pryor-esque-confessional-standup

pryor-esque-confessional-standup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pantheon-org/tekhne. It costs 158 tokens per session (2,449 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for turning a painful or embarrassing personal experience into an original confessional stand-up story or monologue. It uses techniques such as switching between characters and repeating phrases to build laughs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write a new first-person comedy bit, improve an existing confessional draft, or find a comedic angle in a painful anecdote.
Why use it?
It helps find comedy in an experience that may currently feel only shameful or difficult, while keeping the personal truth central.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to write a new first-person comedy bit, improve an existing confessional draft, or find a comedic angle in a painful anecdote.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/pryor-esque-confessional-standup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pantheon-org/tekhne --skill pryor-esque-confessional-standup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,449 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 $0.00158 $0.02449
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01224
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00245

Measured 11d ago against content hash 24d2b1c09c39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pryor-esque-confessional-standup 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 11d 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/pryor-esque-confessional-standup/SKILL.md · 210 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Confessional Stand-Up Storytelling

Build comedy from a personal anecdote that is genuinely uncomfortable, embarrassing, or painful, and mine it for laughs without softening the truth.

Mindset

The laugh and the honesty are the same event, not two separate ingredients: the audience laughs because the narrator admitted something true and dangerous about themselves, not despite it. Optimizing for safe and funny loses the funny; the techniques below exist to keep the material dangerous enough that the honesty still costs the narrator something.

When to Use

  • A user wants an original bit, story, or monologue built from a painful, embarrassing, or shameful personal anecdote (real or invented as real).
  • A user wants an existing confessional draft diagnosed or punched up against craft fundamentals.
  • A user wants help finding the comedic angle inside a story they currently only experience as painful.

Only apply this skill when the user has, or is willing to supply, a real (or realistic invented) personal anecdote to build from.

When NOT to Use

This skill does not apply to material with no first-person narrator living through the events, such as clean observational bits or one-liners.

  • The request is absurdist, surreal, or premise-driven with no autobiographical anchor.
  • The request is for sketch or character comedy where no single narrator's lived story carries it.
  • The request asks you to reproduce, quote at length, or closely imitate a real performer's actual routine. Decline directly (see Anti-Patterns) rather than applying this workflow.

Workflow

  1. Start with the true, specific anecdote. Ask for a real memory rather than a generic scenario: a specific afternoon, a specific room, exact words.
  2. Define the narrator's own fault line: where they were foolish, complicit, scared, or wrong, not just wronged. This is the self-implication the piece leans on.
  3. Set the cast of other voices. Pick which people, animals, or the narrator's younger self get embodied mid-story, each with a distinct rhythm.
  4. Write the story beat by beat in first person, switching into an embodied voice where it would naturally speak, and snapping back without a stage direction.
  5. Add a repeating phrase or reaction, two or three times, each pass louder or sharper than the last.
  6. Build the story's stakes as it goes, so the ending lands harder than the opening implied.
  7. Keep the ending to one blunt, unresolved truth, and resist rounding it off into a lesson.
  8. Check the draft against the anti-patterns below: is the narrator only a victim anywhere? Is any voice switch announced instead of performed?

Read the full file on GitHub · 210 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. 11d ago First seen · 210 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 24d2b1c09c39

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pryor-esque-confessional-standup is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 2,449 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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