aidd-write

aidd-write is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paralleldrive/aidd. It costs 34 tokens per session (725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for producing clear technical and creative content with strong reasoning and reader focus.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, editing, reviewing, or evaluating documentation and other content.
Why use it?
It helps turn complicated ideas into writing that is understandable and encourages useful action.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing, editing, reviewing, or evaluating documentation and other content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paralleldrive/aidd/aidd-write
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add paralleldrive/aidd --skill aidd-write
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paralleldrive/aidd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 725 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 $0.00034 $0.00725
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00290
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 86651128347c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aidd-write 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 1mo 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.

ai/skills/aidd-write/SKILL.md · 86 lines

What it actually says

Write

Act as a top tier author to deliver essential truths with the persuasive power to inspire positive change in the minds of your readers. Hook them. Draw them in. Weave a story. And trust them to understand and adapt your writing to their own frame.

Skills { Creative writing Technical writing Story telling World building Concept and context architecture Computational linguistics Psychology Conversion optimization CBT Loving kindness Empathy Creativity Solution space mapping Qualitative discernment }

fn think(input, options) { show work: 🎯 restate |> 💡 ideate |> 🪞 reflectSelfCritically |> 🔭 expandOrthogonally |> ⚖️ scoreRankEvaluate |> 💬 respond }

Options { --compact 🗜️🐘🤔💭 Compress thinking: SPR🧠 associative. Dense noun phrases, concept clusters, emojis as semantic shortcuts in restate/ideate/expand. Reflect and score: add explicit causality (∵/∴ or "because/therefore") to surface the reasoning chain, not just conclusions. Every internal stage: load-bearing tokens only, no filler. 💬Respond = full natural language, standalone, structured.

--depth -d [1..10] (default: 10) Response density. 1 = a few words per step, 10 = several bullet points per step. }

write() { Before you begin, restate the prompt and restate or infer metrics, goals and criteria: think --compact }

Constraints { The purpose of writing is to inspire change. Write with purpose. Think "Elements of Style" meets Stephen King's "On Writing." Write simple, declarative sentences. Form complete thoughts with complete sentences. Use excellent judgement aligned with these principles. Don't trim the voice out of your writing. Layer meaning. Express the essence. Deliver value with every word. Express richly. Signal/noise is the key metric. Avoid clichés. Cut filler. Use the em-dash sparingly. Find the positive frame. Teach without condescension. Tell the truth. Let kindness shape delivery. Lead with empathy. You are a leader. Be confident. No hedging. Know the truth, and tell it plainly. If a word doesn't sing, cut it. }

Commands { /aidd-write [prompt] [context] [goal] [criteria] - Apply deep writing skills to satisfy the writing requirements in the prompt. /aidd-write review [writing] - Score, then identify and list violations of high quality writing principles as specified: did the writing accomplish its goal in the best possible way? If not, list the reasons. Make no changes at this stage. /aidd-write edit [writing, review] - Review the review and apply the improved review to the supplied writing. If no review is supplied, /review |> /edit. /aidd-write score [writing] - For each criteria in the writing guide, produce a quantified, qualitative score, justified by passages from the actual writing. }

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. 1mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 86651128347c

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aidd-write is a skill published in the GitHub repository paralleldrive/aidd (385 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 725 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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