Writing Effective Prompts

Writing Effective Prompts is a skill for Claude Code from mejba13/awesome-claude-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,176 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A prompt-writing guide for structuring Claude instructions with clear roles, context, positive wording, and explicit requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for drafting and organizing prompts so Claude has the information and instructions needed for a task.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unclear prompts when asking for complex work, long documents, tool use, or code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It is for drafting and organizing prompts so Claude has the information and instructions needed for a task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mejba13/awesome-claude-skills/writing-effective-prompts
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 mejba13/awesome-claude-skills --skill writing-effective-prompts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mejba13/awesome-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,176 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 unknown 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 $0.00046 $0.01176
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00470
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00118

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ab0692fa0ad1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Writing Effective Prompts 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 2mo 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/writing-effective-prompts/SKILL.md · 223 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 223 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A ab0692fa0ad1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Writing Effective Prompts is a skill published in the GitHub repository mejba13/awesome-claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,176 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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