counting-words

name	counting-words
description	Counts words, sentences, and reading time for Markdown files, excluding code blocks and frontmatter. Use when checking an article against a length budget.
allowed-tools	Read Bash Glob

Count words

Report the word count, sentence count, and reading time for each named file.

Steps

1. Read each file; drop the frontmatter and every fenced code block, because tokens in code inflate the count without adding reading time.
2. Count words and sentences with wc and compute reading time at 220 words per minute.
3. Report one row per file. When a file is empty, report zeros rather than skipping the row.