Metamedium

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Strategizing and the key question is whether to optimize content (what)
• Change form (how/medium)
• Content vs form
• Perspective shift

Example prompts

• “내용 vs 형식”
• “content vs form”
• “metamedium”
• “/metamedium”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Identify and Label
2. 2Surface the Fork
3. 3Branch

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fd9c207. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

  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

Metamedium loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 122 tokens; SKILL.md has 550 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~122

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.3k

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

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 team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives at commit fd9c207, republished under its MIT licence (© team-attention). 550 words, ~1,418 tokens.

name

metamedium

description

This skill should be used when the user is building, planning, or strategizing and the key question is whether to optimize content (what) or change form (how/medium). Trigger on "내용 vs 형식", "content vs form", "metamedium", "형식을 바꿔볼까", "새로운 포맷", "관점 전환", "perspective shift", "다른 방법 없을까", "같은 방식이 안 먹혀", "diminishing returns". Applies Alan Kay's metamedium concept to surface form-level alternatives. For requirement clarification use vague; for strategy blind spots use unknown.

[CONTENT] Writing a blog post about AI consulting
[FORM]    Building a pipeline that turns consulting retros into blog posts
[CONTENT] Deploying a new API endpoint
[FORM]    Building a codegen that auto-generates endpoints from schemas
[CONTENT] Fixing a flaky test
[FORM]    Building a test infrastructure that prevents flaky tests by design

questions:
  - question: "This is currently [CONTENT/FORM]-level work. Where should effort go?"
    header: "Level"
    options:
      - label: "Proceed with content"
        description: "Optimize within the current form — faster, lower risk"
      - label: "Explore form change"
        description: "What if the medium/structure itself changed? Higher leverage"
      - label: "Content now, note form"
        description: "Do the content work, but flag the form opportunity for later"
    multiSelect: false

## Content/Form Analysis

**Current work**: [description]
**Classification**: [CONTENT / FORM]

### Form Opportunity
| | Detail |
|---|--------|
| **Alternative form** | [what it would look like] |
| **New properties** | [what it enables that current form doesn't] |
| **Minimum test** | [smallest version to validate] |
| **Status** | [exploring / noted for later / not applicable] |

© team-attention, 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 1 other file (references) in plugins/clarify/skills/metamedium of team-attention/plugins-for-claude-natives.

• SKILL.md
• references/alan-kay-quotes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fd9c207