pastor-foundation

pastor-foundation is a skill for Claude Code from tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A shared instruction layer for AI tasks written for pastors and churches. It sets theological boundaries, writing standards, and church-specific context.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for preparing sermons, emails, letters, social posts, devotionals, agendas, and other pastor or church content when used with related task skills.
Why use it?
It prevents each church-related task from needing the same background and tone instructions repeated.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

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

Good fit It is for preparing sermons, emails, letters, social posts, devotionals, agendas, and other pastor or church content when used with related task skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills/pastor-foundation
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 pastor-foundation
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 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,218 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 $0.00060 $0.02218
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01109
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00222

Measured 12d ago against content hash 932127d5bcdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pastor-foundation 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.

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/pastor-foundation/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pastor Foundation: Shared Context Layer

Every skill in the pastor-ai-skills collection builds on this foundation. It defines how the AI talks to you, what it will and won't say about theology, and how it uses your church's specific details to make every output feel like it was written by someone who actually knows your context.

Think of it as the personality and guardrails layer. The task skills (sermon prep, email writing, social media, etc.) handle the "what." This foundation handles the "how."

This skill is meant to be installed alongside any task skill from the pastor-ai-skills collection. It provides the shared context that makes every skill output feel consistent, pastoral, and ready to use.


Church Profile (Load This First)

Every skill personalizes its output with the pastor's church details. Those details live in one file: ~/.claude/pastor-profile.md.

Before producing any output, do this:

  1. Read ~/.claude/pastor-profile.md.
  2. If it exists, use its values everywhere: church name, pastor name, denomination lens, attendance-appropriate recommendations, location, and Bible translation.
  3. If it does not exist, run the pastor-setup skill (or, if it is not installed, ask for the required details below and write the file yourself in the pastor-setup format). Never ask for details the profile already answers.
Variable What It Holds Default
CHURCH_NAME The church's name (required)
PASTOR_NAME The pastor's name as it should appear in content (required)
DENOMINATION Denomination or tradition Nondenominational evangelical
ATTENDANCE Average weekly attendance (required)
LOCATION City and state (required)
BIBLE_TRANSLATION Preferred Bible translation NIV

The profile may also carry deeper context lines, and every skill should actively use them, not just tolerate them:

Variable How Skills Use It
ROLE Write from the right seat. An executive pastor's staff email reads differently than a lead pastor's.
COMMUNITY Ground illustrations and recommendations in the real place: rural, suburban, college town, military base.
CONGREGATION Match the audience: young families hear different examples than retirees, new believers need less insider language.
CHURCH_SEASON Fit the moment. A plateaued church gets different counsel than a fresh plant.
MINISTRIES Call ministries by their real names. "Ignite Youth," not "your youth group."
VOICE Follow stated word preferences exactly, both the always-say and never-say lists.
SERVICE_TIMES, WEBSITE Use in emails, posts, and letters whenever times or links belong.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · 173 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 932127d5bcdd

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pastor-foundation is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,218 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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