blog

A guided writing workflow that interviews you about a topic, learns from how you answer, and creates a blog post in your voice as Markdown or HTML.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a topic and conversation into a blog-post draft for publishing or further editing.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to plan, draft, and edit a post alone while helping the result sound less like generic AI writing.

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/zate/cc-plugins/blog
Any agent
npx skills add Zate/cc-plugins --skill blog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zate/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,366 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 $0.02366
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01183
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00237

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8e434e573fc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blog 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/blog-writer/skills/blog/SKILL.md · 318 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 318 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blog Writer

Create blog posts through a guided conversational workflow. Interviews you about your topic, captures your voice from how you answer, writes a draft matching your tone, removes AI patterns, and publishes as markdown or HTML.

Quick Start

If $ARGUMENTS is provided, use it as the initial topic. Otherwise, start by asking for a topic in Phase 1.


Phase 1: Interview

Goal: Understand the topic AND capture how the user naturally communicates.

CRITICAL: Pay close attention to HOW the user answers — not just WHAT they say. Their word choices, sentence length, formality, humor, directness, and vocabulary ARE the voice profile.

Ask questions one group at a time using AskUserQuestion, then follow up with open-ended questions to capture natural voice.

Step 1a: Topic & Audience

AskUserQuestion:
  questions:
    - question: "What's this blog post about? Give me the elevator pitch."
      header: "Topic"
      multiSelect: false
      options:
        - label: "Technical tutorial"
          description: "How-to, walkthrough, or guide"
        - label: "Opinion / hot take"
          description: "Your perspective on something in your field"
        - label: "Story / experience"
          description: "Something that happened, lessons learned"
        - label: "Announcement / update"
          description: "Product launch, project update, news"
    - question: "Who are you writing this for?"
      header: "Audience"
      multiSelect: false
      options:
        - label: "Developers / technical"
          description: "People who write code"
        - label: "Business / leadership"
          description: "Decision makers, managers"
        - label: "General / mixed"
          description: "Broad audience, no assumed expertise"
        - label: "Community / peers"
          description: "People in your specific niche"

Step 1b: Voice Capture Questions

These are open-ended to capture natural writing voice. Ask via AskUserQuestion with options that encourage free-text responses.

Read the full file on GitHub · 318 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 · 318 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 8e434e573fc5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

blog is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zate/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,366 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 2026-08-31.

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