essay

essay is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from serejaris/kimi-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for personal, literary, and argumentative essays that focuses on voice, ideas, and prose rather than formal reports or academic research papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, draft, review, and assemble essays and other reflective or persuasive nonfiction prose.
Why use it?
It helps writers develop a clear line of thought and polished prose while preserving the essay's intended voice and style.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python skills/general-writing/scripts/check_wordcount.py <file> --min {target} --lang auto.

Good fit Use it to plan, draft, review, and assemble essays and other reflective or persuasive nonfiction prose.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serejaris/kimi-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serejaris/kimi-skills/essay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,543 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 $0.00055 $0.02543
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01272
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00509
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00254

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c77df857d02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

essay 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 9d 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/general-writing/essay/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Essay Writing

Orchestrator dispatches all creation and review work to subagents. Before creation, copy user-uploaded files to /mnt/agents/output/research/.

Sub-skill of general-writing. Inherits shared creative writing principles, anti-AI discipline, and quality gate framework.

CRITICAL — Review → Fix Brief → Dispatched Subagent: When a review finds issues, translate them into a detailed fix brief (file paths, quoted findings, expected outcome, scope boundary, self-check) and dispatch a fresh essay_writer subagent to apply the fix. Never use inline sed/edit_file fixes.

CRITICAL — Anti-Read-Loop Rule: The orchestrator must dispatch its first subagent (essay_writer) within 10 iterations. If the orchestrator has spent 10+ iterations only reading files without creating any subagent, it is in a read-loop. Stop reading, draft your conception from what you have, and dispatch the writer immediately.

CRITICAL — .docx Delivery: Every completed essay must be converted to .docx using skills/docx/SKILL.md. Never end a session with raw .md files and no .docx deliverable.

File Paths

Output: /mnt/agents/output/
  {project_name}.essay.md               # Final essay
  research/                              # User uploads (source material, references)

Trigger Keywords

散文, 随笔, essay, personal essay, 杂文, prose, 小品文, 议论文, 抒情散文, 叙事散文, op-ed, 评论, commentary, reflection, thought leadership, 洞见, insight essay, 公众号文章, 小红书


Workflow Decision Tree

User Query
  │
  ├─ Provides draft + asks for revision → Stage 3 → Stage 4
  ├─ Specifies type/theme clearly → Stage 1 → Stage 2 → Stage 3 → Stage 4
  └─ Vague request → Infer parameters (see below) → Stage 1 → Stage 2 → Stage 3 → Stage 4

Infer essay type, audience, platform, length, and language from the user's request. The orchestrator analyzes and infers all parameters autonomously; for complex requests, deploy a subagent to analyze requirements in depth. Never prompt the user for clarification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 9d ago First seen · 202 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1c77df857d02

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essay is a skill published in the GitHub repository serejaris/kimi-skills (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,543 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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