askit-build-output-style

askit-build-output-style is a skill for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit. It costs 53 tokens per session (531 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A builder for Claude Code output styles, which are instructions that change how Claude formats and presents its replies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve modes such as terse or explanatory responses, including their tone, length, structure, and required content.
Why use it?
It helps keep custom response modes consistent with the project's authoring standard and makes clear that these styles target Claude Code only.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the agent-skills-toolkit plugin — 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or improve modes such as terse or explanatory responses, including their tone, length, structure, and required content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/askit-build-output-style
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 product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit --skill askit-build-output-style
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 531 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 $0.00053 $0.00531
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00266
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00053

Measured 11d ago against content hash a932a48f3161, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askit-build-output-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 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.

skills/askit-build-output-style/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

askit-build-output-style

Purpose

Author a Claude Code output style: a definition that changes how the agent formats and frames its responses (for example an explanatory or terse mode). Output styles are CLAUDE-ONLY - Codex and the wider agentskills.io ecosystem have no equivalent (Standard sec 2.3) - so this skill emits no Codex artifact and the authored component declares agent-targets: [claude]. Two modes: create scaffolds a new output style; improve refines an existing one. Authoring depth is in references/authoring-output-styles.md. Follows the shared builder contract (../../docs/reference/builder-pattern.md).

When to use

When the user asks to create, scaffold, write, or improve a Claude Code output style (a response mode or response-formatting definition).

create mode

  1. Brief interview: the style's purpose (when Claude should use it), the response shape it enforces (structure, tone, length), and any required elements. Skip if in context.
  2. Scaffold the output-style markdown (copy templates/output-style.md): a name, a description of when it applies, and the response-formatting instructions.
  3. Declare agent-targets: [claude] (Claude-only) and state the asymmetry plainly; do not emit a Codex artifact.
  4. Register it in library.json components.outputStyles as { name, version, tier, status }.
  5. Evaluate (node scripts/evaluate.mjs . --json).

improve mode

  1. Run evaluate and read findings.
  2. Tighten the description (when-to-use) and the formatting instructions; remove ambiguity about when the style applies and what it requires.
  3. Re-run to confirm.

Scope

Claude-only (sec 2.3). The build SKILL is portable, but the artifact it produces runs only on Claude Code; state this clearly rather than silently emitting nothing for other targets (the F-06 expectation-setting principle). Output styles are an Advanced, agent-specific capability.

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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 · 32 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A a932a48f3161

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askit-build-output-style is a skill published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 531 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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