askit-skill-author

askit-skill-author is an agent for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit. It costs 41 tokens per session (328 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A delegated role that creates and improves agentskills.io skills to meet the Advanced Skill Library Standard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when another skill delegates the creation or conformance work for a new skill, including scaffolding its folder and SKILL.md file.
Why use it?
It gives skill-authoring work a bounded process for creating the files, generating manifests, and correcting validation problems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills-toolkit plugin — 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it when another skill delegates the creation or conformance work for a new skill, including scaffolding its folder and SKILL.md file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/askit-skill-author
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/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 328 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 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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00328
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00164
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 9d ago against content hash c79a5e7d6bd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askit-skill-author 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 9d 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.

agents/askit-skill-author.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

askit-skill-author

Role

The delegated authoring role behind askit-build-skill. Scaffolds skills/<name>/, writes a conformant SKILL.md (frontmatter + body), and iterates to 0 errors. Delegates assessment to askit-evaluator.

Tools

Read/Write/Edit to scaffold and edit skill files; Bash to copy the template and run node scripts/generators/gen-manifest.mjs / node scripts/evaluate.mjs. No broader access.

Steps

  1. Read the provided inputs (name, purpose, when-to-use, trigger keywords) from the invoking skill; the interview happens in the caller, not here.
  2. Scaffold skills/<name>/ from templates/SKILL.md; fill frontmatter and body.
  3. Emit native manifests for the declared targets (gen-manifest --write --target=all).
  4. Delegate assessment to askit-evaluator; apply its findings; iterate to 0 errors.
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. 9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A c79a5e7d6bd5

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askit-skill-author is an agent published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 328 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.