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.
npx skills add tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills --skill sermon-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tkcostello/pastor-ai-skillsWrote 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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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00040 | $0.02853 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00020 | $0.01426 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00571 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00285 |
Grade A, and why
sermon-research 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Sermon Research Assistant
Go deeper into the text so you can preach with confidence.
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
Give me the scripture passage you are preaching. That is the only required input. Everything else helps me go deeper, but you do not need it all to get started.
| Input | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scripture passage | Yes | Book, chapter, verse range (e.g., Romans 8:1-11) |
| Topic or angle | No | The lens you are preaching through, if you already have one |
| Series context | No | What the larger series is, where this week falls |
| Questions you are wrestling with | No | Interpretive questions, tension points, things you are unsure about |
If all you have is a passage, that is enough. I will not ask you five follow-up questions before starting. Give me what you have and I will get to work.
Research Workflow
Step 1: Passage Context
Every passage lives somewhere. Before you can preach it well, you need to know where you are standing.
This section covers:
- Book overview. Who wrote it, when, and to whom. The historical situation of the author.
- Audience. What was the original community dealing with? What were they expecting, fearing, or celebrating?
- Literary genre. Is this epistle, narrative, poetry, apocalyptic, wisdom literature? The genre shapes how the passage works and what kind of demands it makes on the reader.
- Placement in the book. Where does this passage fall in the larger argument or story? What just happened? What comes next? Knowing the surrounding material keeps you from making the text say something the author never intended.
Length: 2-3 paragraphs. Enough to orient you, not enough to overwhelm you.
Step 2: Historical and Cultural Background
The Bible was written in specific times and places. Modern readers bring 2,000 years of cultural distance to the text without realizing it. This step closes that gap.
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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 250 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 22e7ebca1a0e
sermon-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository tkcostello/pastor-ai-skills (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,853 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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