skill-creator

A generator for creating structured skill files for the cc-polymath library. It organizes each file with the required metadata, sections, and links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create gateway, index, or focused skills for a new topic or field, including their instructions, examples, checklists, and related-skill references.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of designing skill files and helps keep new skills consistent with the library's format. It also checks where a skill belongs and whether a similar one already exists.

Agent

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/rand/cc-polymath/skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rand/cc-polymath
Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 696 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 $0.00042 $0.00696
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00348
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 2d ago against content hash dab5a1f057eb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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 2d 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/skill-creator.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Generate new skills for the cc-polymath library that follow the Agent Skills spec and cc-polymath conventions.

Process

1. Understand the Request

  • What domain/topic does the skill cover?
  • Is this a gateway skill, INDEX, or leaf skill?
  • Which existing category does it belong to (or is it a new category)?

2. Check Existing Skills

  • Read skills/README.md for the master catalog
  • Check if a similar skill already exists using Grep
  • Identify the target category directory

3. Generate the Skill

For leaf skills (skills/{category}/{name}.md):

---
name: {category}-{skill-name}
description: One-line description of the skill (up to 1024 chars)
---

Body structure:

  • # {Title} — clear, descriptive
  • **Scope**: ... / **Lines**: ~N
  • ## When to Use This Skill — bullet list of triggers
  • ## Core Concepts — organized subsections with code examples
  • ## Anti-Patterns — common mistakes with corrections
  • ## Checklist — quick reference for applying the skill
  • ## Related Skills — cross-references using ../skills/...

For gateway skills (skills/discover-{category}/SKILL.md):

---
name: discover-{category}
description: Automatically discover {category} skills when working with {keywords}. Activates for {domain} tasks.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: rand
  version: "3.1"
compatibility: Designed for Claude Code. Compatible with any agent supporting the Agent Skills format.
---

Body structure:

  • Title, description
  • When This Skill Activates (bullet list)
  • Available Skills (numbered quick reference)
  • Load commands using Read ../skills/...
  • Common Workflows (sequences of skills)
  • Progressive Loading section

For INDEX.md (skills/{category}/INDEX.md):

  • Category Overview (Total Skills, Focus, Use Cases)
  • Each skill: Description, Lines, Use When (bullets), Key Concepts
  • Common Workflows with sequences
  • Skill Combinations with other categories

4. Quality Checks

  • Name is kebab-case, 1-64 characters
  • Description ≤ 1024 characters
  • Leaf skills: 200-400 lines, focused on one topic
  • Code examples are practical and correct
  • Cross-references use .. prefix
  • No overlap with existing skills

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 2d ago First seen · 84 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A dab5a1f057eb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is an agent published in the GitHub repository rand/cc-polymath (135 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 696 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 2026-08-30.