generate-bio

A guided question-and-answer tool for writing a speaker or author biography. It lets you choose the length, point of view, and emphasis on your current employer or wider career.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create bios for conference profiles, LinkedIn, team pages, personal websites, podcast introductions, or book jackets.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide what to include and how to fit a biography to a specific use. It also helps keep the wording consistent with your preferred perspective and focus.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phazonoverload/devadvokit/generate-bio
Any agent
npx skills add phazonoverload/devadvokit --skill generate-bio
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phazonoverload/devadvokit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 954 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00045 $0.00954
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00095

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0a8f31284027, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-bio 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 2d 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/generate-bio/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before doing anything else:

  1. Check if ~/.devadvokit.md exists.
  2. If it does, read it silently and use it throughout this skill.
  3. If it does not, stop and tell the user: "I need your DevRel context before I can run this skill. Please run /setup-devadvokit first."

Q&A

Ask these questions one at a time. Wait for each answer before asking the next.

  1. What's this bio for? (e.g. conference speaker profile, LinkedIn about section, company team page, personal website, podcast guest intro, book jacket — be specific if you can)

  2. How long should it be? Choose one:

    • One-liner — a single sentence (~20–30 words)
    • Short — one tight paragraph (~50–75 words)
    • Medium — two paragraphs (~100–150 words)
    • Long — three or more paragraphs (~200–300 words) — or give a specific word count or character limit if the platform requires one.
  3. First person ("I'm a developer advocate...") or third person ("Jane is a developer advocate...")?

  4. On a scale of 1 to 5, how much should this bio focus on your current employer?

    • 1 — employer-led: opens with your company, leads with what you do there, frames your expertise through your current role. Suits company team pages, sponsored content, and employer-brand contexts.
    • 3 — balanced: current role is present and clear, but career-wide expertise and your broader identity carry equal weight. Suits most conference and speaker bios.
    • 5 — employer-light: current role is mentioned but not the focus. Leads with career-wide expertise, personal brand, and what you're known for across the industry. Suits personal sites, independent speaking, and contexts where you want to be seen as more than your current job.

    Answer with a number. If unsure, 3 is a safe default for most conference bios.


Generating the bio

Use the answers to the Q&A and the context from ~/.devadvokit.md to produce the bio. Apply the scale as follows:

Scale 1: Open with the company and current role. Frame expertise in terms of what the speaker does at this employer. Previous roles and career-wide specialisms appear only if space allows, and only in support of the current role. Location and hobbies may appear if the format and length suit it, but the employer is the primary anchor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 2d ago First seen · 69 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 0a8f31284027

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-bio is a skill published in the GitHub repository phazonoverload/devadvokit (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 954 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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