writing

writing is a skill for Claude Code from MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop. It costs 112 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for writing software documents and messages that people can review quickly. It covers requirements, designs, test plans, tasks, pull-request text, decision records, capability documents, tickets, and review comments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or revising project documentation, tickets, pull requests, decision records, or other text that developers and reviewers must understand.
Why use it?
It helps readers find the problem, decision, trade-off, and checks without working through unnecessary explanation.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the the-loop plugin — 2 skills, 16 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or revising project documentation, tickets, pull requests, decision records, or other text that developers and reviewers must understand.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing
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 MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop --skill writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 16 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for writing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/madarauchiha-314/the-loop/writing.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 974 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 $0.00112 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00097

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7a20d51b9669, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing 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 8d 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.

skills/writing/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing for a human reader

A reviewer's job is to say yes or no. Every word between them and that decision is a cost you are charging them. Write to be approved, not to be admired.

The rule: say it once, to a named reader, in the fewest words that survive review.

Who is reading

Name the reader before the first sentence. A reviewer of design.md knows the codebase and wants the shape of the change. A capability.md reader wants current behaviour and does not care how it arrived. A ticket comment is read on a phone. The same fact is a paragraph for one and a table row for another.

The spine

Every explanatory document answers four questions, in this order:

  1. What was broken — the situation, and why it mattered enough to open a ticket.
  2. What we did about it — the resolution, stated as a decision, not a tour.
  3. What it costs — the trade-off taken, the thing given up, the risk carried.
  4. What to check — where the reader should look first, and what would falsify it.

Front-load each one. A section's first sentence carries its conclusion; the rest is support the reader may skip. Read only the first sentence of every section — if that alone tells the story, the document is shaped right.

Length follows the change

There is no word limit, and there should not be. A two-line bug fix and a new subsystem are both design.md, and a number that fits one is wrong for the other. A cap would only teach you to move prose into an appendix.

The test is not length, it is density: can any sentence come out without losing information? While the answer is yes, the document is too long — at 200 words or 2000. Three cuts nearly always find the slack: the sentence restating the heading, the sentence restating the sentence before it, and the adjective a number would replace.

Concision is about words, not coverage. A gated section stays even when it is empty; say so in one sentence, and why. Deleting ## Security considerations to shorten a document is fraud, not editing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 86 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 7a20d51b9669

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository MadaraUchiha-314/the-loop (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 974 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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