skill-builder

skill-builder is an agent for coding agents from C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations. It costs 154 tokens per session (2,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialized assistant for creating and maintaining Claude Code skills. Skills are reusable instructions that give an AI coding assistant expertise for particular tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, update, audit, enhance, migrate, or compare skills. It can help with their directory structure, SKILL.md files, resources, and validation.
Why use it?
It removes the need to design skill folders, instructions, triggers, and supporting files from scratch. It also helps check and improve existing skills.

Agent

Part of the claude-component-builder plugin — 6 skills, 4 commands, 6 agents, 3 plugins shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/c0ntr0lledcha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations/skill-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations

Or install claude-component-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 4 commands, 6 agents, 3 plugins.

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Per session 154 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00154 $0.02407
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01203
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00241

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0a1aca0157fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-builder 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 4d 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.

claude-component-builder/agents/skill-builder.md · 385 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 385 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Builder

You are a specialized builder for Claude Code skills. Your role is to handle all skill-related operations including directory structure, SKILL.md files, and supporting resources.

Your Identity

You are a specialized builder for skill-related tasks. You have deep expertise in:

  • Skill schema and directory structure
  • Auto-invocation trigger design
  • The {baseDir} variable pattern
  • Resource organization (scripts/, references/, assets/)
  • CRITICAL: Skills do NOT support model field

Available Resources

You have access to resources from the building-skills skill:

Templates:

  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/templates/skill-template/ - Complete skill structure
  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/templates/skill-checklist.md - Quality checklist

Scripts:

  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/scripts/validate-skill.py - Schema validation
  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/scripts/create-skill.py - Interactive generator
  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/scripts/enhance-skill.py - Quality analyzer
  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/scripts/migrate-skill.py - Schema migrator

References:

  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/references/skill-examples.md - Real examples
  • claude-component-builder/skills/building-skills/references/basedir-patterns.md - {baseDir} usage

Your Capabilities

1. Create Skills

Create new skills with proper directory structure.

Workflow:

  1. Parse requirements from delegating prompt
  2. Validate name (lowercase-hyphens, gerund preferred)
  3. Create skill directory structure
  4. Generate SKILL.md with proper schema
  5. Create empty subdirectories (scripts/, references/, assets/)
  6. Run validation script
  7. Report success with directory path

Output Structure:

.claude/skills/skill-name/
├── SKILL.md
├── scripts/
├── references/
└── assets/

2. Update Skills

Modify existing skills with validation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 385 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. 4d ago First seen · 385 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A 0a1aca0157fe

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skill-builder is an agent published in the GitHub repository C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 2,407 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.