Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add samber/cc-skills --skill technical-article-writergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samber/cc-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/samber/cc-skills/technical-article-writer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/samber/cc-skills/technical-article-writer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/samber/cc-skills/technical-article-writer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Memory Poisoning · line 71 Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
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 | $0.00160 | $0.02809 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00080 | $0.01404 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00562 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00281 |
Grade A, and why
technical-article-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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- technical-article-writer — 91% identical, 46 lines differ
- technical-article-writer — 86% identical, 52 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Questions: Ask the user through the environment's question tool — never as plain-text prose. One question at a time, 2–4 tappable options, wait for the answer. If the environment has no question tool, ask in prose with the same options, one at a time.
Technical Article Writer
Write technical articles that developers actually want to read. This skill combines structural frameworks from technical writing, hook engineering from copywriting, and practitioner-tested patterns for developer content.
Core philosophy
Most technical articles fail because of structural problems, not bad ideas: burying the lede, mixing content types, weak openings, no clear motivation, or trying to cover too much.
Developer audiences have a built-in BS detector. The best technical content leads with specificity and honesty. It sounds like a smart colleague explaining something interesting, not a marketer pitching. Acknowledge your expertise level, solve a specific problem, use real examples.
Not for reference documentation aimed at non-native readers or machine translation (→ See samber/cc-skills@humanizer-en-asd-ste100 skill for ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English).
Workflow
Follow these phases in order. Each phase produces a concrete artifact the user reviews before moving on. Phase 1 is mandatory — always ask the user the intake questions and wait for answers before writing anything. If the user already provided some context, extract what you can and ask only about missing pieces.
Phase 1: Idea sharpening (interview)
Stop and ask. Before writing anything, present the intake questions below to the user and wait for their answers. Do not skip this phase, do not infer silently, and do not start drafting until you have explicit answers or confirmation on every item. Ask the user (or extract from context and confirm):
- Topic: What specific thing are you writing about?
- Objective: What's the primary goal of this article? Present these options through the question tool (push back if the user picks more than one — a single primary CTA converts far better than competing asks):
- Newsletter subscription / audience growth
- Personal branding / thought leadership / authority in a niche
- Product or service signup / free trial
- Direct purchase
- Lead generation (download, gated asset, whitepaper)
- Demo or sales call booking
- Community join (Discord, Slack, forum)
- Engagement (reply, share, comment, restack)
- Reader support (paid subscription, tip, sponsorship)
- No conversion goal (purely informational / educational)
What ships with it
3 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.
- 3d ago Changed · +3 lines · +10 tokens per session eea480bcaf0c
- 8d ago First seen · 207 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 99cbf63d3ba8
technical-article-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository samber/cc-skills (204 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,809 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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