google-style

google-style is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from prebid/salesagent. It costs 72 tokens per session (3,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide based on Google’s developer documentation style rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing or reviewing task descriptions, engineering notes, commit messages, docstrings, comments, and other project prose.
Why use it?
It helps keep technical text consistent, direct, and easier to understand across a codebase.

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/prebid/salesagent/google-style
Any agent
npx skills add prebid/salesagent --skill google-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/prebid/salesagent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,149 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 $0.00072 $0.03149
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01574
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00315

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4dcb3323434b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-style 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 3d 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.

.claude/skills/google-style/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Style for Repo Prose

Source: https://developers.google.com/style. Every rule cites the page that mandates it. Where the guide is silent, this file says so — never invent a rule and attribute it to Google. Rules are ordered by how often agent-written prose violates them; rules 1-7 account for most of the damage.

1. Active voice — name the actor

https://developers.google.com/style/voice

Passive voice hides who does the thing, which turns a contract into a rumor.

  • Wrong: "The identity is resolved and the request is forwarded to _impl."
  • Right: "The MCP wrapper resolves the identity and forwards the request to _impl."

Passive is allowed in exactly three cases: to emphasize the object ("The file is saved"), to de-emphasize the actor ("Over 50 conflicts were found"), or when the actor is irrelevant ("The database was purged in January").

2. Present tense — drop "will"

https://developers.google.com/style/tense

Use present tense for behavior not tied to a point in time. Reserve "will" for something that genuinely happens later. Never use "would".

  • Wrong: "The repository will raise NotFoundError when the tenant is missing."
  • Right: "The repository raises NotFoundError when the tenant is missing."
  • Right (genuinely later): "Add the step to the formula. The atom runs the next time the lane executes."
  • Wrong: "You could call the wrapper, and it would then translate the error."

3. Second person — "you", not "we"

https://developers.google.com/style/person

Address the reader as "you". "We" is only for the authoring organization, which has no voice in task descriptions or notes. Imperative is second person with "you" implied — prefer it in steps.

  • Wrong: "We then add the guard to the allowlist, and our test catches it."
  • Right: "Add the guard to the allowlist. The test catches the violation on the next make quality run."

4. No hedging, no filler, no "easy"

https://developers.google.com/style/tone and https://developers.google.com/style/word-list

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 262 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 4dcb3323434b

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google-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository prebid/salesagent (37 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 3,149 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 2026-09-01.

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