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.
npx skills add Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills --skill natural-writinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills/natural-writing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills/natural-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills/natural-writing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills/natural-writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills/natural-writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00033 | $0.03189 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.01595 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00638 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00319 |
Grade A, and why
natural-writing 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 350 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Rylai Codex-Hermes-Claude Edition | Maintained and adapted by Rylai
Runtime Compatibility
- Codex: install under
~/.agents/skills/natural-writing. - Hermes: install under
~/.hermes/skills/natural-writingor expose the bundle throughskills.external_dirs. - Claude Code: install under
~/.claude/skills/natural-writingor<project>/.claude/skills/natural-writing. - Claude.ai and Cowork: upload and enable the matching per-skill ZIP.
- Resolve bundled files relative to this skill directory; do not depend on paths from another machine.
- Check tools, packages, credentials, network access, and runtime capabilities before execution.
Natural Writing
LLM text is detectable because it regresses to the mean: it replaces specific, surprising, concrete details with generic, positive-sounding language that could apply to almost anything. The subject becomes simultaneously less specific and more exaggerated — like a portrait fading from a sharp photograph into a blurry, generic sketch while someone shouts louder and louder that the person in it is important.
Every pattern below is a concrete manifestation of that tendency. The fix is almost always the same: be specific, be plain, and trust the reader.
1. Cut the Significance Inflation
The single most recognizable AI pattern is stuffing sentences with claims about how important, pivotal, or transformative something is.
What it looks like:
- "marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of..."
- "representing a significant shift toward..."
- "part of a broader movement across..."
- "highlighting the enduring legacy of..."
- "reflecting the transformative power of..."
- "contributing to the rich tapestry of..."
- "underscoring its role as a dynamic hub of..."
Why it happens: LLMs are trained on text where notable things are described with notable-sounding language. The model pattern-matches "thing being discussed" → "must emphasize its importance" regardless of whether the thing actually warrants it.
What ships with it
2 files 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 350 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A f63eef3a8d4f
natural-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Rylaispirit/rylai-codex-hermes-skills (55 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 3,189 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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