synthesis-executive-communication

synthesis-executive-communication is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide for turning technical updates into clear messages for company leaders who may not know software-development terms. It explains technical work through its business effects and decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for reports, progress updates, board materials, and other messages for CEOs, finance leaders, business-unit heads, and similar non-technical readers.
Why use it?
It prevents executives from missing the meaning of an update because it is filled with unfamiliar terms or engineering details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the synthesis-skills plugin — 63 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for reports, progress updates, board materials, and other messages for CEOs, finance leaders, business-unit heads, and similar non-technical readers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills/synthesis-executive-communication
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 synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills --skill synthesis-executive-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install synthesis-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 4 hooks.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,407 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 $0.00086 $0.02407
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01203
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00241

Measured 11d ago against content hash 16dc5fe9c589, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesis-executive-communication 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/synthesis-executive-communication/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Executive Communication for Technical Leaders

The problem

Technical leaders write in the register of their craft, and their most consequential readers do not read that register. The CEO, the business-unit president, the CFO, the peers who run revenue and legal and HR — these are the people who decide budgets, headcount, and the leader's own standing, and they absorb exactly the fraction of a report they understand.

The failure is silent. Nobody replies asking what a pull request is. Nobody admits they skimmed past the codename they didn't recognize. They just take in less, value the work less, and quietly build their picture of the technology organization from the parts that read like business. For a technology leader, the upward progress report is a career-load-bearing document, and register failure taxes it invisibly.

The deeper trap: an engineering-literate reviewer — human or AI — cannot catch this by feel. A review pass tuned to "avoid engineering weeds" still waves through staging, CI, and merged pull requests, because to a technical reader those aren't weeds. This skill exists because the bar is different in kind, not degree.

This skill was distilled from real report-revision cycles between technology leaders and the non-technical business principals they report to. In those cycles, drafts that had survived multi-reviewer adversarial passes tuned for factual grounding, political risk, and "executive value" still needed the same categories of content removed by hand, sentence after sentence. Those categories are the kill-list below.

The bar: the every-noun test

Would the business executive you are writing to understand every noun in this sentence?

Not "is this too deep." Not "is the altitude right." Every noun, checked one at a time — and a few verbs (merge, deploy, refactor, render). Jargon hides in nouns, and a sentence with one opaque noun is a sentence the reader skips.

A sentence that fails the test gets translated to its business consequence, not simplified into slightly-less-technical vocabulary. "Deployed to staging" does not become "pushed to the pre-production environment." It becomes "on the internal test site; customers see it after the next release."

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 121 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 16dc5fe9c589

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synthesis-executive-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository synthesisengineering/synthesis-skills (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,407 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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