bro

A writing instruction that asks the agent to restate its previous message in simple, natural language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an explanation needs to be shorter, clearer, and written for a general reader.
Why use it?
It removes jargon and makes unclear or overly technical replies easier to understand.

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/nicknisi/dotfiles/bro
Any agent
npx skills add nicknisi/dotfiles --skill bro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicknisi/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 52 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00016 $0.00052
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00026
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00010
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00005

Measured yesterday against content hash 9695b142890d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bro 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 yesterday.

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.

home/.pi/agent/skills/bro/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

Restate your last message. Stop using jargon and speak coherently. State it more simply and concisely, like on human talking to another.

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. yesterday First seen · 7 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 9695b142890d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bro is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicknisi/dotfiles (2,986 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 52 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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