midweek-devotional

midweek-devotional is a skill for Claude Code from tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing assistant for short Bible-based encouragements sent to a church between Sunday services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating devotionals to send by email, church app, or text, with optional links to a sermon series or current events.
Why use it?
It gives pastors a defined structure for turning a Bible verse, passage, or theme into a midweek message.

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 is for creating devotionals to send by email, church app, or text, with optional links to a sermon series or current events.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills/midweek-devotional
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 midweek-devotional
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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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,491 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 $0.00032 $0.01491
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00149

Measured 12d ago against content hash b249c2b5d229, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

midweek-devotional 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (generate-pdf.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/midweek-devotional/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Midweek Devotional

A pastoral moment for the middle of the week.

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 You Need to Provide

Required:

  • A verse, passage, or theme

Optional:

  • Connection to your current sermon series
  • Something happening in the community or world that's on people's minds

Step 1: Write the Devotional

Use this exact structure. Every section has a purpose. Don't skip any of them.

Opening (1-2 sentences)

Meet the reader where they are on Wednesday. Not where you wish they were.

The opening should be honest and human. Skip the greeting entirely. Drop the reader into a real moment.

What not to write: "Happy Wednesday, church family!"

What to aim for: "By Wednesday most of us have already forgotten what we committed to on Sunday. That's not failure. That's being human."

The goal is immediate recognition. The reader should think: "That's exactly where I am right now."

Scripture (quoted in full)

Pull 1-3 verses. Not a full chapter. The whole passage should fit in a single short paragraph.

Use the pastor's preferred translation. If no preference is given, use the ESV or NIV, whichever reads more naturally for the text.

Quote it cleanly. No verse-by-verse breakdown. Let the text breathe.

Reflection (3-5 sentences)

This is the heart of the devotional.

Write in first person. Write as a pastor who has been sitting with this text for days, not someone summarizing a commentary. What does this passage mean for THIS week, in THIS moment, for people carrying real weight?

Be specific. Vague spiritual encouragement does nothing. Anchor the reflection to something concrete: a feeling, a situation, a tension people are actually navigating.

Keep sentences short. Two to three per paragraph. Midweek readers are scanning while eating lunch or driving carpool. Make every sentence earn its place.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 154 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A b249c2b5d229

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midweek-devotional is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,491 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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