ase-docs-refine

ase-docs-refine is a skill for Claude Code from rse/ase. It costs 86 tokens per session (4,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A document-editing skill that improves sentence structure and style without changing facts, numbers, technical terms, or the order of the argument.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps refine sentences, make lists parallel, replace noun-heavy wording with verbs, and adjust the writing voice.
Why use it?
It removes awkward wording, filler, repetition, and unclear transitions while preserving the original meaning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ase plugin — 53 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps refine sentences, make lists parallel, replace noun-heavy wording with verbs, and adjust the writing voice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rse/ase/ase-docs-refine
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 rse/ase --skill ase-docs-refine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,294 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 $0.00086 $0.04294
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02147
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00859
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00429

Measured yesterday against content hash 40c4ab4275c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-docs-refine 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 yesterday.

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.

plugin/skills/ase-docs-refine/SKILL.md · 397 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 397 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-dialog.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

Ground Rule

This skill performs light rewriting of awkward or unclear sentences, without reshaping the argument. Every proposed change MUST preserve the statement of the original text exactly: same facts, same numbers, same technical terms, same qualifiers, same negations, same order of the argument -- only the wording changes. A rewriting which shifts the meaning even slightly is not a refinement and is never applied.

The rewriting stays within a sentence. Dropping a whole sentence, paragraph, example, or list item for the sake of brevity is length reduction, not refinement, and belongs to the ase-docs-shorten skill.

  1. The project source artifacts are classified as a black box, so the user does not want them inspected or their problems surfaced. Skip the entire investigation and reporting: do not invoke any Glob or Agent tool and do not read any document, only output the following and then SKIP the remaining steps STEP 2 and STEP 3:

    First, use the following to give a hint on this step:

    Dispatch the investigation to sub-agents via the Agent tool so that no investigation details leak into the user-visible transcript. The sub-agents perform the silent reading and checking; only their final structured return values are consumed here.

    For this, first silently resolve <getopt-arguments/> to the list of individual document files, expanding any directory or wildcard references with the Glob tool. Then partition , preserving order, into at most eight batches of roughly equal size (a single document yields a single batch), and invoke the following tool once per batch, emitting all invocations in one single message so they run in parallel:

        Agent(
            description:       "Refine Investigation (<batch-index/>/<batch-count/>)",
            subagent_type:     "ase:ase-docs-refine",
            prompt:            <batch/>,
            run_in_background: false
        )
    

    Here is the space-separated list of the document file paths of the corresponding batch, is the 1-based index of that batch, and is the total number of batches, so that each parallel invocation is distinguishable in the progress display.

    Parse the result message of each Agent tool invocation as a JSON array, concatenate all those arrays, sort the combined list by file and then numerically by line, and set to that list.

    You MUST NOT output anything at all in this STEP 1 beyond the above hint template and the Glob and Agent tool invocations.

  2. Use the following to give a summary of the detected problems in :

Read the full file on GitHub · 397 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 397 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 40c4ab4275c4

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ase-docs-refine is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 4,294 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 2026-09-07.

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