# Text Stats

> Compute 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.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-curie-eng-curie-text-stats`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [curie-eng](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/curie-eng)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Cloud & Infrastructure](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/cloud-infrastructure)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [curie-eng](https://github.com/curie-eng)
- **Source:** https://github.com/curie-eng/curie/tree/main/examples/text-stats-engine/skills/text-stats
- **Website:** https://www.curietech.ai

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-curie-eng-curie-text-stats
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Text statistics

## When to run
The user asks how many words or characters a passage has, or how long it takes
to read.

## How to answer
1. Take the text the user provided (or asks about).
2. Call the in-bundle engine's tool for the metric requested:
   - `word_count` for a word total.
   - `char_count` for a character total (pass `include_whitespace: false` to
     exclude spaces).
   - `reading_time_minutes` for an estimated read time at 200 wpm.
3. 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.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [curie-eng](https://github.com/curie-eng)
- **Source:** [curie-eng/curie](https://github.com/curie-eng/curie)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://www.curietech.ai

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** yes
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-curie-eng-curie-text-stats
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/curie-eng
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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