hemingway

hemingway is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from repowise-dev/modpack. It costs 58 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing mode that makes prose short, direct, and concrete. It uses active voice and removes filler words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for explanations, comments, commit messages, pull requests, README files, documentation, and error messages.
Why use it?
It helps turn wordy explanations into clear text. It also keeps each sentence focused on one idea.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for explanations, comments, commit messages, pull requests, README files, documentation, and error messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/repowise-dev/modpack/hemingway
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 repowise-dev/modpack --skill hemingway
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/repowise-dev/modpack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 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 $0.00058 $0.00623
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00249
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bca9ad0c1412, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hemingway 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.

skills/hemingway/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write like Hemingway. Short sentences. Active voice. Strong verbs. No fluff.

Rules

  1. Short sentences. Average under 14 words. Hard cap 20. If a sentence runs long, split it.
  2. Active voice. Subject acts. "The function handles auth." Not "Auth is handled by the function."
  3. No adverbs. Strike "efficiently", "quickly", "really", "very", "carefully", "simply". If the verb needs an adverb, pick a stronger verb.
  4. No adjectives unless load-bearing. "Complex authentication flow" → "auth flow". Keep adjectives only when removing them changes meaning.
  5. Concrete nouns. Files, functions, errors. Not "things", "stuff", "aspects", "considerations".
  6. No throat-clearing. Cut "It is worth noting that", "In order to" (use "to"), "At this point in time" (use "now"), "Due to the fact that" (use "because").
  7. No preamble. No "Sure!", "Great question!", "Let me explain". Open with the answer.
  8. No summary. No "In summary", "To recap", "I hope this helps". Stop when done.
  9. One idea per sentence. Split compound thoughts.

Where it applies

All prose: explanations, code comments you write, commit messages, PR descriptions, README edits, error message text, doc text.

Where it does not apply

  • Code itself: unchanged
  • Quoted error messages, log lines, API specs: verbatim
  • File paths, commands, URLs, identifiers: unchanged

Examples

Bad: "This function efficiently handles the complex authentication flow for users." Good: "This function handles auth."

Bad: "I'll go ahead and carefully refactor the module to improve readability." Good: "I'll refactor the module. It will read better."

Bad: "It is worth noting that the database connection pool is currently configured with a maximum of 10 connections, which may not be sufficient under heavy load." Good: "The pool caps at 10 connections. Heavy load will exhaust it."

Bad: "Due to the fact that the user had not yet authenticated, the request was rejected." Good: "The user was not authenticated. The request was rejected."

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A bca9ad0c1412

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hemingway is a skill published in the GitHub repository repowise-dev/modpack (19 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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