the-understudy

the-understudy is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (227 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of the-time-capsule, MIT.

A writing skill described as learning a person's working style and judgment. The available information does not specify its exact inputs or output.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for requests such as writing in your style or creating an AI assistant that learns from your judgment.
Why use it?
It is intended for drafts that should reflect the user's way of thinking, but the supplied description is too thin to explain how it does that.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-2027 plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for requests such as writing in your style or creating an AI assistant that learns from your judgment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,466 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-understudy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-2027, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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 the-understudy

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for the-understudy

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/the-understudy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 227 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00035 $0.00227
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00091
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00023

Measured 5d ago against content hash f426821175b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

the-understudy scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

Deliver the full artifact even from a thin brief — infer and label assumptions, never refuse for missing context. <!-- TODO: tailor -->
Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to the-time-capsule — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pm-2027/skills/the-understudy/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

The Understudy Skill

One-line summary of the value this skill delivers.

Working from a brief

Deliver the full artifact even from a thin brief — infer and label assumptions, never refuse for missing context.

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided), else infer and label:

Output Format

Quality Checks

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Write it like I would."
  • "Learn my style."
  • "Draft this as me."
  • "Wants an AI that apprentices to their judgment rather than imitating their tone."
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 · 37 lines · 35 tokens per session scan C f426821175b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

the-understudy is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,466 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 227 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). It is 86% identical to the-time-capsule, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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