update-prompt

update-prompt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins. It costs 22 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for revising prompts, system instructions, and agent definitions with a selected research-backed prompt-writing technique.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise prompts with techniques such as examples, self-critique, step-by-step reasoning, or restating an unclear task.
Why use it?
It helps improve an existing instruction by applying a deliberate method instead of making unguided wording changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the datascience plugin — 20 skills, 15 commands shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/update-prompt
Any agent
npx skills add stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins --skill update-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install datascience, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 380 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.00380
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00190
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash 31c00e63a6c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-prompt 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 5d 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.

plugins/datascience/skills/update-prompt/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Update Prompt

Take an existing prompt (or task description) and update it by applying a research-backed prompt engineering technique.

Step 1: ASK the user

Present the available techniques:

"Which prompt engineering technique should I apply?

  1. Psychological Prompting - stakes + persona + challenge + self-check (best for complex tasks needing maximum effort)
  2. Chain of Thought - step-by-step reasoning (best for math, logic, debugging)
  3. Chain of Draft - minimal per-step drafts, 7.6% of the token cost (best for token-limited reasoning)
  4. Tree of Thought - explore 2-3 approaches, evaluate, select (best for design decisions)
  5. Few-Shot - provide examples of desired output (best for structured format)
  6. Self-Refine - generate -> critique -> improve loop (best for iterative quality)
  7. Rephrase and Respond - restate problem before solving (best for ambiguous requirements)
  8. Stack multiple - combine techniques for maximum effect

Which technique(s)? (number or name, can pick multiple)"

Step 2: Read the reference

Read the relevant reference document(s) from references/ in the prompt-engineering skill directory.

Step 3: Apply

Take the user's prompt/task and restructure it using the selected technique's template. Show the before and after.

If stacking: apply techniques in order (persona first, then methodology, then self-check last).

Step 4: Iterate

Ask: "Does this capture your intent? Adjust anything?"

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. 5d ago First seen · 41 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 31c00e63a6c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 380 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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