prompt-decorators-usage

prompt-decorators-usage is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/prompt-decorators. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,855 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using prompt decorators, short markers added to a prompt to request a particular reasoning style, structure, tone, or checking behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing decorators for a prompt, searching the decorator catalogue, or enabling automatic decoration.
Why use it?
It helps decide when a decorator is useful and how to find the currently available decorators instead of repeating long instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the prompt-decorators plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing decorators for a prompt, searching the decorator catalogue, or enabling automatic decoration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/prompt-decorators/prompt-decorators-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 synaptiai/prompt-decorators --skill prompt-decorators-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/prompt-decorators

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prompt-decorators, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 1 hook.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,855 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.01855
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00186

Measured 11d ago against content hash 20fbf5bf88f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-decorators-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.

claude-code-plugin/skills/prompt-decorators-usage/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prompt Decorators Usage

This skill teaches when to suggest prompt decorators to the user and how to apply them - either as inline sigils, always-on config, or by switching on auto-decorate mode.

Prerequisites

  • The prompt-decorators plugin is installed (the user installed it from the Synapti marketplace).
  • The UserPromptSubmit hook is wired and active.
  • The decorator catalogue is available - browse with /decorate list or /decorate search <term>. Counts below reflect the catalogue at the time this skill was written; run /decorate list for the current set.

Workflow

Use TodoWrite to track these steps when invoked from another workflow:

Step 1: Identify the decoration intent

Match the user's prompt to one of the catalogue's core categories.

All decorator names below are verified against the vendored registry at claude-code-plugin/vendor/prompt_decorators/registry/core/ at the time this skill was written. The catalogue grows and names can change; if any suggestion below doesn't appear in /decorate list, trust the CLI over this table and use /decorate search <term> or /decorate list <category> to find the current equivalent.

Category Trigger phrases in the prompt Real decorators (verified)
reasoning "why", "explain", "analyze", "compare", "pros/cons", "trade-offs" TreeOfThought, FirstPrinciples, RedTeam, Socratic, RootCause, Debate, Contrarian, Abductive, Deductive, Inductive, BlindSpots
structure "list", "outline", "summarize", "table", "bullet", "organize" Outline, Summary, TableFormat, Comparison, Bullet, Layered, Nested, DecisionMatrix, Prioritize, Timeline
tone "concise", "brief", "detailed", "academic", "formal", "simple" Concise, Detailed, Academic, ELI5, Professional, AsExpert, Audience, Persona, Creative, Narrative
verification "verify", "fact-check", "cite", "sources", "evidence", "risks" CiteSources, FactCheck, Confidence, Uncertainty, Limitations, Balanced, Steelman, FindGaps, PeerReview
minimal (base layer) "standard output format", "baseline reasoning shape" OutputFormat, Reasoning, StepByStep, Tone, Version
meta composing decorators or controlling their interaction Override, Chain, Conditional, Refine, Priority, BuildOn, Extension

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

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 · 186 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 20fbf5bf88f5

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prompt-decorators-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/prompt-decorators (43 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,855 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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