reading

reading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,536 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Instructions for turning an Aesthetic Computer essay into a spoken-word podcast episode using a specified ElevenLabs voice. It also covers adding music, making a captioned video, and publishing through Buzzsprout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Narrating essays, creating a lo-fi music bed, producing captioned videos, and publishing episodes that Buzzsprout distributes to podcast platforms.
Why use it?
It turns a written essay into a prepared audio and video publication without requiring each production step to be planned separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/reading
Any agent
npx skills add whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer --skill reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 reading

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/reading.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/reading)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/reading"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer/reading.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,536 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00103 $0.01536
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00154

Measured 5d ago against content hash e5010c173f0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reading 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/reading/SKILL.md · 97 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 97 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A e5010c173f0d

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reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository whistlegraph/aesthetic-computer (91 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,536 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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