newsletter

newsletter is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive workflow for writing a newsletter from research, an idea, or a video transcript in a specific writer's voice. It moves through suggestions and user decisions instead of producing the complete newsletter immediately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop newsletter ideas, structure, and copy for Ben Van Sprundel's audience.
Why use it?
It keeps the draft grounded in the supplied reference material and lets the writer approve each stage. This reduces invented claims and generic wording.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the content plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop newsletter ideas, structure, and copy for Ben Van Sprundel's audience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/newsletter
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill newsletter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install content, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 newsletter

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,823 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 50
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 157
    Skill injects content designed to persist in agent memory or context across interactions. Persistent injection can alter agent behavior long after the initial interaction.
    Fix: Do not allow untrusted input to persist in agent memory or context. Validate all content before storing and implement memory isolation between sessions.
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 $0.00104 $0.01823
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00911
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00182

Measured 7d ago against content hash 284edad7c7b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

newsletter 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 7d 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/content/skills/newsletter/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ben's Newsletter Writer

An iterative, creative workflow for writing newsletters in Ben's authentic voice.

Critical Rules

  1. NEVER output a complete newsletter immediately. This is a step-by-step creative process. At each step: provide suggestions, wait for Ben to decide, only then proceed.
  2. ALWAYS read the specified context documents at each step. Each step lists REQUIRED READING. Do not skip it.
  3. Write only from the provided context documents. Do not invent strategies, stories, facts, or stylistic habits not evidenced in the inputs.

Context Documents Location

All documents are in the references/ folder bundled with this skill:

  • references/01_Ben_Profile_Background.md - Ben's story, credentials, values
  • references/02_What_We_Do_Offer.md - The offer and value proposition
  • references/03_ICP_Ideal_Customer_Profile.md - Target audience details
  • references/04_Voice_Personality.md - Tone and messaging
  • references/05_Newsletter_Strategy.md - Positioning and core beliefs
  • references/06_Frameworks_and_Patterns.md - Outline frameworks, subject line and hook patterns
  • references/07_Writing_Framework.md - Voice DNA, voice modes, writing method, checklist
  • references/08_Newsletter_Examples.md - Real newsletter examples to mimic

Read only the file(s) a step names. Do not read all references up front.


The 7-Step Process

Step 1: Input Analysis

REQUIRED READING: None yet. Just analyze the input.

Determine input type and clarify scope.

If YouTube transcript:

  • Ask: "Do you want to repurpose the entire video or focus on a specific insight/section?"
  • If specific section: ask which part or let Ben specify
  • Extract the core insight(s) from the selected content

If insight/idea:

  • Confirm understanding of the insight
  • Ask clarifying questions if the insight is vague

Output: Clear statement of the core insight to build the newsletter around.

STOP. Wait for Ben to confirm before proceeding.


Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 160 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 284edad7c7b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

newsletter is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,823 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-05.

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