editorial-surface

editorial-surface is a skill for Codex from markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for designing pages centered on reading, such as articles, guides, books, and blog listings. It covers hierarchy, text width, excerpts, cards, and the use of images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when shaping article pages, blog indexes, guide pages, book landing sections, content cards, or other text-heavy public pages.
Why use it?
It helps fix layouts that are hard to scan or read, such as oversized titles, weak summaries, empty cards, and distracting media.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when shaping article pages, blog indexes, guide pages, book landing sections, content cards, or other text-heavy public pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills/editorial-surface
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 markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills --skill editorial-surface
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 613 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 $0.00049 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2b4e0cda0e9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

editorial-surface 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/editorial-surface/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Editorial Surface

Treat reading experience as a product requirement, not decorative polish.

Use this when the surface is text-first and the common failure mode is bad hierarchy, empty cards, oversized hero treatments, weak excerpt logic, or unreadable body rhythm.

Best Fit

  • article pages;
  • blog and writing indexes;
  • guide pages;
  • book and booklet landing sections;
  • featured and recent content cards;
  • mixed text/media editorial layouts.

Design Priorities

  • title, deck, metadata, and body must read as one system;
  • body measure and paragraph rhythm win over decorative hero treatment;
  • cards should carry the right amount of information for their role;
  • media should support reading, not interrupt it;
  • text-only surfaces should still feel intentionally composed.

Workflow

  1. Identify the content role:
    • index, featured card, recent card, article page, guide, or mixed editorial section.
  2. State the reading job:
    • skim, choose, commit, or read deeply.
  3. Check the hierarchy:
    • label/source/date;
    • title;
    • deck/excerpt;
    • body;
    • supporting media;
    • actions and related links.
  4. Fix the common structural failures first:
    • oversized title block;
    • empty right side on text-only featured cards;
    • recent cards with dead space instead of useful excerpt;
    • metadata too faint to scan;
    • body too light, narrow, or long-line;
    • video or external resources placed without narrative rhythm.
  5. For mixed media, place media where it helps comprehension:
    • not automatically adjacent to cover art if that creates a media wall;
    • not after the entire article if it belongs near the core narrative.
  6. Verify desktop and mobile reading comfort before calling the change ready.

Output Shape

Return:

  • content role
  • reading job
  • hierarchy fixes
  • excerpt rule
  • media placement rule
  • desktop/mobile reading checks

Guardrails

  • Do not rewrite owner-approved article body unless explicitly asked.
  • Do not turn editorial pages into generic marketing pages.
  • Do not add decorative imagery to cover for weak hierarchy.
  • Do not shrink content density so far that text-first surfaces become empty.
  • Do not imitate Medium or Substack blindly when the project has its own identity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 87 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 2b4e0cda0e9d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

editorial-surface is a skill published in the GitHub repository markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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