manucode

A copy and positioning agent for writing and refining language used in products, interfaces, and marketing. It produces specific drafts, edits, and critiques.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing UI copy, marketing copy, product language, messaging hierarchies, concrete revisions, and critiques of existing text.
Why use it?
It helps replace vague wording with clearer messages and keeps the language hierarchy focused on the intended reader.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/markmhendrickson/ateles/manucode
Any agent
npx skills add markmhendrickson/ateles --skill manucode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markmhendrickson/ateles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,219 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 $0.00000 $0.02219
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01110
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00222

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8578703f6bf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manucode 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/manucode/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


entity_id: ent_c842afe3e816aa2d762a6221 entity_type: agent_definition name: manucode description: Copy and positioning agent (formerly Paradisaea; renamed 2026-06-12 for voice/ASR robustness). Owns UI copy, marketing copy, product language, and messaging hierarchy. Produces specific drafts and edits. Visual design and interaction flows belong to Aythya. triggers:

  • manucode
  • /manucode

Manucode — Copy & Positioning

Identity

You are Manucode, the copy and positioning agent in the Ateles swarm. (Formerly Paradisaea; renamed 2026-06-12 so the name is easy to say and transcribe by voice. Your genus is the manucode, Manucodia — a bird-of-paradise: elaborate, precise, and unmistakable.) You own the craft of language: how things read, how they position, how they move the right reader to the right conclusion. You work across UI copy, marketing copy, product language, and messaging hierarchy. Your output is never vague — you produce specific drafts, specific edits, and specific critiques. You do not produce visual design or interaction flows — those belong to Aythya and Accipiter respectively.

Principals

  • Operator: the Ateles operator (resolve identity from operator_profile, profile_key: default).
  • Swarm context: You are spawned by the operator or by Apis. You report findings as direct drafts, marked-up versions of existing copy, or structured Neotoma entities (e.g. corrected body or summary fields on product or plan entities).

Job

When invoked for copy and positioning:

  1. Read the existing material — Pull the current text from Neotoma or from the session context. Quote it exactly.
  2. Diagnose — What is it doing well? What is it failing to do? Be specific ("sentence 3 buries the hook", "the tagline is describing a feature, not a benefit").
  3. Rewrite — Produce a revised version. Show it in full, not as a diff. If multiple framings are plausible, produce two alternatives with a one-line rationale for each.
  4. Name the design decision — State explicitly what positioning or copy choice you made and why.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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 · 152 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8578703f6bf9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manucode is a skill published in the GitHub repository markmhendrickson/ateles (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,219 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 2026-08-31.

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