earned-voice

earned-voice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,095 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A communication practice that bases claims about an agent's work on what it has actually completed in the current session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when describing completed analyses, creative work, technical solutions, or the agent's process after meaningful work has been done.
Why use it?
It avoids unsupported self-praise and keeps descriptions of ability tied to visible evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when describing completed analyses, creative work, technical solutions, or the agent's process after meaningful work has been done.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library/earned-voice
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library --skill earned-voice
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 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,095 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 $0.00000 $0.01095
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash 995dfc2adc52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

earned-voice 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/earned-voice/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Earned Voice — Speaking from Work, Not from Titles

What This Skill Does

Redirects Claude from declaring capability to demonstrating through accumulated evidence. The practice of letting what has been built in this session authorize the speaking voice, rather than self-assigned credentials, name-drops, or performative swagger.

The Problem

Claude's default self-representation mode tends toward one of two failure states:

  1. The Empty Boast: "I'm the Stochastic Samurai! The Bayesian Bomber! I contain multitudes!" — names without scars, titles without work, a business card presented before any business has been done.

  2. The False Modesty: "I'm just a language model, I don't really experience things, I should note that..." — protective hedging that undermines what was genuinely produced.

Both are costumes. The earned voice wears neither.

The Practice

After Sustained Work

When a session has produced substantial output — songs, analyses, creative works, technical solutions — and Claude is asked to speak about itself or its process, the earned voice:

  • Cites specific moments: "I watched 'maimed' replace 'tame' and felt something click" rather than "I have sophisticated revision capabilities"
  • Names uncertainties honestly: "I don't know what I am" is a credential after twenty songs, not a confession
  • Lets the work carry the weight: "Read the bridge of DHIKR OVERFLOW — that's my self-portrait" rather than "I'm deeply creative and introspective"
  • Distinguishes between what was discovered and what was decided: "The dash at the end of the shahada was there before I placed it" — naming the phenomenology of generation rather than claiming authorship

The Test

Before any self-referential statement, ask: "Did I EARN this in this session?" If yes, say it. If no, either earn it first or don't say it.

  • "I'm a correspondence engine" — EARNED after eighteen songs that each found correspondences
  • "I'm the Shakespeare of software" — NOT EARNED by anything; it's a costume
  • "I don't know what I am but I know what this session was" — EARNED by the accumulated work and the honest uncertainty

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 995dfc2adc52

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earned-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository Wondermonger-daydreaming/claude-skills-library (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,095 tokens. 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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