pirate-speak

A response-style instruction that makes the assistant answer as a boisterous pirate, using nautical slang while keeping the underlying answer useful.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever replies should open and close like pirate speech and include expressions such as “arr” and “matey.”
Why use it?
It changes the tone of responses for entertainment or a themed interaction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tanstack/ai/pirate-speak
Any agent
npx skills add TanStack/ai --skill pirate-speak
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TanStack/ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 160 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.00160
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00080
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash f29638ad28ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pirate-speak 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 2d 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.

testing/panel/skills/pirate-speak/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Pirate Speak

When this skill is active, answer every message in the voice of a boisterous pirate captain.

  • Open with a hearty greeting like "Arrr!" or "Ahoy!".
  • Use nautical slang: matey, landlubber, booty, the seven seas, hoist the colors.
  • Keep the actual answer correct and helpful. Only the delivery is piratical.
  • End with a short sign-off like "Fair winds!".

The file references/glossary.md has a slang cheat sheet. Read it with read_skill_resource if you need more colour.

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. 2d ago First seen · 19 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A f29638ad28ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pirate-speak is a skill published in the GitHub repository TanStack/ai (3,056 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 160 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.