ai-prompting-basics

ai-prompting-basics is a skill for Claude Code from modu-ai/moai-cowork. It costs 58 tokens per session (774 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A practical guide to writing clearer requests for Claude, an AI assistant, by adding context, examples, roles, and output rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve prompts, specify formats and tone, structure long inputs, provide useful examples, and ask for answers that avoid unsupported guesses.
Why use it?
It helps reduce vague, overly long, or off-target answers when the user does not know how to phrase a request.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the moai-coworker plugin — 32 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to improve prompts, specify formats and tone, structure long inputs, provide useful examples, and ask for answers that avoid unsupported guesses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/modu-ai/moai-cowork/ai-prompting-basics
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add modu-ai/moai-cowork --skill ai-prompting-basics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modu-ai/moai-cowork

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install moai-coworker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 774 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.00774
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00310
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00155
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00077

Measured 21d ago against content hash d495ec30f56d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-prompting-basics 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 21d 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/moai-coworker/skills/ai-prompting-basics/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

ai-prompting-basics — 비개발자용 AI 대화 가이드

Claude Cowork와 ChatGPT Work에서 공통으로 쓸 수 있는 요청 방법을 안내합니다. 앱마다 지원하는 기능과 버튼은 실제 화면에서 확인합니다.

핵심 원칙

  1. 목표를 구체적으로 — "도움말 만들어줘"보다 "처음 쓰는 사람이 앱에서 설치할 수 있도록 단계별 도움말을 써줘"라고 요청합니다.
  2. 필요한 맥락을 제공 — 대상 독자, 사용 상황, 제약과 이유를 알려 줍니다. 개인정보·비밀 자료는 제공 전에 공유 범위를 확인합니다.
  3. 실제 예시를 첨부 — 원하는 문체나 표가 있으면 짧은 예시를 줍니다. 예시 속 수치가 실제 자료인지도 구분합니다.
  4. 자료와 요청을 구분 — 긴 자료는 제목과 구분선을 붙여 제공하고, 어떤 자료를 근거로 삼을지 적습니다. XML 태그는 Claude에서 복잡한 자료를 구조화할 때 쓸 수 있는 선택지입니다.
  5. 출력 형식을 지정 — 문단, 표, 체크리스트 등 원하는 형식을 적습니다. 전문 자격이나 경력을 꾸며 주는 역할 설정은 근거가 되지 않습니다.
  6. 확인 기준을 적기 — 최신 정보가 필요하면 공식 출처와 기준일을 확인하게 하고, 확인하지 못한 내용은 추정이라고 표시하게 합니다.

비개발자 실전 치트키

이런 요청은 이렇게 바꾸세요
"글 써줘" "건강보험을 처음 알아보는 사람에게 제도 개요를 3문단으로 써줘. 현재 혜택은 공식 자료로 확인해줘"
"잘 만들어줘" (모호) 원하는 형식의 예시 1개를 직접 보여주기
"~하지 마" (부정) 원하는 형태를 구체적으로 적기. 금지 조건도 필요하면 함께 명시
"더 좋게" (평가어) 구체 기준("초등 5학년이 이해 가능하게, 문장당 25자 이내")

자주 묻는 질문

Q: 답변이 너무 길어요 → 출력 형식 명시: "3문단, 문장당 25자 이내" 또는 "한 슬라이드당 핵심 1줄".

Q: 내 뉘앙스가 안 살아요 → 실제 문체 예시를 제공. "이런 톤으로: [예시]".

Q: 거짓말(할루시네이션)해요 → "모르면 모른다고 해. 추측하지 마" + 확인 가능한 출처 요청.

참고

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. 21d ago Changed · +1 lines d495ec30f56d
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -6 lines · -17 tokens per session 1af1534c2c6d
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A e1cb712f7823

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ai-prompting-basics is a skill published in the GitHub repository modu-ai/moai-cowork (313 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 774 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 2026-08-30.