brooker-esque-media-satire

brooker-esque-media-satire is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pantheon-org/tekhne. It costs 180 tokens per session (1,557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for original cynical satire about media, technology, or culture, often built around one extended grotesque comparison and a believable near-future idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a satirical column, monologue, or short story about an app, gadget, television format, news story, or similar subject. It supports escalating a small present-day idea into a darker consequence.
Why use it?
It gives the writing a clear way to develop one unsettling premise instead of relying on disconnected jokes. It also helps translate corporate language into plain meaning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for a satirical column, monologue, or short story about an app, gadget, television format, news story, or similar subject. It supports escalating a small present-day idea into a darker consequence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/brooker-esque-media-satire
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 pantheon-org/tekhne --skill brooker-esque-media-satire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,557 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 $0.00180 $0.01557
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00156

Measured 12d ago against content hash 89103f6b7f52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brooker-esque-media-satire 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 12d 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/comedy/brooker-esque-media-satire/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Misanthropic Media & Technology Satire

Build comedy around a weary, contemptuous narrator dismantling media, technology, or culture through one sustained, escalating metaphor rather than a string of unrelated jokes: the output is new writing, never a reproduction of anyone else's material.

Mindset

Keep the escalation obeying its own machine-like rules: a nightmare that follows believably from a small premise unsettles a reader; breaking that rule once turns the piece silly instead.

When to Use

  • Use this for a cynical column or monologue about a TV format, app, gadget, or news story.
  • Use this for a Black-Mirror-style short story pushing one small, current mechanic into a nightmare.
  • Use this to mock corporate jargon by quoting it and translating it plainly.

When NOT to Use

  • Skip this for mockumentary-style sketches built on character voices rather than narration.
  • Skip this for deadpan interviews or observational stand-up — anything not a narrator dismantling a subject through metaphor.
  • Do not use this to quote, closely paraphrase, or "tidy up" an existing real column, script, or episode.
  • Keep hopeful or triumphant endings out of scope for this skill.

Prerequisites

Before starting, have a mundane subject (a TV format, gadget, app, news story, or social trend) and a target form: rant/column/monologue, or escalating short story.

Workflow

  1. Define the subject — a mundane, recognisable format, gadget, app, or trend.
  2. Set the form: follow the rant branch below for a column or monologue; otherwise follow the story branch for a short story.
  3. Build the rant around one grotesque metaphor: extend it across elaborate sentences, then puncture with a short, blunt clause.
  4. Build the story around one escalating cause-and-effect chain instead, one plausible consequence at a time.
  5. Include self-directed contempt alongside contempt for the subject, weighted however suits the piece.
  6. Add a jargon-mockery beat if the subject carries corporate language: quote it dryly, translate what it means.
  7. Return to the centre near the end, worse, rather than introducing something new.
  8. Keep the ending flat: close on a bleak note, without triumph.
  9. Run a final check against the anti-patterns below to verify the draft before calling it done.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 89103f6b7f52

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brooker-esque-media-satire is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 1,557 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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