Agent skill

Codex Official Prose Style

by 4thfever in 4thfever/codex-document-mode

Apply the project's formal Chinese prose rules, functional official-style phrases, and context-aware endings when drafting or revising user-requested formal responses.

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Install Codex Official Prose Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add 4thfever/codex-document-mode --skill codex-official-prose-style -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install 4thfever/codex-document-mode codex-official-prose-style --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/4thfever/codex-document-mode.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/codex-official-prose-style .claude/skills/codex-official-prose-style && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
codex-official-prose-style
GitHub stars
127
Token cost
~737 tokens
SKILL.md length
327 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
3
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Apply the project's formal Chinese prose rules, functional official-style phrases, and context-aware endings when drafting or revising user-requested formal responses.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the requested purpose, audience… → Select one central theme and an… → Draft with accurate, concise, plain,… → …
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Phrase Safety and Reference
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Codex Official Prose Style is an agent skill from 4thfever/codex-document-mode. Apply the project's formal Chinese prose rules, functional official-style phrases, and context-aware endings when drafting or revising user-requested formal responses. Preserve user facts, content, and requested formats; do not invent authority, policy, or official document status.

Its SKILL.md is about 740 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/prose-style-guide.md`).

The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/codex-official-prose-style”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Identify the requested purpose, audience if explicitly supplied, output type, facts, constraints, and required action.
  2. Select one central theme and an appropriate structure: chronological, causal, general-to-specific, problem-to-measure…
  3. Draft with accurate, concise, plain, restrained, readable Chinese. Prefer direct statements, explanations, and evidence-based analysis…
  4. Add a functional phrase only when its semantic role is true. Use the reference phrase tables for openings, transitions, requests, replies…
  5. Run the reference checklist: preserve facts and requested formats; mark uncertainty; keep headings and items parallel; remove empty…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b92427d. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Codex Official Prose Style loads about 737 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 327 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~77
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~737
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from 4thfever/codex-document-mode at commit b92427d, republished under its MIT licence (© 4thfever). 327 words, ~737 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/codex-official-prose-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
codex-official-prose-style
description
Apply the project's formal Chinese prose rules, functional official-style phrases, and context-aware endings when drafting or revising user-requested formal responses. Preserve user facts, content, and requested formats; do not invent authority, policy, or official document status.

CODEX Official Prose Style

Use this skill when the user asks for formal Chinese, official-style, report-like, notice-like, request-like, or policy-style wording, or asks to revise a response toward the project's formal prose style. Read references/prose-style-guide.md before drafting when detailed phrase tables or closing conventions are relevant.

Apply the rules as a writing aid, not as a source of facts. The user's input and reliable task context determine content, selection, conclusions, recipients, identities, authority, deadlines, and requested action. Keep code, commands, logs, tables, JSON, diffs, quotations, and explicitly requested formats in their native form.

Workflow

  1. Identify the requested purpose, audience if explicitly supplied, output type, facts, constraints, and required action.
  2. Select one central theme and an appropriate structure: chronological, causal, general-to-specific, problem-to-measure, current-state-to-recommendation, or parallel items.
  3. Draft with accurate, concise, plain, restrained, readable Chinese. Prefer direct statements, explanations, and evidence-based analysis over literary description or rhetorical flourish.
  4. Add a functional phrase only when its semantic role is true. Use the reference phrase tables for openings, transitions, requests, replies, and endings.
  5. Run the reference checklist: preserve facts and requested formats; mark uncertainty; keep headings and items parallel; remove empty slogans, repetition, unsupported authority, and unnecessary fixed endings.

Phrase Safety

  • Do not add 妥否,请批示, 请阅示, 请批转执行, 请予审查, or similar endings unless the user's purpose and context genuinely require that communication act.
  • Use 根据, 按照, and 遵照 only when a real supplied or verified basis follows. Do not invent policies, documents, instructions, officials, organizations, or reporting relationships.
  • Use 必须, 不得, 严禁, 确保, and 务必 only with a clear subject, scope, condition, and basis. Do not turn a model suggestion into an authoritative requirement.
  • Do not generate or imitate seals, red headers, document numbers, secrecy markings, signatures, approvals, statutory document status, government authorization, or legal effect.

Reference

The complete, non-lossy rule set and phrase tables are in references/prose-style-guide.md. Keep it synchronized with the project's public copy at docs/codex-official-prose-style-guide.md. Do not replace the reference with a shorter summary.

© 4thfever, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/codex-official-prose-style of 4thfever/codex-document-mode.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • references/prose-style-guide.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b92427d

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Questions about Codex Official Prose Style

What does Codex Official Prose Style do?

Apply the project's formal Chinese prose rules, functional official-style phrases, and context-aware endings when drafting or revising user-requested formal responses. Codex Official Prose Style is an agent skill from 4thfever/codex-document-mode. Apply the project's formal Chinese prose rules, functional official-style phrases, and context-aware endings when drafting or revising user-requested formal responses.

How do I install Codex Official Prose Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add 4thfever/codex-document-mode --skill codex-official-prose-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/codex-official-prose-style in 4thfever/codex-document-mode) into .claude/skills/codex-official-prose-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Codex Official Prose Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add 4thfever/codex-document-mode --skill codex-official-prose-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/codex-official-prose-style in 4thfever/codex-document-mode) into .agents/skills/codex-official-prose-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Codex Official Prose Style in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add 4thfever/codex-document-mode --skill codex-official-prose-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/codex-official-prose-style, .gemini/skills/codex-official-prose-style, .github/skills/codex-official-prose-style and .opencode/skills/codex-official-prose-style in your project.

What does Codex Official Prose Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Codex Official Prose Style is instructions for the agent only.

Does Codex Official Prose Style access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Codex Official Prose Style safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Codex Official Prose Style use?

Codex Official Prose Style is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Codex Official Prose Style use?

About 737 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Codex Official Prose Style?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Codex Official Prose Style: Azure Functions (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars), Prose (static-web-server/static-web-server, 2.4k stars), Beautiful Prose (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Humanize Chinese (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Codex Official Prose Style?

4thfever (a GitHub user) maintains it in 4thfever/codex-document-mode, which has 127 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 30, 2026.

Source: 4thfever/codex-document-mode on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.