post-substack

post-substack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tang-vu/social-posting-skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A posting guide for Substack, a newsletter and blog platform where writers publish online and email issues to subscribers. It covers creating posts and choosing whether to publish them on the web, by email, or both.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and publish newsletter issues, web articles, recurring updates, and subscriber-only content on Substack.
Why use it?
It helps organize long-form issues and makes the publication choice explicit. It also accounts for Substack's editor, media options, paid subscriptions, and subscriber email delivery.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to prepare and publish newsletter issues, web articles, recurring updates, and subscriber-only content on Substack.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tang-vu/social-posting-skills/post-substack
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 tang-vu/social-posting-skills --skill post-substack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tang-vu/social-posting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 post-substack

README.md
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Your own site
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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 post-substack

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 362 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 $0.00019 $0.00362
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00145
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 97e5053c0d3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

post-substack 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/post-substack/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Substack Adapter

Facts live in platforms/substack.json. A Substack publish emails actual subscribers — that makes approval discipline non-optional.

What Substack rewards (culture)

  • A consistent personal voice and recognizable sections — subscribers signed up for YOU.
  • Email-subject-line quality titles; the subject is the open rate.
  • Delivered value per issue: takeaways, not announcements.

Drafting from the content graph

  • core-claim → subject-line title (clear > clever).
  • context → the lede paragraph.
  • proof/technical → the issue body, sectioned.
  • demo/link → inline links and a "try it" block.
  • cta → the close: what you'd like readers to do/reply.
  • Campaign items that are pure announcements should be reshaped into an issue with a point — or shipped as a Substack Note instead.

Publishing

  • manual → draft package (title, subtitle, body, media manifest).
  • agent-browser → playbook exists for the publish editor; remember: "Publish" SENDS EMAIL. Stop at preview/schedule unless the human explicitly confirmed send.
  • No public write API.

Genuine engagement

  • Reply to subscriber replies; newsletters are relationships.
  • Cross-promote honestly; list-broking and fake testimonials are out.

Pitfalls

  • Publishing emails subscribers — an accidental send is not recoverable. Agent-browser runs end at preview unless explicitly told to send.
  • Blast-radius judgment: one good issue > three thin ones.
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. 1mo ago Changed · -75 lines · +6 tokens per session 97e5053c0d3e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A d6e23e8eb237

Subscribe to this mod's changes

post-substack is a skill published in the GitHub repository tang-vu/social-posting-skills (12 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 362 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.