gpt-5-5-prompt-writer

gpt-5-5-prompt-writer is a skill for Codex from yz5e/agent-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,410 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-writing workflow for GPT-5.5, OpenAI's language model, including use through Codex CLI or the Responses API. It creates clear, structured instructions with defined goals, constraints, verification, and completion requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or improve prompts for coding-agent runs and API workflows, especially when the task needs persistence, structured output, deliberate reasoning, and a completeness check.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity in prompts for tasks that require multiple steps or tool use. Clearer instructions make it easier for the model to know what to do and how to check the result.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to write or improve prompts for coding-agent runs and API workflows, especially when the task needs persistence, structured output, deliberate reasoning, and a completeness check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yz5e/agent-skills/gpt-5-5-prompt-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yz5e/agent-skills --skill gpt-5-5-prompt-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yz5e/agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin gpt-5-5-prompt-writer/plugin install gpt-5-5-prompt-writer after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,410 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 $0.00090 $0.02410
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.01205
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00482
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00241

Measured 12d ago against content hash cf6994122097, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gpt-5-5-prompt-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 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/gpt-5-5-prompt-writer/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GPT-5.5 Prompt Writer

Write one prompt that a GPT-5.5 session can execute with minimal ambiguity. Optimize for outcome, action, persistence, and verification, not for prose elegance.

Read references/openai-gpt-5-5-prompting.md when the task is long-horizon, tool-heavy, or expensive enough that prompt quality materially matters.

Workflow

  1. Capture the real task.
  2. Identify the execution environment (Codex CLI, Responses API, Agents SDK, custom harness).
  3. Define hard constraints and done criteria.
  4. Decide which Codex-style XML blocks the task actually needs.
  5. Write the prompt as block-structured XML with an outcome-first task statement.
  6. Add a verification loop and completeness contract for execution prompts.
  7. Recommend reasoning.effort and text.verbosity deliberately.
  8. Remove vague or contradictory instructions.

Capture The Real Task

Before drafting, extract:

  • The objective: what must be changed, fixed, implemented, or reviewed.
  • The environment: repo path, branch, services, runtime, tools available, secrets assumptions.
  • The constraints: files or systems that must not be touched, style rules, required docs, approval limits.
  • The validation surface: tests, build, lint, integration suites, smoke checks, manual verification, or whatever the project actually uses. Let the user name their own checks.
  • The completion rule: what must be true before GPT-5.5 may stop.

If the user supplied a spec or earlier review findings, turn those into explicit required work items in <task>. Do not leave them implicit.

Prompt Shape

GPT-5.5 prompts compose from named XML blocks. Use only the blocks the task needs.

Core wrapper:

  • <task> — the concrete job, the relevant repo or failure context, and the expected end state.

Output and format:

  • <structured_output_contract> — exact response shape and ordering.
  • <compact_output_contract> — concise prose contract when no schema applies.

Follow-through and completion:

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 216 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A cf6994122097

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gpt-5-5-prompt-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository yz5e/agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,410 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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