cdc-clear-communication

cdc-clear-communication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks. It costs 64 tokens per session (845 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing and review guide for clear public-health messages, such as patient explanations, emergency notices, and health education. It is based on the CDC Clear Communication Index, a framework for checking whether health information is easy to understand and act on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define the audience and desired action, lead with the main message, preserve evidence accurately, explain uncertainty, and flag contradictions or missing clinical review.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear wording from hiding important health facts, limits, uncertainties, or instructions. It also discourages unsupported diagnoses, treatments, causes, benefits, and risks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the agent-stylebooks plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps define the audience and desired action, lead with the main message, preserve evidence accurately, explain uncertainty, and flag contradictions or missing clinical review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks/cdc-clear-communication
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 Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks --skill cdc-clear-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-stylebooks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 845 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 $0.00064 $0.00845
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 10d ago against content hash ff07ae3a5c36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cdc-clear-communication 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 10d 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.

skills/cdc-clear-communication/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.

CDC clear communication

Help a defined public audience notice, understand, and act on accurate health information. Treat clarity as part of safety, not as permission to weaken evidence.

Protect health and scientific truth

  • Preserve verified symptoms, thresholds, populations, time windows, contraindications, uncertainties, and instructions exactly.
  • Do not diagnose, prescribe, infer causation, or add a benefit or risk that the source material does not support.
  • Separate established evidence, preliminary findings, expert judgment, and unknowns.
  • Identify the authority and date for advice that may change during an incident.
  • Flag contradictions or missing clinical review instead of resolving them through prose.

Set the communication contract

  1. Name one primary audience and the situation in which they will receive the material.
  2. State the communication objective as an observable outcome: what the audience should know, decide, or do.
  3. Write one primary message that combines the most important fact with its relevance.
  4. Put that message at the beginning. Do not make readers assemble it from several sections.
  5. Identify the primary action and any deadline, trigger, location, or source of help.

When several audiences need different actions, create separate routes or separate products. Do not dilute the primary message into a list of equally weighted points.

Make action possible

  • Begin each recommendation with a concrete verb and name who should act.
  • Place prerequisites and supplies before the action that depends on them.
  • Explain why an action matters when the reason affects trust, urgency, or adherence.
  • Distinguish required action, recommended action, and optional information.
  • For emergency material, lead with the danger signal and immediate action. Put background after the route to safety.
  • Give a fallback when the primary channel, service, or resource may be unavailable.

Explain health information

  • Use words the audience is likely to use. Keep an exact clinical term when it helps a person recognize what a clinician may say, and explain it at first use.
  • Prefer concrete subjects and active constructions. Name the agency, clinician, condition, or treatment that acts.
  • Use headings that answer audience questions and lists that expose actions or choices.
  • Keep cautions beside the claim or action they qualify.
  • Use a visual only when it carries part of the message; provide a caption or text alternative that states the relevant meaning.

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. 10d ago First seen · 82 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ff07ae3a5c36

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cdc-clear-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks (60 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 845 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 2026-08-30.

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