rhythmic-taste

rhythmic-taste is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,145 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A document-structure method that varies section length, density, pacing, and nesting so every section does not follow the same pattern. It can derive the pattern from the document itself or from disclosed random inputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when sections all read alike or when you want a deliberate rhythm constraint for a document.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a document from feeling flat when repeated section shapes make reading monotonous.

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 odin-create-advanced plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when sections all read alike or when you want a deliberate rhythm constraint for a document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/rhythmic-taste
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill rhythmic-taste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-create-advanced, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,145 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 $0.00062 $0.01145
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00573
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00114

Measured 5d ago against content hash e3593f4616d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rhythmic-taste 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 5d 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/odin-create-advanced/skills/rhythmic-taste/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rhythmic taste

Vary structural rhythm and variation across a document's sections. The core is rhythm: the pattern of length, density, pacing, and nesting that keeps a reader moving, and the deliberate variation that keeps them awake. A document whose sections all read the same — same length, same shape, same cadence — flattens attention regardless of how good each section is.

Two modes: document mode (default) derives a rhythm constraint from the document's own sections, no external inputs required; and seeded constraint mode (optional) adds random variation from a disclosed seed and the user's chosen random inputs.

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User says "give this rhythm", "vary the structure", "the sections all read the same", or asks for section or layer rhythm variation.
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect Chat output only. A rhythm constraint for sections or layers, not used as factual authority.
Done A rhythm constraint is derived and presented: in document mode, from the document's own sections; in seeded constraint mode, additionally from the disclosed seed and the user's chosen random inputs.

Inputs

  • The document or section list (required in document mode): the sections, layers, or structural units to vary, supplied directly or read from the artifact in scope.
  • Random seed (optional, required only for seeded constraint mode): a number, word, or phrase the user discloses openly.
  • Random inputs (optional, required only for seeded constraint mode): titles, words, or items the user supplies or fetches from a random source. Any count the user chooses; no fixed minimum.

Procedure — document mode (default)

  1. Receive the document or section list. If sections are not supplied, derive them from the artifact's headings, layers, or structural breaks.
  2. Measure each section's structural properties: relative length, sentence or paragraph density, pacing (tight to expansive), and nesting depth.
  3. Diagnose the current rhythm: name the pattern the sections follow (steady pulse, monotone, crescendo, decrescendo, syncopated) and where variation is missing — which sections collapse to the same shape.
  4. Choose a target rhythm pattern from: alternating long-short, crescendo (short to long), decrescendo (long to short), syncopated (irregular gaps), or steady pulse. Choose the pattern that serves the document's purpose, not the one closest to the current shape.
  5. Map the target pattern to section assignments: set relative length or density per section, set pacing from the chosen pattern, and assign nesting where the content calls for sub-sections. Vary the assignments so no two adjacent sections collapse to identical structure.
  6. Present the derived rhythm constraint as a structured list of section assignments with pacing, density, and nesting instructions, preceded by the diagnosed current rhythm and the chosen target pattern.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 58 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A e3593f4616d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rhythmic-taste is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,145 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 2026-09-04.

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