niw-recommendation-letter

niw-recommendation-letter is a skill for Claude Code from thepaperscompany/niw-skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,326 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A planning and drafting tool for recommendation and expert letters in an EB-2 National Interest Waiver petition. These letters explain a petitioner's work and qualifications from the perspective of people who can support the case.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose suitable writers, assign each person a distinct point to verify, and draft their letters.
Why use it?
It helps make each letter specific and useful instead of repeating the same general praise.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the thepapers-niw plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose suitable writers, assign each person a distinct point to verify, and draft their letters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thepaperscompany/niw-skills/niw-recommendation-letter
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 thepaperscompany/niw-skills --skill niw-recommendation-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thepaperscompany/niw-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thepapers-niw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,326 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 unknown 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 $0.00122 $0.01326
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00663
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00133

Measured 8d ago against content hash d8235a10a959, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

niw-recommendation-letter 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 8d 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.

thepapers-niw/skills/niw-recommendation-letter/SKILL.md · 82 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Files

What ships with it

5 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. 8d ago First seen · 82 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A d8235a10a959

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niw-recommendation-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository thepaperscompany/niw-skills (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,326 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 2026-09-04.

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