writing-guidelines

writing-guidelines is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from moasq/agentic-ship. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules and review procedures for writing documentation and other reader-facing text. It covers planning, drafting, reviewing, and making the final prose sound natural.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing documentation, README files, wiki articles, product guides, or other substantial prose.
Why use it?
It helps keep longer documents focused, readable, consistent, and free of common machine-written patterns.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agentic-ship plugin — 28 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook, 12 MCP servers shipped together

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/moasq/agentic-ship/writing-guidelines
Any agent
npx skills add moasq/agentic-ship --skill writing-guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moasq/agentic-ship

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-ship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook, 12 MCP servers.

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.

agentmods badge for writing-guidelines

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/moasq/agentic-ship/writing-guidelines.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/moasq/agentic-ship/writing-guidelines)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/moasq/agentic-ship/writing-guidelines"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/moasq/agentic-ship/writing-guidelines.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,053 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 $0.00068 $0.01053
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00526
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00105

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7a1817efa7e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-guidelines 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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/writing-guidelines/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing guidelines

Docs succeed because of hundreds of small decisions. This skill carries the Vercel docs handbook (vendored under references/) and binds it to this stack: which rules apply verbatim, which are replaced by house rules, and the order of the writing loop.

The writing loop

  1. Plan first. Before drafting a page, write five lines: overview, goal, audience, content plan, open questions. The goal takes a testable verb (configure, explain, debug). Pick one content type per page: tutorial, how-to, reference, conceptual, troubleshooting, or landing. One page does one job.
  2. Draft against the handbook. references/guidelines.md is the full rule set; apply everything the scope table below does not override.
  3. Review with the checklist. references/review-checklist.md is a self-contained review prompt. Run it over the finished draft and report findings in file:line form. It also names the AI-tell patterns to flag: summary-style transitions, spec-sheet voice, stop-start fragments, personified artifacts.
  4. Humanize. Run the humanizer skill over the final prose in embedded mode. It is the last pass, after content is settled, so it edits voice rather than facts.

What binds here, what does not

Most of the handbook transfers verbatim: active voice, direct address, imperative steps, sentences under 20 words, sentence-case headings, descriptive subheadings, summary-first pages and sections, acronyms spelled out on first use, list and code-block discipline, descriptive snake_case placeholders, no em dashes, no banned words (easy, simple, quick), no filler (very, just, really).

These upstream rules are Vercel product conventions and do not bind:

  • Curly quotes and the ellipsis character: this stack writes plain markdown for terminals, GitHub, and diff review, and the humanizer skill treats curly quotes as an AI tell. Straight quotes and three dots win. This is the one deliberate conflict between the two vendored sources, resolved here.
  • meta.contentType, meta.navLabel, <Steps/>, non-breaking spaces, dashboard deep-link formats, the ACME demo account, vercel/examples, and model-string requirements: all specific to Vercel's docs platform. Declare the content type in the plan instead of frontmatter, and use the components this stack actually ships.
  • "Use only enterprise models" and PR-disclosure process rules: team policy for Vercel employees, recorded in the reference, not enforced here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 82 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 7a1817efa7e4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-guidelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository moasq/agentic-ship (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,053 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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