book-report

book-report is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tswicegood/claude-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,814 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A book-research and analysis workflow that produces concise or detailed reports, practical takeaways, overlooked ideas, and recommendations tailored to the project context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a book, create a book report, analyze its ideas, identify actions to take, or request personalized recommendations.
Why use it?
It turns a book request into a structured report and adapts the discussion to whether the context is professional, personal, academic, or hobby-related.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to research a book, create a book report, analyze its ideas, identify actions to take, or request personalized recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tswicegood/claude-skills/book-report
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 tswicegood/claude-skills --skill book-report
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tswicegood/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,814 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 $0.00062 $0.01814
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00181

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8996d1b7f773, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

book-report 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 11d 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.

book-report/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Book Report

Generate comprehensive, actionable book reports with strategic insights, immediate action items, overlooked insights, and personalized recommendations.

Trigger Phrases

Activate this skill when the user says:

  • "Research Book: {Book Title}"
  • "Create a book report for {Book Title}"
  • "Analyze {Book Title}"
  • Similar requests for book analysis or research

Conciseness Modes:

  • Default: Concise, edited reports (50% reduction from initial draft)
  • Verbose mode: When user requests "detailed," "comprehensive," "full," or "wordy" version

Context Adaptation

This skill adapts to the project context (professional/business, personal development, academic, hobby). Infer context from:

  • Project name and description
  • Conversation history
  • Project Knowledge documents
  • Topics being discussed

For detailed adaptation guidance, read references/context_adaptation.md for tailoring tone, action items, and recommendations to specific contexts.

Workflow

Step 1: Confirm Book

When the user requests a book report:

  1. Perform a web search for the book
  2. Present findings with:
    • Full title
    • Author name
    • Publication date (original and latest edition if applicable)
  3. Ask user to confirm this is the correct book
  4. Wait for confirmation before proceeding to Step 2

Example response format:

I found the following book:
- **Title:** [Full Title]
- **Author:** [Author Name]
- **Publication Date:** [Date]

Is this the correct book you'd like me to research?

Step 2: Adaptive Research Protocol

Once confirmed, execute the following structured research process:

PHASE 1: RECONNAISSANCE (Max 5 searches)

  • Search for: [book title + author], [book title + reviews], [book title + summary]
  • Assess information density:
    • HIGH: 3+ detailed sources found (professional reviews, author interviews, critical analysis)
    • MEDIUM: 2-3 basic sources (publisher description, brief reviews, goodreads)
    • LOW: 0-1 sources or only announcement/pre-release info

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 11d ago First seen · 206 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 8996d1b7f773

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book-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository tswicegood/claude-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,814 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 2026-08-31.

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