pop-that-readme

pop-that-readme is a skill for Claude Code from wan-huiyan/cutify-this. It costs 216 tokens per session (2,285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making an open-source project's GitHub README clear, attractive, and easy to scan. A README is the main introduction and instruction page for a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or improving hero sections, badges, feature tables, demo media, installation instructions, and other README sections.
Why use it?
It turns a dense or unclear project front page into a concise overview that helps visitors understand and use the project quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the pop-that-readme plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Creating or improving hero sections, badges, feature tables, demo media, installation instructions, and other README sections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme
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 wan-huiyan/cutify-this --skill pop-that-readme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wan-huiyan/cutify-this

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pop-that-readme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

agentmods badge for pop-that-readme

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for pop-that-readme

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wan-huiyan/cutify-this/pop-that-readme.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 216 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,285 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 $0.00216 $0.02285
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.01143
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00229

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7df8969347e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pop-that-readme 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 10d 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.

plugins/pop-that-readme/skills/pop-that-readme/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pop That README ✨

Turn a flat, wall-of-text README into a cute, high-signal front page people actually read and screenshot — the polished house style behind repos like cutify-this, show-and-tell, and agent-review-panel. One template, a baked-in hero, and a section recipe. Pop, don't pad.

Problem

A project is good but its README is a grey wall: no hero, no badges, a vague one-liner, a giant prose dump, and the install command buried at the bottom. Visitors bounce in seconds. The fix isn't more words — it's a scannable, characterful front page: a hero that shows the thing, a value prop you grasp in one line, an emoji table you skim, and an install block you can copy without scrolling.

Context / Trigger conditions

Use when any of:

  • "Write / generate / redo / polish my README", "make my README pop / cute / pretty".
  • "Give my repo a front page / a glow-up", "my README is just a wall of text".
  • "Add a hero banner / badges / a feature table / a demo GIF / an install section".
  • Open-sourcing a repo and it needs a README that earns a star.

Skip if: a terse internal-only repo (a one-paragraph README is correct), a strict corporate brand template you must follow, or the doc is an API reference / tutorial / changelog (different shape — see frontend-design / technical-writing).

The recipe — section order (top to bottom)

A README pops when it's scannable and front-loads value. Use this order; drop sections that don't apply, never reorder the top three.

# Section Why it's there
1 Hero (centered image/ASCII + title + emoji) First impression; shows the thing in 1 second. Baked-in recipe below.
2 Badge row Signals it's alive + legit (license, last-commit, version, "Claude Code skill").
3 Value-prop blockquote (one bold sentence) The single most important line. What it does + for whom, concretely.
4 Demo image/GIF + <sub> caption Show, don't tell. Caption explains what the reader is looking at.
5 What it does / Why it exists The concrete problem + the honest payoff (1–2 short paras).
6 Emoji feature/ingredient table The proven recipe — skimmable, one emoji + claim + why per row.
7 Quick start / Install (copy-paste block) The command, reachable without scrolling far. <details> for variants.
8 Usage example A realistic "you say X → it does Y" snippet.
9 Contributors ("Built with love") contrib.rocks image when others helped.
10 Limitations / honesty box What it's NOT, and where it's weak. Builds trust; separates it from marketing.
11 License + links Short footer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 175 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A 7df8969347e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pop-that-readme is a skill published in the GitHub repository wan-huiyan/cutify-this (1 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 216 tokens to every session and 2,285 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.