elps: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/write-docs/SKILL.md

write-docs is a skill for Claude Code from luthersystems/elps. It costs 0 tokens per session (798 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A writing guide for text produced in a software project, including documentation, comments, pull requests, issues, releases, and commits. It favors short, direct sentences and consistent terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever you write or edit text that people will read in the repository. It applies to docs, code comments, change descriptions, issue text, and release notes.
Why use it?
It makes technical text easier to read and gives contributors one shared writing style. It also sets rules for active voice, specific details, and clear instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is luthersystems/elps's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on elps itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything elps configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to luthersystems/elps. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luthersystems/elps/main/.claude/skills/write-docs/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/luthersystems/elps

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 798 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 $0.00000 $0.00798
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00319
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00080

Measured 2d ago against content hash 015f2180c245, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-docs 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 2d 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/write-docs/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/write-docs: House Writing Style

Use this style for all text you write: docs, docstrings, code comments, PR titles and bodies, issue text, release notes and commit messages.

Trigger

Load this skill before you write or edit any text that a person reads.

Rules

Write in the spirit of Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100).

  1. Put the answer or the rule first. Put the details after it.
  2. Keep each sentence to about 20 words or fewer.
  3. Use active voice and present tense.
  4. Give each word one meaning. Use the same word for the same thing.
  5. Write one instruction per sentence.
  6. Do not use idioms, filler or marketing adjectives. Filler includes "note that", "it's worth noting", "simply" and "basically".
  7. No mannered prose. Avoid "not X, but Y" framing, colon-then-reveal sentences, scare quotes around invented labels, rhetorical questions and stock phrases such as "worth noting" or "the upshot".
  8. Do not use em dashes. Use a period, comma, colon or parentheses.
  9. Do not use emoji. A footer that a repo requires is the only exception.
  10. Be specific. Give exact names, units, numbers and versions. Cite code as path:line.
  11. Write for the reader's next action. Leave out internals the reader does not need.
  12. Describe what is true now. Do not tell the history of unreleased work (drafts, earlier designs, "this replaced X, which never shipped"). A short "alternatives considered" note is allowed only when it explains a current design choice.
  13. Never name a customer. Never include customer code or data.
  14. Link GitHub items as a full markdown link or as owner/repo#N. Never write a bare #N.
  15. Use a table for comparisons, options and status. Use a list only for parallel items.

Do / Don't

Don't Do
Why does set! fail? It isn't set: it only mutates. set! only mutates an existing binding. Use set to create one.
set! will basically throw an error if the symbol isn't there. set! returns an error when the symbol is unbound.
Fix #742 Fix luthersystems/elps#742
The parser was rewritten; it used to be a PEG parser that we dropped. parser.NewReader returns an rdparser reader.
This blazing-fast new builtin makes JSON a breeze! json:load-bytes parses JSON bytes. JSON objects become sorted-maps.
Note that the step budget can be exceeded in some cases. Exhausting the step budget raises step-budget-exceeded.
See the lexer for details. See parser/lexer/lexer.go:55 (ReadToken).

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 2d ago First seen · 66 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 015f2180c245

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write-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository luthersystems/elps (36 stars, last pushed today), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 798 tokens. 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 2026-10-26.