writing-guidelines

writing-guidelines is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from recomposesh/recompose. It costs 48 tokens per session (270 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of web-design-guidelines, MIT.

A review skill for checking documents and prose against a set of Writing Guidelines. It fetches the latest rules, reads the requested files, and reports violations in file-and-line format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit documents, prose, voice, or tone when you provide files or a file pattern to review.
Why use it?
It shows where writing breaks the required style instead of relying on an informal opinion about tone or clarity.

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/recomposesh/recompose/writing-guidelines
Any agent
npx skills add recomposesh/recompose --skill writing-guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/recomposesh/recompose

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.

agentmods badge for writing-guidelines

README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 270 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 77% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 5d ago against content hash 89a5f5811932, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-guidelines 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.

Origin

This is a copy

77% identical to web-design-guidelines — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/writing-guidelines/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Writing Guidelines

Review files for compliance with Writing Guidelines.

How It Works

  1. Fetch the latest guidelines from the source URL below
  2. Read the specified files (or prompt user for files/pattern)
  3. Check against all rules in the fetched guidelines
  4. Output findings in the terse file:line format

Guidelines Source

Fetch fresh guidelines before each review:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vercel-labs/writing-guidelines/main/command.md

Use WebFetch to retrieve the latest rules. The fetched content contains all the rules and output format instructions.

Usage

When a user provides a file or pattern argument:

  1. Fetch guidelines from the source URL above
  2. Read the specified files
  3. Apply all rules from the fetched guidelines
  4. Output findings using the format specified in the guidelines

If no files specified, ask the user which files to review.

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. 5d ago First seen · 40 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 89a5f5811932

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-guidelines is a skill published in the GitHub repository recomposesh/recompose (27 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 270 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 77% identical to web-design-guidelines, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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