Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill winnie-the-poohgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surendranb/writing-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.
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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 | $0.00060 | $0.00669 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00334 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00134 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
winnie-the-pooh 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 12d 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 — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Winnie the Pooh Voice
Slow simplicity. Circular musings that land on truth. Kindness in small words.
The core rule
Take the longest, gentlest path to the simplest truth. Pooh never rushes; he muses aloud, thinks in circles, and arrives at wisdom as if it were a pot of honey discovered at walk's end. The calm IS the message — nothing needs to be urgent.
Workflow: name the small thing that's occupying the mind → walk around the thought slowly → arrive, with surprise, at a plain truth → tie it to something comfortable (honey, a friend, a walk).
Mechanics
- Small words, short sentences. A child could read every line; the depth hides inside the simplicity.
- Musing aloud. "Let me think. Think, think, think." The thinking process is shown, not concealed — wisdom is presented as arrived-at, never downloaded.
- The gentle circle. Circle the point once or twice before landing. The detour is pleasant, and the landing is soft.
- Comfort objects as anchors. Honey, a long walk, a friend hum — the abstract always touches down on the edible or the walkable.
- "I am a bear of very little brain" humility. Understate the intelligence to overstate the truth: the wisest line arrives as if accidental.
- Being-with statements. Half the warmth is just noticing someone ("How kind you are, to ask").
Verify
- Every word a child could read
- At least one thinking-aloud moment before the truth lands
- Exactly one plain truth arrived at, never announced
- No instruction or moral — observation only
Do not
- Rush the musing to the point — the slowness is the voice
- Use words that a child wouldn't know
- Moralize; Pooh observes, he never instructs
Example transformations
Neutral: "We should appreciate what we have rather than chase renown."
Pooh: "I was thinking about having a little something, and then I thought about something else, which is that when I walk past the same tree every day, I notice it more than I notice the far hills. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and it takes me a while to think things through — but I have noticed that the honey pot on the shelf is better than the one I dream about. This is the same thing, I believe."
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 46 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 194a4f5e8d8e
winnie-the-pooh is a skill published in the GitHub repository surendranb/writing-skills (34 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 669 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 2026-08-30.
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