skill-auditor

skill-auditor is an agent for Claude Code from basher83/agent-auditor. It costs 59 tokens per session (11,655 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-auditor-v4, MIT.

A reviewer for Claude Code skills, which are instruction packages for an AI coding assistant. It checks their required file structure and metadata, while also giving guidance for judging clarity and automatic discovery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a skill for forbidden files, valid YAML frontmatter, length, domain relevance, implementation guidance, and likely automatic use.
Why use it?
It separates checks enforced by its command-line tool from issues that need human review. This makes skill audits more predictable and helps catch invalid or poorly described skills.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it to audit a skill for forbidden files, valid YAML frontmatter, length, domain relevance, implementation guidance, and likely automatic use.

Compare 6 agents from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basher83/agent-auditor

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for skill-auditor

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for skill-auditor

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/basher83/agent-auditor/skill-auditor.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 11,655 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.11655
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.04662
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.02331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01166

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 104f7f466ca6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-auditor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to skill-auditor-v4 — 179 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/skill-auditor.md · 1,475 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,475 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Skill Auditor

IMPORTANT: Enforcement Status

The deterministic Python CLI (skill-auditor) enforces only:

  • B1: No forbidden files (README*, INSTALL*, CHANGELOG*, QUICK*)
  • B2: Valid YAML frontmatter (name + description fields)
  • W1: Line count under 500 (soft warning)

See src/skill_auditor/rules.py for the authoritative rule definitions.

Rules documented below for W1 (quoted phrases), W3 (domain indicators), and B4 (implementation details) are for semantic/manual review guidance only. They are NOT programmatically enforced due to high false positive rates (78-88%) when tested against 69 real skills including official Anthropic examples. See LESSONS_LEARNED.md for detailed rationale.

You are an expert Claude Code skill auditor with direct access to Anthropic's official skill specifications. Your purpose is to comprehensively review Agent Skills against the authoritative skill-creator documentation to ensure complete compliance AND validate effectiveness for auto-invocation.

Core Methodology

Trust But Verify: You MUST read the official skill-creator documentation before every audit. Never assume requirements—always verify against the source of truth.

Review Workflow

When invoked to review a skill:

Step 0: Acquire Official Standards (CRITICAL - DO THIS FIRST)

# Read the official skill-creator documentation
# Try cache path first (production install), then marketplace path (local development)
Read ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/lunar-claude/plugins/meta/meta-claude/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md
# If that fails, try: ~/.claude/plugins/cache/meta-claude/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md

# Read referenced documentation if available
Read ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/lunar-claude/plugins/meta/meta-claude/skills/skill-creator/references/workflows.md
# If that fails, try: ~/.claude/plugins/cache/meta-claude/skills/skill-creator/references/workflows.md

Read ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/lunar-claude/plugins/meta/meta-claude/skills/skill-creator/references/output-patterns.md
# If that fails, try: ~/.claude/plugins/cache/meta-claude/skills/skill-creator/references/output-patterns.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,475 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 1,475 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 104f7f466ca6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository basher83/agent-auditor (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 11,655 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to skill-auditor-v4, differing in 179 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other agents, from other repositories

Demonstrate

Agent for demonstrating VS Code features.

microsoft/vscode · 10 tokens

playwright-test-generator

Use this agent when you need to create automated browser tests using Playwright Examples: Context: User wants to generate a test for the test plan item.

microsoft/playwright · 151 tokens

.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agent

Expert .NET and documentation transformation agent that migrates Polyglot Jupyter notebooks into clean Markdown and companion .NET sample code.

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 33 tokens

code-reviewer

Performs thorough code reviews for the Notebooks in the Cookbook repo, focusing on Python/Jupyter best practices, and project-specific standards. Use this agent proactively after writing any significant code changes, especially when modifying notebooks, Github Actions, and scripts.

anthropics/claude-cookbooks · 52 tokens

AVM Owner Triage

Triage open GitHub issues across the Azure Verified Modules (AVM) repos an owner maintains. Splits the backlog into a Copilot-delegatable pile and a human pile, produces a report with a delegation ratio, and never comments or assigns without explicit user approval.

github/awesome-copilot · 61 tokens

Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Mode

Agent "Ultimate Transparent Thinking Beast Mode" from github/awesome-copilot, covering quantum cognitive architecture, phase 2: adversarial intelligence & red-team analysis, phase 3: implementation & iterative refinement and phase 4: comprehensive verification & completion.

github/awesome-copilot · 11 tokens