topic-glossary-writer

topic-glossary-writer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language glossary of key terms from a specialist subject, written for people who need to understand and use them correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps journalists, presenters, producers, and teams get up to speed on subjects such as finance, science, law, technology, or medicine.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of confusing unfamiliar terminology when preparing interviews, scripts, or articles.

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 helps journalists, presenters, producers, and teams get up to speed on subjects such as finance, science, law, technology, or medicine.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/topic-glossary-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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill topic-glossary-writer
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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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,944 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 $0.00052 $0.01944
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00972
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00389
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00194

Measured 9d ago against content hash 521b93366764, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

topic-glossary-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 9d 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/pre-production/topic-glossary-writer/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Topic Glossary Writer

What This Skill Does

Produces a plain-language glossary of essential terms for a complex or specialist topic, written so that a journalist, presenter, or producer with no prior expertise can understand and use the terms correctly before entering an interview or writing a script.

When To Use This Skill

  • You are assigned to cover a specialist beat (finance, science, law, technology, medicine) and need to get up to speed before your first interview or deadline
  • You are briefing a presenter or on-screen talent who needs to speak confidently about a technical subject without getting terminology wrong
  • You are writing a script or article on a complex topic and want a reference document to keep definitions consistent throughout
  • Your team is producing a series on an unfamiliar subject and needs shared vocabulary before production begins

What You Need To Provide

Required: The topic or subject area, and the intended audience for the glossary (e.g. journalist preparing for an interview, TV presenter, general reader, production team). Optional: The specific story angle or editorial focus, any terms you already know are relevant, the format of the final content (broadcast, print, online), and any terms you want defined even if they seem basic.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the core terms a non-specialist must understand to follow the topic accurately — prioritising terms that are commonly misused, misunderstood, or used inconsistently across sources.
  2. Writes each definition in plain language, at the level of a well-educated non-specialist. Avoids circular definitions ("a derivative is a type of financial derivative").
  3. Adds a brief note where a term is frequently confused with another, or where common usage differs from technical usage — these distinctions are where errors most often occur in journalism.
  4. Orders terms logically: foundational concepts first, then more complex terms that build on them. Not alphabetical, unless specifically requested.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 9d ago First seen · 110 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 521b93366764

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topic-glossary-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,944 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 2026-09-04.

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