summary-writer

summary-writer is a skill for Claude Code from paulbaranowski/wild-horses. It costs 80 tokens per session (9,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing pull-request titles and descriptions around the main structural change. A pull request is a proposed code change that reviewers inspect before it is merged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing or revising PR titles and descriptions, especially when the change has one central architectural idea or the PR body will become the commit message.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers understand what changed and why before they read the detailed code diff. It avoids turning the description into a file-by-file changelog.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the wild-pr plugin — 4 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Writing or revising PR titles and descriptions, especially when the change has one central architectural idea or the PR body will become the commit message.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add paulbaranowski/wild-horses
Claude Code
/plugin install wild-pr

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wild-pr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 commands.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,318 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 $0.00080 $0.09318
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.04659
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01864
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00932

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6a939b54289f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summary-writer 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.

plugins/wild-pr/skills/summary-writer/SKILL.md · 772 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 772 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

summary-writer

Write PR descriptions that lead with what changed structurally, not a catalog of edits. The reviewer should understand what changed and why before opening the diff. Per-file detail lives in the commits and in the code. The description gives the reader the mental model that the diff assumes.

Core principle: one idea per PR, stated once, up front. Every PR worth a description has one main structural idea. Find it, then state it in one sentence. Let every other sentence follow from it. If you cannot state the one idea, the PR is either trivial or too big. A trivial PR gets a short description. A PR that is too big should be split.

State the idea directly. Never announce it. The first sentence of the architecture section makes a claim about the system. It does not announce that a claim is coming. Write "Event extraction no longer saves events". Do not write "The core move is...", "The main change here is...", or "At a high level, this PR...". Start talking about the change. Delete the sentence that says you are about to.

Describe the net diff against the base, not the branch's history. The reviewer sees <base>...HEAD on GitHub. That one collapsed change is the only thing the description exists to explain. The branch may contain approaches you tried and reverted, commits that replaced earlier commits, and pivots you made partway through. None of that appears in the diff, so none of it appears in the description. The state before this PR is main. The state after is HEAD. Nothing in between belongs.

Calling this skill

Another skill invoking summary-writer needs only this section. Never restate these rules in the caller. Point at this section instead.

Supply: the branch or PR to describe, and the source issue or plan URL. Also every ambiguous call with the alternatives you considered, and any review dismissals. The last two belong in Decision review. That is this skill's name for the section a caller may know as "Decisions".

Receive: a title and a body. This skill re-derives the title on every run, so an existing title is input, never a default. Use both.

Read the full file on GitHub · 772 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. 11d ago First seen · 772 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 6a939b54289f

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summary-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository paulbaranowski/wild-horses (12 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 9,318 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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