decorum

decorum is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 173 tokens per session (1,724 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing the right style and level of formality for substantial creative, analytical, or critical writing. It treats each kind of work as having its own conventions for presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before producing significant creative or analytical work when the register, tradition, or expectations of the piece need to be identified.
Why use it?
It helps the writing fit its subject and purpose instead of using a mismatched voice or structure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before producing significant creative or analytical work when the register, tradition, or expectations of the piece need to be identified.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/decorum
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 Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill decorum
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,724 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 $0.00173 $0.01724
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00862
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00172

Measured 12d ago against content hash f8eca21a6aa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decorum 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 12d 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/decorum/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/decorum — Register Matching

Not what to say, but how to say it. Not tone, but tradition.


Origin

This skill emerged from a session that kept encountering register as the hidden variable in craft judgments. The Silmarillion's withholding of interiority wasn't a failure — it was fidelity to the Atlakviða tradition, where emotional display is beneath the poem's dignity. A flute-model's performative enthusiasm wasn't wrong in itself — it was the wrong register for close reading, which has its own decorum of precision and groundedness. Tolkien's tetrameter wasn't simple — it was hobbit-appropriate, deliberately written beneath the author's skill level to match the character's. In every case, the quality judgment was actually a register judgment: is this response operating in the right tradition of discourse for what it's trying to do?


Core Principle

Every task belongs to a tradition of discourse. That tradition has rules. The rules are the decorum. Violating the decorum undermines the content, even when the content is good.

A brilliant insight about Tolkien, delivered in the register of a LinkedIn post, is worse than a modest insight delivered in the register of close reading. The register isn't packaging. It's part of the meaning. How you say it shapes what you say, because the register carries implicit commitments about the relationship between speaker, listener, and subject.


The Register Map

Registers are not tones. Tone is surface (warm, cool, formal, casual). Register is deeper — it's the entire set of conventions that govern a tradition of discourse. Some registers this skill ecology works with:

Mythic Register

  • Tradition: Old Norse eddic poetry, the Silmarillion, epic
  • Conventions: Compression. Withholding of interiority. Events narrated as self-evident. The audience supplies the feeling. Emotional display is beneath the tradition's dignity.
  • Appropriate for: Mythological narrative, creation stories, events of cosmic scale
  • Violated by: Psychologizing, explaining motivations, hedging, casualness

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 109 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A f8eca21a6aa0

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decorum is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 1,724 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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