writing-skills

writing-skills is a skill for Claude Code from thiientv/godmode. It costs 66 tokens per session (608 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or improving an Agent Skill: a set of instructions that teaches a coding agent when and how to perform a particular kind of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define triggers, write procedural instructions, organize reference material, add deterministic helper scripts, and test whether the skill activates and behaves correctly.
Why use it?
It helps make the skill clear, focused, easy to trigger correctly, and supported by repeatable checks instead of vague instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the godmode plugin — 34 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It helps define triggers, write procedural instructions, organize reference material, add deterministic helper scripts, and test whether the skill activates and behaves correctly.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install godmode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 hook.

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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Your own site
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 608 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 $0.00066 $0.00608
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00061

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3f6df182eda1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-skills 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 9d 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/writing-skills/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Skills

Write a skill for another agent to use under pressure. Context is a shared budget, so every paragraph must earn its place.

Design the boundary

  1. Collect concrete prompts that should and should not activate the skill.
  2. Name the responsibility in plain language and use a short verb-led name.
  3. Put all activation conditions in frontmatter description; the body loads only after activation.
  4. Keep SKILL.md procedural and under 500 lines.
  5. Move detailed rules, variants, schemas, and examples into one-level-deep references/ files.
  6. Add a script only for deterministic repeated work, with --help and tests.

Use skill-checklist.md before opening a PR.

Write and test

  • Use Agent Skills-compatible name and description frontmatter.
  • State when to use, when not to use, safety boundaries, workflow, handoffs, and completion evidence.
  • Avoid copying a reference repository's text, names, examples, or scripts; rewrite principles and record provenance.
  • Add at least three positive and two negative routing cases, including close neighbors that must not activate.
  • Create two or three realistic behavior cases with observable outputs and edge conditions before expanding the suite.
  • Run each case in a fresh context with the candidate skill and with no skill or a frozen previous version. Keep prompts, fixtures, model settings, and output locations identical.
  • Capture artifacts, public trace/tool summaries, duration, and usage. Grade deterministic assertions first and use blinded rubric or human review for judgment-heavy output.
  • Optimize description triggering on a training set and choose the final result by a held-out validation set; do not paste missed query keywords into the description until fixtures pass by accident.
  • Run the repository validator and at least one realistic forward test for a behavior-changing skill.

Descriptions should be specific enough to distinguish neighboring skills, but not so broad that every task activates the skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 65 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 3f6df182eda1

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writing-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository thiientv/godmode (94 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 608 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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