handbook: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/audiobook/SKILL.md

audiobook is a skill for Claude Code from nicograef/handbook. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for researching and writing an explanatory audiobook about a software project or another subject, then packaging it as an EPUB for ElevenReader. An EPUB is a standard ebook file, and ElevenReader is an app for listening to written content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Learning a codebase or topic by listening, creating research-backed chapters, and producing an ElevenReader-ready audiobook manuscript.
Why use it?
Technical documentation often explains what a system does without building a listener’s understanding of why it works that way. This organizes research, structure, writing, and review before producing the ebook.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is nicograef/handbook's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on handbook itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything handbook configures →

Part of the handbook plugin — 23 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nicograef/handbook. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicograef/handbook/main/.claude/skills/audiobook/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicograef/handbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,759 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.
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 $0.00072 $0.01759
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00879
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00176

Measured 3d ago against content hash c52bb4d77bf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audiobook 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/audiobook/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Audiobook subject: $ARGUMENTS

Never write chapters before step 7 is complete. Research and structure first.

Workflow

Understand

  1. Draft the scope. Derive it from the argument and the repository.
    • A whole-repo subject narrows to the subsystem carrying the most concepts.
    • Length is never a scoping input.
  2. Inventory. Read the code and docs that touch the subject.
    • List every concept in play, each with the file where it lives.
    • Record decisions the code makes silently. They become chapter hooks.
  3. Name the gaps. State what the docs assume but never explain.
    • This gap is the book. Anything already documented is filler.
    • Separate three kinds: missing theory, undocumented decision, open question.

Confirm

  1. The one checkpoint. Ask before the first expensive step, never after.
    • Earlier the proposal would be a guess, with no inventory behind it.
    • Later the research is already paid for, and a wrong scope wastes all of it.
    • Research is the first expensive step. The checkpoint guards exactly that line.
    • Three items only: scope boundary, guiding questions, prior knowledge.
    • Offer prior-knowledge levels the user can pick without thinking.
    • For example: new to the domain; working knowledge but no theory; solid theory, only this system is new.
    • Propose a concrete default for all three items. Never ask an open question.
    • A bare "ja" must be a complete, valid answer that starts the run.
    • Present the scope as in-scope and out-of-scope, both named explicitly.
    • List the guiding questions as the questions the book will answer.
    • Ask all three in one interaction. Never split them across turns.
    • Never ask about what is derived, not decided:

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 3d ago Changed · -3 lines c52bb4d77bf5
  2. 7d ago First seen · 145 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 8863f3b83add

Subscribe to this mod's changes

audiobook is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicograef/handbook (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,759 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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