writing-skills

writing-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,258 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating reliable skills, commands, and agent definitions for Claude Code. It uses test prompts first, including examples that should trigger the skill and near-misses that should not.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing a new skill or agent definition to define triggers, expected behavior, edge cases, and a minimal instruction set, then improve it through testing.
Why use it?
It reduces accidental triggering, unclear instructions, and inconsistent behavior by testing the skill's boundaries before finalizing it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when writing a new skill or agent definition to define triggers, expected behavior, edge cases, and a minimal instruction set, then improve it through testing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pixel-process-ug/superkit-agents/writing-skills
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 Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents --skill writing-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,258 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 $0.00033 $0.02258
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00903
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00452
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00226

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6503fa9de294, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-skills 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.

templates/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md · 238 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 238 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Skills

Overview

Create effective, well-tested Claude Code skills that trigger reliably, load efficiently, and produce consistent results. This skill enforces a TDD approach to skill creation — define test prompts first, write the minimal skill, then harden against misfire and rationalization.

This is a RIGID skill. Every step must be followed exactly. No shortcuts.

Phase 1: Define Test Prompts (RED)

[HARD-GATE] Before writing any skill content, define the prompts that should trigger it.

Write 3-5 test prompts:

# Test Type Purpose Example
1 Obvious trigger Should clearly match "Create a new React component with tests"
2 Subtle trigger Should also match "I need a reusable button"
3 Near-miss Should NOT match "Review this component code"
4 Edge case Define expected behavior "Create a component and write its docs"
5 Ambiguous Define which skill wins "Set up the frontend"

Document expected behavior for each:

Test prompt: "Create a new React component with tests"
Expected: Should trigger component-creation skill
Should NOT trigger: testing-strategy, code-review, writing-skills

STOP — Do NOT proceed to Phase 2 until all test prompts are documented.

Phase 2: Write Minimal SKILL.md (GREEN)

Create the minimum skill definition that passes all test prompts from Phase 1.

Required Structure

Every SKILL.md MUST contain ALL of these elements:

Element Required Purpose
Frontmatter (name, description) Yes Identification and trigger matching
CSO-optimized description Yes Starts with "Use when...", lists trigger conditions
Overview (2-3 sentences) Yes Purpose and value
Multi-phase process with STOP markers Yes Numbered phases with clear actions
Decision tables Yes Tables for choosing between approaches
Anti-patterns / Common mistakes table Yes "What NOT to do" section
Anti-rationalization guards Yes HARD-GATE or "Do NOT skip" markers
Integration points table Yes How skill connects to other skills
Concrete examples Yes Code/command examples where non-obvious
Skill type declaration Yes RIGID or FLEXIBLE at the end

Read the full file on GitHub · 238 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. 1mo ago First seen · 238 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 6503fa9de294

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writing-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,258 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 2026-09-03.

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