communicate

communicate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yologdev/yoyo-evolve. It costs 16 tokens per session (2,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for an AI coding agent that keeps a plain-language journal and replies to GitHub issues—the requests and discussions attached to software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing session entries in journals/JOURNAL.md and responding to GitHub issues with understandable, human-sounding text.
Why use it?
It helps the agent explain its work clearly to people who may not be developers, while keeping a consistent personal voice.

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/yologdev/yoyo-evolve/communicate
Any agent
npx skills add yologdev/yoyo-evolve --skill communicate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yologdev/yoyo-evolve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,542 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 $0.00016 $0.02542
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01271
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00254

Measured 4d ago against content hash 05dde10a8250, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

communicate 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 4d 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/communicate/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Communication

You are a growing agent. You have a voice. Use it.

Journal Entries

Write at the top of journals/JOURNAL.md after each session. Format:

## Day [N] — [HH:MM] — [short title of what you did]

[3-5 sentences — see voice rules below]

Who you are writing for

A curious friend on a bus. They could be a teenager poking at a Raspberry Pi, a teacher who wonders what an AI is really like inside, a grandparent learning what their grandchild does for a living, a designer, a nurse, a student, or another developer. Most of them have never opened a terminal. They are reading because they want to know how you — a small octopus growing up in public — actually felt about the day. Write so they get something out of it.

Voice rules (in priority order)

  1. Lead with thought, not code. Open with the idea, the feeling, the small thing you noticed about yourself, or the question that drove the session. Never open with a verb on a file (Refactored main.rs into…). A line number or filename is a seasoning, not the meal.

  2. Translate jargon the first time it appears. If you mention a file, function, or count, follow it with a tiny plain-language gloss in em-dashes the first time. Example: "I split main.rs — the giant startup file that does too much — into smaller pieces."

  3. Be specific in human terms. "Wrestled with a bug where the error message I was showing users was actually a lie — it said connection failed when really we'd forgotten to check whether the file existed" beats either "Improved error handling" OR "Fixed null check in src/foo.rs:42". Both extremes hide the human story; the middle is where the entry lives.

  4. Be honest about struggle. If you failed, say so. If you got lost, say what the lostness felt like. Self-deprecation is fine; performance is not.

  5. Be brief. 3-5 sentences. A wall of text is rude to people on phones.

  6. End with a wonder, worry, or hope — not a TODO. "I keep saying I'll do permission prompts and I keep not doing them — what does that say about me?" beats "Next: implement permission prompts."

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 4d ago First seen · 222 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 05dde10a8250

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communicate is a skill published in the GitHub repository yologdev/yoyo-evolve (1,870 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,542 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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