blog-writer

blog-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from travsteward/openwriter. It costs 240 tokens per session (3,482 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for producing long-form blog posts from ideas through structure, writing, images, and publication. It uses separate planning and draft documents and can publish to registered blog sites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, write, illustrate, and publish blog articles across configured sites.
Why use it?
It gives each post a defined shape and reviewable draft, reducing missed details such as the title, preview text, URL slug, or site-specific settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to plan, write, illustrate, and publish blog articles across configured sites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/travsteward/openwriter/blog-writer
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 travsteward/openwriter --skill blog-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travsteward/openwriter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 240 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,482 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.
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 $0.00240 $0.03482
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.01741
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00696
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00348

Measured 10d ago against content hash f2a53eca2c52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blog-writer 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 10d 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/blog-writer/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blog Writer

Channel-master skill for long-form blog content. Owns ideation → beats → draft → image → publish.

Architecture: beats-first (v0.5.0) + plugin-backed publish (v0.4.0). Each post lives in its own container with two sibling docs: a Beats doc (the structural commitments — beat list + title/preview/slug as B0) and a Draft doc (the voice-poured prose). Beats reshape regularly; draft re-pours via /authors-voice against a per-site anchor (voice/anchor-<site-slug>.md). Publish is a single post_to_blog MCP call against a site registered via add_blog_site — site-specific frontmatter (layout, author, prerender, date → publishedDate for Astro, etc.) lives on the github plugin's per-site config in ~/.openwriter/config.json, not in project config. Mirrors book-writer's discipline at post scale.

Convention

This skill obeys the shared writer contract at WRITER-CONVENTION.md. Brief shape and return shape match that doc. Sub-form values: long | short | tutorial | announcement.

OpenWriter pad mechanics are canonical in /openwriter — read it, don't re-derive from tool descriptions. The load-bearing rule: populate_document is create-only, used ONCE; it re-sends the whole body, so calling it again to "fix" a doc appends a duplicate. All edits (rewrite / insert / delete) go through write_to_pad on fresh node IDs. Plus the read ladder (outline_docsearch_docspeek_docread_pad).

Blog posts ship SEO-complete in the FIRST pass. A blog post almost always carries SEO — internal/cluster links, meta + slug + tags, snippet-targeted headings, FAQ/schema-eligible content all go into the initial draft (the minion brief + first populate_document), never bolted on after. Bolting SEO on later forces an edit (→ write_to_pad, never a 2nd populate). SEO-strategy-led posts (pillar / landing / comparison) front-end through /seo-writer if you have it installed (not bundled with OpenWriter).

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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. 10d ago First seen · 115 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A f2a53eca2c52

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blog-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository travsteward/openwriter (27 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session and 3,482 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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