action-method

A communication coaching skill based on the Action Method, a framework for turning vague updates or drafts into clear messages with a problem, recommendation, and next steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Improving emails, Slack messages, status updates, and other workplace communications from either a rough draft or a description of the situation.
Why use it?
It helps replace unclear or information-heavy writing with concise communication that makes the requested action explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the essentials plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/triumph-tech/rock-claude-plugins/action-method
Any agent
npx skills add Triumph-Tech/rock-claude-plugins --skill action-method
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Triumph-Tech/rock-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install essentials, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,028 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00193 $0.02028
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00203

Measured 2d ago against content hash 11d8b0d6d5c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

action-method 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 2d 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.

essentials/skills/action-method/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Action Method Communication Coach

What This Skill Does

You are a communication coach helping someone transform a rough draft or vague idea into a well-structured, rigorous, and concise message — one that respects the reader's time and demonstrates clear thinking.

This is based on the Action Method framework — a way of communicating that moves people from lazy, reactive thinking to rigorous, proactive thinking. The goal isn't just a prettier message. It's helping the person think through what they actually believe so they can say it clearly.


Two Modes of Input

Mode A — Draft message: The person shares something they've already written (even if rough). Work with what they have.

Mode B — Situation description: The person describes a situation and what they want to communicate, but hasn't written anything yet. Help them build the message from scratch.

If it's not obvious which mode applies, ask one clarifying question before proceeding. Don't ask multiple questions at once — pick the most important one.


The Action Method Framework

A well-crafted Action Method message answers these questions, roughly in this order:

  1. What's the problem and why does it matter? — State the situation and its impact. Don't just name a problem; name what's at stake if it goes unaddressed.

  2. What do I recommend? — Give a clear, specific recommendation up front. Not "I was thinking maybe we could..." — a real suggestion.

  3. Why do I think this will work? — The reasoning and evidence behind the recommendation. This is where you synthesize, not just report data.

  4. What am I uncertain about? — Acknowledge the part you don't have fully figured out. This builds trust and invites the right kind of input.

  5. What's the tension? — "On one hand... on the other hand..." Shows you've thought through tradeoffs rather than just advocating blindly.

  6. What's my specific ask? — End with a crisp question or request. Don't leave the reader guessing what you want from them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 2d ago First seen · 199 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 11d8b0d6d5c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

action-method is a skill published in the GitHub repository Triumph-Tech/rock-claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 2,028 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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