writing

writing is a skill for Claude Code from takoyaro/the-agency. It costs 121 tokens per session (880 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of standards and editing checks for writing software documents and other technical prose. It covers formats such as READMEs, changelogs, commit messages, pull-request descriptions, and release notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting or editing project documentation, change summaries, commit messages, pull requests, release notes, or general prose.
Why use it?
It helps avoid inconsistent document structures and vague, machine-sounding writing when communicating about code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when drafting or editing project documentation, change summaries, commit messages, pull requests, release notes, or general prose.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing
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 takoyaro/the-agency --skill writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/takoyaro/the-agency

Made for: Claude Code.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin the-agency/plugin install the-agency after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for writing

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for writing

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/takoyaro/the-agency/writing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 880 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 $0.00121 $0.00880
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00440
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00088

Measured 11d ago against content hash 117b59979844, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing 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.

plugins/red/skills/writing/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing

This skill supplies two things a writer doesn't hold in their head: the format standards for common documents, and a reference for catching AI-slop on an edit pass.

It does not set the voice. The register and tone are the writer's judgment — terse where terse is right, room to breathe where it's earned. What follows are standards and checks to write against, never a house style to write in. Match the piece to its reader first; then apply these.

1. Format standards — apply these

Don't improvise a format that already has a standard. Identify the document type and read its reference before drafting.

Writing this Read first
README references/readme.md
CHANGELOG / version bump references/changelog.md
Commit message references/commit.md
Pull request description references/pull-request.md
Release notes references/release-notes.md

These are the non-negotiable part: a changelog is Keep a Changelog, a version bump is semver. The skeletons in each reference are the target shape.

2. Anti-slop edit pass — a reference, not a rulebook

After a draft exists, check it against the tells. The full catalog — verbatim tell-strings, failure modes, before/after, sources — is in references/anti-slop.md; load it for anything heavier than a quick read.

Two things govern the whole pass:

  • Density, not tokens. The tell is co-occurrence — three markers clustered in a paragraph — not any single word. A lone em-dash is fine; one "crucial" is fine. Never run a blocklist: a word-banned draft is its own kind of slop.
  • Weigh every cut against register. On a terse document (commit, changelog, PR) cut hard — there's no tone to protect. On a piece that earns warmth (a post-mortem, an announcement, a README that greets a stranger), a sentence may carry tone rather than a fact. That is not slop; that is the writing. Keep it.

High-signal checks to run from memory (full tables in the reference):

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files 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 · 50 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 117b59979844

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository takoyaro/the-agency (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 880 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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