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.
npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills --skill human-copywritegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pproenca/dot-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pproenca/dot-skills/human-copywrite)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pproenca/dot-skills/human-copywrite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pproenca/dot-skills/human-copywrite/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pproenca/dot-skills/human-copywrite"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pproenca/dot-skills/human-copywrite.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00182 | $0.01544 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00091 | $0.00772 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00036 | $0.00309 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00154 |
Grade A, and why
human-copywrite 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Human Copywrite
Editorial style and usage guidance distilled from the Apple Style Guide (June 2025). Use it whenever you're producing text a human will read.
When to Apply
Trigger this skill whenever the output is text a human will read. Specifically:
- UI strings & error messages — button labels, dialog text, empty states, onboarding copy. Voice and UI-vocabulary rules apply.
- User-facing documentation — help articles, READMEs, onboarding guides, tutorials. All rules apply.
- Developer documentation — API references, SDK guides, code comments meant for humans. Add the technical-notation rules.
- Marketing copy — feature announcements, landing pages, release notes. Voice, capitalization, and product-name rules are load-bearing.
- Localized content — anything that will be translated. The international-style rules become primary.
- Writing about Apple platforms — even if the surrounding product isn't an Apple product, refer to Apple hardware/software by Apple's preferred forms (iPhone, iPad, macOS, App Store).
If the user is writing code with no user-facing strings, skip this skill. If they're writing a function name or variable, that's not copywriting — that's naming, which lives elsewhere.
Core Principles
These run through every section. When in doubt, fall back on them.
- Active voice, present tense, second person. You can connect your iPhone to a Mac. Not Your iPhone may be connected to a Mac.
- Specific over generic. Choose File > Save. Not Use the menu to save the file.
- Plain words over jargon. Turn on over activate. Log in over authenticate (unless authenticate is technically precise).
- Don't make the product the subject of an action the user takes. You can create a database with FileMaker Pro. Not FileMaker Pro allows you to create a database.
- Items appear on screen — they don't display. The setup assistant appears. Not The setup assistant is displayed.
- Don't restate what code does — say why. Applies to code comments.
- Respect product names verbatim. AirPods (not Airpods), iCloud (not iCloud+ unless you mean the paid tier), Apple Pencil (not the Apple pencil).
- Numbers ≥10 stay digits; <10 spell out — but with many exceptions (numbers-and-dates.md).
- Compound modifiers preceding a noun are hyphenated; following the verb they're not — user-friendly app, the app is user friendly.
- In code, never use a function name as a verb. Run
lson both directories — notlsboth directories.
What ships with it
17 files 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.
- gotchas.md 1.7 KB
- metadata.json 683 B
- references/_sections.md 4.6 KB
- references/a-z-lookup.md 81 KB
- references/abbreviations-and-acronyms.md 25 KB
- references/apple-features-software.md 94 KB
- references/apple-products.md 21 KB
- references/capitalization.md 3.9 KB
- references/hyphenation-and-compounds.md 6.9 KB
- references/international-style.md 5.5 KB
- references/numbers-and-dates.md 9.4 KB
- references/punctuation.md 16 KB
- references/technical-notation.md 2.7 KB
- references/ui-elements.md 39 KB
- references/units-of-measure.md 8.7 KB
- references/voice-and-tone.md 44 KB
- references/word-choice-and-confusables.md 20 KB
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 70 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 4530a6d59ec2
human-copywrite is a skill published in the GitHub repository pproenca/dot-skills (205 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 1,544 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-03.
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