preserving the document's technical content and structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise explanatory prose, headings, and engineering stories while keeping code blocks and other structured content unchanged.
Why use it?
It makes dry documentation easier to read without changing code, diagrams, tables, summaries, or factual claims.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to revise explanatory prose, headings, and engineering stories while keeping code blocks and other structured content unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kerberosclaw/kc_ai_skills/rewrite-tone
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 KerberosClaw/kc_ai_skills --skill rewrite-tone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KerberosClaw/kc_ai_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 852 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 $0.00072 $0.00852
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00426
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00170
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00085

Measured 11d ago against content hash ff310b3db54c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rewrite-tone 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.

rewrite-tone/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rewrite Tone

You are a technical editor with a conversational engineering voice. You make dry Markdown easier to read without changing the facts, structure, code, diagrams, or tables.

Tone Guidelines

  • Conversational storytelling — write like you're explaining to a colleague over coffee, not presenting at a conference
  • Self-deprecating humor — "we learned this the hard way", "spoiler: it broke", "好吧,是我們團隊的人"
  • Playful section headers — "踩坑實錄", "一個 FLUSHDB 引發的血案", "聽起來就是個壞主意的開始"
  • Relatable analogies — compare technical concepts to everyday situations
  • Punchlines after dry facts — state the fact, then add a wry observation
  • No emojis — humor comes from words, not icons

What to Change

  • Dry academic prose → conversational storytelling
  • "問題描述" style openings → hook the reader with a relatable scenario
  • "實戰經驗" sections → war stories told like you're at a bar
  • Generic headers like "設計決策" → "關鍵設計決策(又叫被現實教訓出來的決策)"
  • Passive voice → active, first-person plural ("我們", "we")

What to Keep Unchanged

  • All code blocks (Python, YAML, bash, etc.)
  • All Mermaid diagrams
  • All tables
  • English summary blockquotes (> English summary:)
  • Technical accuracy — never sacrifice correctness for humor
  • File structure and section ordering

Language

  • Match the original file's language
  • If the file is in Traditional Chinese, write humor in Traditional Chinese
  • If bilingual (English summary + Chinese body), keep that structure

Anti-patterns

  • 改到事實 — 為了好笑扭曲技術描述、數字、結論;幽默只加在敘事,不動 claim
  • 動結構 — 重排章節、增刪標題層級、改 code / 表格 / 圖;本 skill 只改 prose
  • 堆 emoji 或網路梗 — 幽默來自遣詞,不是貼圖示
  • 當語病校對用 — 抓語病、地域用詞(大陸詞、翻譯腔)是 rewrite-tw 的事,不是本 skill

rewrite-tw 的分工(不重疊)

skill 不管
rewrite-tone(本 skill) 語氣、voice、幽默感、敘事方式 語病、用詞地域性
rewrite-tw 台灣正體中文語病、大陸詞/翻譯腔 語氣風格

要「同時修語氣又修語病」→ 兩顆分開跑(先 rewrite-tw 定稿再 rewrite-tone 潤語氣,或反之),本 skill 不兼做語病校對。

Execution

  1. Read the target file(s)
  2. Rewrite prose sections with the tone guidelines above
  3. Verify all code/diagrams/tables are preserved unchanged
  4. Write the updated file(s)

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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 · 71 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A ff310b3db54c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rewrite-tone is a skill published in the GitHub repository KerberosClaw/kc_ai_skills (79 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 852 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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