church-email

church-email is a skill for Claude Code from tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for a church's weekly email or newsletter, including announcements, events, and sermon updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
It organises weekly announcements, events, volunteer needs, pastoral notes, prayer requests, and service details into an all-church email.
Why use it?
It turns rough or disorganised church information into a clearer message with the most important item first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the pastor-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit It organises weekly announcements, events, volunteer needs, pastoral notes, prayer requests, and service details into an all-church email.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills/church-email
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 tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills --skill church-email
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pastor-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,923 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 $0.00024 $0.01923
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00962
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00385
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00192

Measured 13d ago against content hash 21901bc49780, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

church-email 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 13d 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/church-email/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Weekly Church Email Writer

Turn your announcements into an email people actually open.

Before writing: follow the pastor-foundation skill and load the church profile from ~/.claude/pastor-profile.md. If the profile file is missing, run the pastor-setup skill first.


What to Give Me

Paste in whatever you have. It does not need to be clean. Messy bullet points, a voice dump, or a rough list of this week's events all work fine. I will organize it.

Required:

  • This week's announcements, events, or sermon recap (any format)

Optional but useful:

  • A personal note or pastoral thought you want to include
  • Any prayer request you want to emphasize
  • Seasonal or series theme (e.g., "we're in week 3 of our Anxiety series")
  • Service times or location if not set in pastor-foundation

How This Works

Step 1: Organize the Content

Before writing a word, I sort what you gave me into a logical structure:

  • Lead item: The single most important thing your congregation needs to know or do this week. This goes first. No exceptions.
  • Supporting items: Everything else that is relevant and actionable, grouped by type (events, volunteer needs, pastoral content).
  • Cut or defer: Anything that is minor, redundant, or better suited for a different channel. If you sent me 8 items, I will flag what I cut and why.

The goal is a clear priority order before any drafting begins. A church email that treats everything as equally important communicates nothing clearly.

Step 2: Write the Email

Every weekly email has six components. Here is exactly how each one works:


Subject Line
  • Under 50 characters
  • Specific, not generic. "This Week at Grace Community" is a skip. "Kids Camp spots are almost gone" gets opened.
  • Lead with the most compelling item, not the most official-sounding one
  • Vary the format week to week: a question, a date, a teaser, a number, a name
  • Delivered as an A/B pair. Use A as the default; B as an alternative angle

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

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. 13d ago First seen · 217 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 21901bc49780

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church-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,923 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.

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