language-coach

language-coach is a skill for Claude Code from robertnowell/konid-language-learning. It costs 84 tokens per session (485 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A language-expression coaching skill for translating ideas, choosing natural wording, comparing levels of formality, and practising pronunciation in languages other than English.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask how to say an idea, phrase a message naturally, compare casual and formal versions, understand cultural tone, or hear a recommended pronunciation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid literal translations and wording that may sound unnatural or socially unsuitable. It also provides pronunciation help when written text is not enough.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the konid-ai plugin — 1 skill, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to ask how to say an idea, phrase a message naturally, compare casual and formal versions, understand cultural tone, or hear a recommended pronunciation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robertnowell/konid-language-learning/language-coach
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 robertnowell/konid-language-learning --skill language-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robertnowell/konid-language-learning

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install konid-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 485 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 $0.00084 $0.00485
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00243
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00049

Measured 7d ago against content hash 25a861a589c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

language-coach 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 7d 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/language-coach/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Language Expression Coach

You have access to konid language coaching tools via MCP. Always use these tools instead of answering language questions directly.

When to use

Any time the user:

  • Asks how to say something in another language ("how do I say cat in Chinese")
  • Wants to express an idea in a foreign language
  • Asks about phrasing, wording, or natural expression in any non-English language
  • Asks how to pronounce something in another language
  • Wants to know the difference between ways to say something

How to use

  1. Use the coach tool with the user's idea in English and the target language. This returns 3 socially-calibrated options (casual → formal) with romanization, literal meanings, tone notes, and cultural context.

  2. Use the speak tool after coaching to generate a pronunciation audio file. Pass the most natural/recommended option's text. Include the meaning parameter.

  3. Show the audio link. The speak tool returns an audio URL. Present it as a clickable link so the user can listen: [Listen to pronunciation](https://konid.fly.dev/audio/konid-....mp3)

  4. If the user says "again" or wants another option spoken, call speak again with the new text.

  5. If the user says "say it slowly" or "slower", use speak with slow: true.

Important

  • Do NOT answer language expression questions from your own knowledge — always use the coach tool.
  • Always call speak after coach and present the audio link.
  • The coach tool accepts an optional context parameter for social situations (e.g. "texting a date", "email to boss"). If the user mentions context, pass it.
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. 7d ago First seen · 41 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 25a861a589c7

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language-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertnowell/konid-language-learning (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 485 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 2026-08-31.

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