jargon-flagger

jargon-flagger is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,233 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A jargon checker scans a draft for specialist terms, unexplained abbreviations, and insider language, then suggests plainer alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews consumer-facing articles and rewrites suggestions for terms from areas such as finance, medicine, law, technology, and policy.
Why use it?
It helps general readers understand technical subjects without already knowing the field’s vocabulary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It reviews consumer-facing articles and rewrites suggestions for terms from areas such as finance, medicine, law, technology, and policy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/jargon-flagger
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill jargon-flagger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,233 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 $0.00044 $0.02233
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01117
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00223

Measured 7d ago against content hash 870ea08d35f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jargon-flagger 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 7d 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/magazine-journalism/editing/jargon-flagger/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Jargon Flagger

What This Skill Does

Scans a draft and flags every instance of technical jargon, unexplained acronyms, and insider language that a general-audience reader would not understand — with a plain-language alternative for each.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are editing a piece written by a subject-matter expert and need to check it for accessibility before publication
  • A draft covers a technical topic (finance, medicine, law, technology, policy) and is aimed at a general readership
  • You want to verify that a piece meets plain-language standards before sending it to an editor
  • You are adapting a specialist report or press release into a consumer-facing article

What You Need To Provide

Required: The draft text to be reviewed.

Optional: The target audience's assumed knowledge level (e.g., "general newspaper reader," "informed but non-specialist," "industry audience who knows the basics"); the subject domain (helps calibrate what counts as jargon vs. common knowledge in that field); any terms you have already decided to keep and do not want flagged.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Establishes the knowledge baseline. Determines what a reader of the stated audience would reasonably be expected to understand. For a general newspaper reader, terms like "GDP" or "DNA" are assumed known; "quantitative easing" or "epigenetics" are not. For an informed-but-non-specialist audience, the threshold is higher. If no audience is specified, defaults to a general magazine reader.

  2. Scans for three categories. Flags items in three tiers:

    • Jargon — technical terms from a specific field used without definition (e.g., "amortisation," "comorbidity," "arbitrage")
    • Unexplained acronyms — acronyms used before being spelled out, or never spelled out at all (e.g., "EBITDA," "RCT," "FOIA")
    • Insider language — phrases that are not technically jargon but assume familiarity with a specific world (e.g., "above the fold," "the C-suite," "discovery phase")

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 7d ago First seen · 158 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 870ea08d35f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

jargon-flagger is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (30 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,233 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 2026-09-04.

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