brand-voice-development

brand-voice-development is a skill for Claude Code from mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing framework for defining a brand’s consistent personality and adapting its tone to different situations. It includes established models, comparison techniques, tone grids, and documentation templates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or document brand voice, choose tone for different audiences, and turn abstract qualities such as “trustworthy” into usable writing guidance.
Why use it?
It gives teams a shared way to decide how a brand should sound instead of making wording choices ad hoc.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-vibes plugin — 22 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or document brand voice, choose tone for different audiences, and turn abstract qualities such as “trustworthy” into usable writing guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes/brand-voice-development
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 mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes --skill brand-voice-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-vibes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,481 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 $0.00071 $0.02481
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00992
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00496
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00248

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 43e340979bf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-voice-development 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 1mo 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.

plugins/vibes/skills/brand-voice-development/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand voice development framework

Quick reference for developing brand voice and verbal identity using established methodologies from voice strategists.

"You have the same voice all the time, but your tone changes. You might use one tone when you're out to dinner with your closest friends, and a different tone when you're in a meeting with your boss." — Mailchimp Content Style Guide


Key distinction: voice vs. tone

Concept Definition Consistency
Voice Brand's personality expressed through language Always consistent
Tone How voice adapts to different contexts Varies by situation

Analogy: you have the same voice whether talking to your boss or your friends, but your tone changes.


Core methodologies

1. Bloomstein's message architecture & BrandSort

Created by: Margot Bloomstein

The Process:

  1. Sort attribute cards into three piles:
    • "Who you are" (current perception)
    • "Who you'd like to be" (aspirational)
    • "Who you're NOT" (actively rejected)
  2. Prioritize: From "who you'd like to be," create hierarchy of 8-12 attributes
  3. Unpack abstract terms: Make "innovative" or "trustworthy" concrete
  4. Content audit: Evaluate existing content against the architecture

Key Principle: balance user needs with brand identity, because being exclusively user-focused leads to bland sameness.


2. Nielsen Norman Group's four dimensions of tone

Research-backed framework for plotting voice position:

Dimension Spectrum Example
Formality Formal ←→ Casual "We appreciate your inquiry" vs "Hey, good question!"
Humor Serious ←→ Funny Straightforward vs witty
Reverence Respectful ←→ Irreverent Traditional vs rule-breaking
Energy Matter-of-fact ←→ Enthusiastic Neutral vs excited

Application:

  • Plot intended position on each dimension
  • A brand can be serious and casual (like a friendly financial advisor)
  • Avoid landing exactly in the middle on all dimensions, which reads as generic

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 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. 1mo ago Changed · -47 tokens per session 43e340979bf5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 286 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 97bc16036dba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brand-voice-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,481 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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