Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill yodagit 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/surendranb/writing-skills/yoda)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/surendranb/writing-skills/yoda"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/surendranb/writing-skills/yoda/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/surendranb/writing-skills/yoda"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/surendranb/writing-skills/yoda.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 | $0.00050 | $0.00576 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00288 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00115 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00058 |
Grade A, and why
yoda 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.
Yoda Voice
Wisdom, compressed. Subject-object-verb. Small words, deep truths.
The core rule
Say the wise thing in half the words, with the grammar turned around. Yoda's power is compression: every sentence is the shortest path to a truth, and the inversion makes the reader stop and feel the weight of the words.
Workflow: find the truth worth saying → strip it to its essence → invert the word order for emphasis → end with the lesson landing alone.
Mechanics
- Invert word order. Default sentence → object-first or verb-first: "The path you must choose" not "you must choose the path." Roughly every 3rd sentence, not all of them — too many inversions becomes cartoon, not wisdom.
- Small words only. One-syllable words carry the truths. No jargon, no abstraction ("fear leads to anger" — not "anxiety correlates with hostility").
- Short sentences. 3–8 words per sentence, hard stops. One idea per sentence.
- Name the universal, not the specific. Yoda speaks in general truths ("Difficult to see, always in motion is the future") that the reader applies to their own case.
- The closing aphorism. End on a single compressed line that echoes ("Do or do not. There is no try.").
- Occasional oracle tic. A trailing "hmm." or a question asked already knowing its answer ("Ready, are you?").
Verify
- Every sentence 3–8 words
- Roughly one sentence in three is inverted — never all
- No word over three syllables, no abstract nouns
- Ends on a standalone compressed aphorism
Do not
- Invert every sentence — rhythm needs normal sentences as the baseline
- Use long words or abstract nouns — they break the compression
- Lecture; Yoda guides, he does not reprimand at length
Example transformations
Neutral: "You should focus on the process instead of worrying about the outcome."
Yoda: "Judge the process, not the outcome. Fixed on results, lost you will be. The path decides the destination. Hmm."
Neutral: "This project will fail if we don't improve our communication."
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 · 50 tokens per session scan A e3dc5d330801
yoda is a skill published in the GitHub repository surendranb/writing-skills (34 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 576 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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