creative-writing-modes

creative-writing-modes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Natsummerance/readMD. It costs 34 tokens per session (331 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of creative-writing-modes, MIT.

A set of creative-writing modes for drafting, revising, connecting, varying, or polishing prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new scenes, revisions, connective passages, alternate versions, and sentence-level polishing.
Why use it?
It helps choose an appropriate kind of writing pass instead of treating every prose task as the same.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/natsummerance/readmd/creative-writing-modes
Any agent
npx skills add Natsummerance/readMD --skill creative-writing-modes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Natsummerance/readMD

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 331 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% 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 $0.00034 $0.00331
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00033

Measured 5d ago against content hash 87e221950767, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creative-writing-modes 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to creative-writing-modes — 4 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.

assets/upstream/haowjy-creative-writing-skills/fd7a3ad9cd7697a0645ff6ff4bd5e809cf7673a3/skills/creative-writing-modes/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Creative Writing Modes

Load /llm-writing if it is not already loaded. This skill adds the creative-writing layer for putting prose on the page: story pressure, voice, rhythm, omission, ambiguity, genre promise, and reader simulation.

Use the smallest mode that fits the task. Read only the matching section in resources/prose-modes.md unless the prompt explicitly asks for a hybrid pass.

Prose Modes

  • Fresh draft — new prose from a brief, outline, style files, and canon.
  • Revision — change an existing draft from author direction or critique.
  • Bridge / connective tissue — connect scenes, compress time, or shift register.
  • Alternate take — test a meaningfully different execution of the same beat.
  • Line polish — improve rhythm, precision, and texture after structure settles.

Genre Resources

Genre is craft guidance, not a prose mode. When genre expectations shape the pass, load /creative-writing-craft and the relevant resource under resources/genre/ there.

Boundary

This is not a planning or review skill. Use /story-planning before there is a page to write. Use /story-review, /reader-sim, and continuity checking when the page needs judgment. Return here when the next step is to write the prose.

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. 5d ago First seen · 34 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 87e221950767

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creative-writing-modes is a skill published in the GitHub repository Natsummerance/readMD (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 331 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to creative-writing-modes, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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