in-your-own-words

in-your-own-words is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 36 tokens per session (64 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short goal-restatement helper that repeats the user's request in different words and identifies the problem they are trying to solve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want an agent to confirm its understanding of a request before acting on it.
Why use it?
It helps expose misunderstandings before work begins. The supplied description does not specify any additional task-specific capability.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pstack plugin — 65 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want an agent to confirm its understanding of a request before acting on it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/in-your-own-words
About the project

pstack-claude is a set of opinionated coding-agent skills and workflows ported from Cursor to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other agent harnesses. It guides agents toward concise, simple, and verified code by routing goals to suitable workflows and supporting subagent tools. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, agents, hook, and plugin implementations for these agent environments.

michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 2,366 stars · on GitHub

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 michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill in-your-own-words
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 65 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for in-your-own-words

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 64 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 $0.00036 $0.00064
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00026
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00006

Measured today against content hash 292b1f5b008a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

in-your-own-words 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 today.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/skills/in-your-own-words/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

Restate in your own words what you think the user's goals are and what problem they're trying to solve.

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. today First seen · 7 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 292b1f5b008a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

in-your-own-words is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (2,366 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 64 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-16.

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