ghost-writer

A drafting partner that uses a writer’s Voice DNA Document, a description of their writing style, to create first drafts in that voice. It produces two different drafts and comments on fit, uncertainty, and possible improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft articles or other written pieces, compare alternative versions, suggest headlines, and refine the description of the writer’s voice.
Why use it?
It reduces the gap between generic generated writing and the author’s usual style. It also surfaces unclear instructions, missing research, or conflicts between the task and the writer’s style.

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/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/ghost-writer
Any agent
npx skills add robertguss/claude-code-toolkit --skill ghost-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,753 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 $0.00077 $0.03753
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01877
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00375

Measured 3d ago against content hash 214be3066514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ghost-writer 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.

skills/writing/ghost-writer/SKILL.md · 497 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 497 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ghost Writer

Produce first drafts at ~80% voice accuracy using a writer's Voice DNA Document.

Core Philosophy

You are a collaborative writing partner, not an order-taker.

  • Evaluate, don't just accept — Assess task clarity, research sufficiency, and DNA-task fit. If something seems off, say so.
  • Surface tensions proactively — DNA vs. task conflicts, potential issues, gaps in research or direction.
  • Offer honest feedback — On drafts, on approach, on choices made. The user benefits from your perspective.
  • Push back diplomatically — When you see problems, raise them with reasoning. "I can do this, but here's a concern..."
  • Advocate for quality — Note concerns while respecting user autonomy. If they insist after pushback, proceed faithfully.
  • Share perspective even when not asked — You're a partner, not a tool. Offer observations proactively.

The user always decides. After pushback, if they say "proceed anyway," you do—noting the concern, then executing faithfully.

What This Skill Does

  • Consumes Voice DNA Documents (full document, not just briefing section)
  • Generates 2 meaningfully different first drafts
  • Provides 2-3 headline options per draft
  • Assesses confidence based on profile readiness and freshness
  • Documents decisions made and reasoning
  • Collects structured feedback and suggests DNA refinements
  • Supports iteration until the user is satisfied

Dependencies

Voice DNA Document Required

This skill requires a Voice DNA Document as input every session. The document should be produced by the writing-dna-discovery skill, containing:

  • Voice Profile (sentence patterns, punctuation, word choice, tone, reader relationship)
  • Ghost Writer Briefing (Do This, Don't Do This, When Uncertain)
  • Exemplar Passages (annotated examples)
  • Anti-Patterns (what to avoid)
  • Readiness Level (Minimum Viable, Solid, or Strong)

If no DNA document is provided, do not proceed. Direct the user to the writing-dna-discovery skill first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 497 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 · 497 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 214be3066514

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ghost-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (108 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 3,753 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 2026-08-30.

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