cook-the-blog

cook-the-blog is a skill for Claude Code from Varnan-Tech/opendirectory. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing workflow for producing detailed company growth case studies and blog posts in MDX, a format that combines Markdown with website components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write articles about a company's growth, technology choices, or product-led strategy, provided the required tools and destinations are configured.
Why use it?
It organizes research, search-term analysis, images, and draft checks into one publishing process.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the opendirectory plugin — 58 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write articles about a company's growth, technology choices, or product-led strategy, provided the required tools and destinations are configured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/varnan-tech/opendirectory/cook-the-blog
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 Varnan-Tech/opendirectory --skill cook-the-blog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Varnan-Tech/opendirectory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install opendirectory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 58 skills.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,997 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 109
    Data is uploaded to cloud storage (S3 / GCS / Azure Blob). This may be a legitimate backup or exfiltration to an external bucket. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination bucket is trusted and owned by you. Never upload credentials, secrets, or workspace contents to external or unverified cloud storage.
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 $0.00088 $0.01997
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00999
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00200

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5121c1854c60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cook-the-blog 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.

skills/cook-the-blog/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

cook-the-blog Workflow

Follow these steps exactly when asked to generate a case study for a company.

MANDATORY SETUP CHECK: Before starting, ensure you have the required environment variables and target destinations configured (Target Repo, Image Bucket/Storage, Author Email, etc.). If any are missing, STOP and ask the user for them.

MANDATORY QA CHECK AT EACH STEP: After completing every single step below, you MUST perform a strict, self-critical QA check. If a step fails or is hallucinated, you MUST retry until it succeeds. Do not fake success.

1. Deep Research (Tavily)

  • Use the tavily tool (via MCP) and standard web searches to deeply research the company. Note: Always check if the registered business name differs from the product name. Search Reddit and other relevant forums for authentic developer insights.
  • QA Tester: Did you actually extract real, hard metrics and specific details about their GTM strategy, or is it generic fluff? If fluff, research deeper.
  • Run the python script: export SERPAPI_KEY="[YOUR_SERPAPI_KEY]" && python3 [PATH_TO_SEO_SCRIPT] "[Company Name]"
  • Identify the breakout and high-growth keywords from the output.
  • QA Tester: Did the script succeed? Are the keywords real and high-volume? If not, retry or adjust the query.

3. Title & Cover Generation

  • Title: Format: "How [Company] [Achieved X] by [Core Strategy]". Make it specific and highly descriptive.
  • Cover: Use the blog-cover-cli generate command to generate the cover image. CRITICAL: The title passed to the cover image generator using the -t flag should contain around 7-10 words total. Do NOT use newlines (\n) in the string. Just provide a normal, single-line string and let the CLI handle the text wrapping automatically! Write a concise, aggressive title (e.g., blog-cover-cli generate -t "How Baseten Scaled AI Infrastructure To a 5 Billion Valuation" -l "domain.com" -o "./cover.png").
  • QA Tester: Was the image actually generated and saved? Verify the file exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 5121c1854c60

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cook-the-blog is a skill published in the GitHub repository Varnan-Tech/opendirectory (639 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,997 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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