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 simbajigege/book2skills --skill show-your-work-kleongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skillsWrote 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/simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon/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/simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simbajigege/book2skills/show-your-work-kleon.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 | $0.00034 | $0.02965 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.01186 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00593 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00297 |
Grade A, and why
show-your-work-kleon 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 1mo 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 — 210 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Core Philosophy
Austin Kleon's Show Your Work! makes a single counterintuitive argument: you don't need talent, credentials, or a finished body of work before you start sharing. You need to share the process of becoming. The audience finds you not because of what you've produced, but because they recognize themselves in how you work.
The fundamental reframe: stop thinking "I need to finish this before I can share it." Start thinking "sharing IS the work."
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill for queries that match the trigger phrases in the description and require applying the decision framework from Show Your Work! rather than summarizing the book.
The Framework
Principle 1: Scenius Over Genius
Kleon borrows the term "scenius" from Brian Eno — the idea that creativity is not the product of lone geniuses but of collaborative ecology: a group of people in the same scene who share ideas, steal from each other generously, build on each other's work.
Why this matters for sharing: You are not a solo creator broadcasting to an audience. You are a node in a scenius. When you share your process, your influences, your failures, and your questions, you contribute to a creative ecosystem that is larger than any individual. The scenius rewards contributors.
Practical implication: Credit your influences publicly. Show what you're learning from. Make your "scenius" visible — the books you're reading, the artists inspiring you, the problems you're wrestling with.
Principle 2: The Amateur Advantage
"Amateur" comes from the Latin for "lover." An amateur does work for the love of it, not for money or credentials. Kleon argues the amateur has a structural advantage over the professional:
- Less to lose by experimenting publicly
- Willing to ask "dumb" questions that experts have forgotten to ask
- Enthusiasm that is contagious (professionals often hide theirs)
- Learning in public at full speed, which is itself compelling to watch
What ships with it
4 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 210 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1fa910d12532
show-your-work-kleon is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (194 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,965 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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