pronunciation-and-usage

pronunciation-and-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind. It costs 69 tokens per session (453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A language-learning guide for understanding and saying a selected word or phrase naturally. It covers pronunciation, meaning, formality, common word pairings, examples, and regional differences when relevant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn how to pronounce a foreign-language expression, understand its meaning, see natural examples, and spot common mistakes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incorrect pronunciation, awkward wording, and misunderstandings about when or where an expression is appropriate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to learn how to pronounce a foreign-language expression, understand its meaning, see natural examples, and spot common mistakes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind/pronunciation-and-usage
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.

Any agent
npx skills add surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind --skill pronunciation-and-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 453 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 $0.00069 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00045

Measured 11d ago against content hash e12fab44a765, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pronunciation-and-usage 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 11d 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/pronunciation-and-usage/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Pronunciation & Usage

Explain how to pronounce and naturally use a selected word or phrase, with register, meaning, collocations, and example sentences. Stay grounded in how the word is actually used — never invent a meaning you cannot confirm, and never promise exact accent reproduction.

  1. Identify the language, the dialect or region when it matters, and the context the word appears in.
  2. Give a simple pronunciation guide with the stress pattern; note major regional variants.
  3. Explain meaning, register, common collocations, and usage constraints.
  4. Provide natural example sentences and warn about false friends or awkward uses.

Report a Pronunciation guide, then Meaning, Usage notes, Examples, and Common mistakes when they apply. If the word is too short or out of context to read confidently, say what is missing.

Example

Selected (German): "doch"

Pronunciation: /dɔx/ — one syllable, "dokh"; the final ch is a throaty sound like the ch in Scottish "loch," not a k.

Meaning: A flexible particle. As a standalone reply it contradicts a negative ("You don't like it?" — "Doch!" = "Yes, I do!"). Mid-sentence it softens or insists ("Komm doch mit" = "Do come along").

Usage notes: Informal and very common in speech. There is no clean one-word English equivalent — its job is tone and contradiction, so translate by function, not by dictionary.

Common mistakes: Don't reach for ja to answer a negative question — ja agrees with the negative, doch overturns it.

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. 11d ago First seen · 34 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A e12fab44a765

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pronunciation-and-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 453 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 2026-08-31.