nobrainer-writing

nobrainer-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nobrainer-tech/nobrainer-tech-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,972 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for producing clear, compact text aimed at a specific reader. It covers drafting, shortening, rewriting, and reviewing user-facing prose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or revise messages, comments, documents, README files, reports, summaries, emails, posts, and release notes.
Why use it?
It helps preserve important meaning while removing filler, confusion, and unnecessary words. It keeps documents useful for readers who need to understand, decide, or act.

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 nobrainer-tech-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or revise messages, comments, documents, README files, reports, summaries, emails, posts, and release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nobrainer-tech/nobrainer-tech-skills/nobrainer-writing
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 nobrainer-tech/nobrainer-tech-skills --skill nobrainer-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nobrainer-tech/nobrainer-tech-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nobrainer-tech-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,972 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00101 $0.02972
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01486
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00594
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00297

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9795586d1e25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nobrainer-writing scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl` command, including method, URL, all captured headers and body. Put the
skills/nobrainer-writing/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NoBrainer Writing

Produce high-signal prose that helps a specific reader understand, decide or act. Treat the Pareto idea as a direction: preserve nearly all decision-relevant value while using far fewer words. It is not permission to remove evidence, conditions or nuance merely to hit an arbitrary ratio.

The protocol, field names and examples in this public skill are written in English. Match the requested output language; when English is requested, use plain, idiomatic English rather than a literal translation.

This skill owns prose quality. nobrainer-research owns missing or current external facts, nobrainer-decide owns consequential choices, and nobrainer-build owns behavioral code changes and repository integration. A small text-only edit can stay here. Do not invoke this skill for a one-sentence answer that is already clear, specific and complete.

Use BRIEF for a short actionable artifact: a comment, bug report, feature issue, user story, status update or one clear request. It is a mode of this skill, not a new skill. Read references/brief-artifacts.md for the matching shape and examples before drafting.

Read references/research.md only when changing this protocol, auditing its rationale or comparing another writing method. Ordinary writing runs should not spend context on the research record.

Choose one mode

  • DRAFT: create prose from an established brief and verified source material.
  • COMPRESS: shorten existing prose while preserving its material meaning.
  • REWRITE: improve clarity, structure, voice and naturalness without changing the factual contract.
  • REVIEW: identify only material prose defects and propose the smallest useful correction; do not rewrite merely to express a preference.
  • BRIEF: create or compress one short actionable artifact. Choose exactly one shape from the reference: COMMENT, BUG, ISSUE, USER_STORY or REQUEST.

If the user did not name a mode, infer the smallest one that satisfies the request. A request to "humanize" means REWRITE, not detector evasion or the injection of fake mistakes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 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. 7d ago Changed · +88 lines · +9 tokens per session 9795586d1e25
  2. 11d ago First seen · 174 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A a756274e8a55

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nobrainer-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository nobrainer-tech/nobrainer-tech-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,972 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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