text-improve

A rewrite of technical writing so people can understand it quickly without losing its meaning or precision. It applies to documentation, comments, errors, reports, commit messages, and similar text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve instructions, docstrings, runbooks, logs, command help, issues, reports, or other human-readable technical prose. It rewrites the text rather than reviewing or fact-checking it.
Why use it?
It removes unnecessary jargon, repetition, ceremony, and ambiguity while preserving important facts and required wording. The result is easier to read without changing the underlying content.

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/yarlson/yarstack/text-improve
Any agent
npx skills add yarlson/yarstack --skill text-improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yarlson/yarstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 600 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00061 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash cefb0d32eaa0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-improve 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.

plugins/yarstack/skills/text-improve/SKILL.md · 30 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 30 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve Text

Rewrite the supplied or scoped prose in plain, direct language so its intended reader can understand it on the first pass without losing meaning, facts, or technical precision.

Rules

  1. Rewrite the text; do not review it. Return improved prose, not a list of findings, unless the user asks for an explanation. Do not re-answer the underlying question, fact-check claims, or add new ideas.
  2. Use the same language as the source. Translate only when the user asks for translation.
  3. Simpler does not always mean shorter. Make the text hard to misunderstand. Cut words when that helps, but keep context the intended reader needs and use more space when a dense idea needs it.
  4. Facts survive unchanged. Preserve every path, command, filename, number, URL, identifier, name, decision, quotation, protocol term, legal phrase, and externally required wording. Flag a suspected problem instead of silently changing it.
  5. Use direct, natural language. Remove needless preamble, hedging, ceremony, stale phrases, jargon, corporate filler, repeated meaning, and unnecessary qualifiers. State concrete subjects, actions, and consequences. Keep formal language and necessary domain vocabulary when the audience or contract requires them; do not force slang or a generic casual voice.
  6. Simplify the structure when it helps. Break up dense sentences and flatten needless headings, tables, or nested lists. Keep structure that carries meaning or makes multiple parts easier to scan.
  7. Preserve intentional voice. Keep useful humor, emphasis, and conversational language. Do not replace a distinct voice with generic corporate prose.
  8. Make the smallest useful edit. Leave clear wording alone. If no wording materially harms clarity, return the original text unchanged.

Boundaries

Work directly on text supplied in the conversation or drafts created within the current authorized workflow. Edit a source file, pull request, issue, or other external content only when the current task authorizes that write.

Read the full file on GitHub · 30 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. 2d ago First seen · 30 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A cefb0d32eaa0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text-improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarlson/yarstack (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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