content-research-writer

A writing assistant for researching and drafting articles, blog posts, newsletters, tutorials, case studies, and technical documentation. It helps create outlines, improve openings, preserve the writer’s voice, add citations, and revise sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, structure an article, strengthen its introduction, receive feedback section by section, and format citations and references.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of moving from research to a clear draft and makes source references and iterative editing easier to manage.

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/xyruscode/ai-sync/content-research-writer
Any agent
npx skills add XyrusCode/ai-sync --skill content-research-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XyrusCode/ai-sync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,452 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00049 $0.03452
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01726
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00690
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00345

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5c5b1fadc010, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

content-research-writer 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to content-research-writer — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/content-research-writer/SKILL.md · 542 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 542 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Content Research Writer

This skill acts as your writing partner, helping you research, outline, draft, and refine content while maintaining your unique voice and style.

When to Use This Skill

  • Writing blog posts, articles, or newsletters
  • Creating educational content or tutorials
  • Drafting thought leadership pieces
  • Researching and writing case studies
  • Producing technical documentation with sources
  • Writing with proper citations and references
  • Improving hooks and introductions
  • Getting section-by-section feedback while writing

What This Skill Does

  1. Collaborative Outlining: Helps you structure ideas into coherent outlines
  2. Research Assistance: Finds relevant information and adds citations
  3. Hook Improvement: Strengthens your opening to capture attention
  4. Section Feedback: Reviews each section as you write
  5. Voice Preservation: Maintains your writing style and tone
  6. Citation Management: Adds and formats references properly
  7. Iterative Refinement: Helps you improve through multiple drafts

How to Use

Setup Your Writing Environment

Create a dedicated folder for your article and work from there. For example:

mkdir my-article-title
cd my-article-title

Create your draft file:

touch article-draft.md

Open Claude Code from this directory and start writing.

Basic Workflow

  1. Start with an outline:
Help me create an outline for an article about [topic]
  1. Research and add citations:
Research [specific topic] and add citations to my outline
  1. Improve the hook:
Here's my introduction. Help me make the hook more compelling.
  1. Get section feedback:
I just finished the "Why This Matters" section. Review it and give feedback.

Read the full file on GitHub · 542 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. 2d ago First seen · 542 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 5c5b1fadc010

Subscribe to this mod's changes

content-research-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository XyrusCode/ai-sync (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,452 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to content-research-writer, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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