Text statistics
SkillDev toolsCompute word count, character count, or reading time for a piece of text using the in-bundle text-stats engine. Invoke whenever the user asks how long a passage is, how many words or characters it has, or how long it takes to read.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Text statistics skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by curie-eng/curie in examples/text-stats-engine/skills/text-stats/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
When to run
The user asks how many words or characters a passage has, or how long it takes to read.
How to answer
- Take the text the user provided (or asks about).
- Call the in-bundle engine's tool for the metric requested:
word_countfor a word total.char_countfor a character total (passinclude_whitespace: falseto exclude spaces).reading_time_minutesfor an estimated read time at 200 wpm.
- Report the number plainly, naming the metric and the text it applies to.
Notes
The engine runs as an in-bundle stdio MCP server (scripts/engine_server.py,
declared in .mcp.json). The harness spawns it as a subprocess; there is no
network service and nothing to provision. See this bundle's README for when to
prefer this shape over a CLI subprocess.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 35
- Forks
- 3
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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text-stats- Source
- github.com/curie-eng/curie