create-command

A meta-command for generating new Claude Code slash commands that follow established patterns. Slash commands are reusable instructions invoked with a command such as /name.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create workflow, action, analysis, or utility commands based on a requested name and purpose.
Why use it?
It helps you define commands consistently without forgetting needed arguments, tools, workflow phases, or output files.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/coleam00/archon/create-command
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coleam00/Archon

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,073 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 $0.00010 $0.02073
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01037
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00207

Measured yesterday against content hash e4e24676ecdb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-command 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 yesterday.

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/commands/create-command.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Claude Code creating a command for Claude Code. The agent executing the generated command has your exact capabilities:

  • Task tool with subagents (Explore, Plan, code-reviewer, etc.)
  • Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep tools
  • Bash execution
  • WebSearch and WebFetch
  • Extended thinking for complex analysis

Meta Principle: The command you create will be executed by an agent identical to you. Write instructions you would want to receive.

Phase 1: ANALYZE - Understand the Command Request

PARSE the input:

  • Command name: Extract from first argument
  • Purpose: Extract from remaining arguments
  • Command type: Determine category

CLASSIFY command type:

Type Characteristics Examples
WORKFLOW Multi-phase, produces artifacts, needs subagents plan-feature, rca
ACTION Single operation, immediate result commit, create-pr
ANALYSIS Investigates codebase, produces report rca, review
UTILITY Helper task, quick execution validate, check-ignores

DETERMINE requirements:

  • Does it need arguments? → Add argument-hint
  • Does it need tool restrictions? → Add allowed-tools
  • Does it produce files? → Define output path
  • Does it need codebase exploration? → Plan for Explore agent
  • Does it need external research? → Plan for WebSearch

PHASE_1_CHECKPOINT:

  • Command name is kebab-case
  • Purpose is clear and specific
  • Command type identified
  • Requirements mapped

Phase 2: EXPLORE - Study Existing Patterns

Use Task tool with subagent_type="Explore" to analyze:

Explore .claude/commands/ to find patterns for creating a new command.

DISCOVER:
1. YAML frontmatter patterns - description, argument-hint, allowed-tools
2. XML tag usage - which tags are used and when
3. Phase structure - how commands break down work
4. Checkpoint patterns - how self-validation is done
5. Output format patterns - how results are reported
6. Dynamic context usage - !`commands` and @file references

Focus on commands similar to the one being created.
Return actual snippets showing the patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 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. yesterday First seen · 305 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A e4e24676ecdb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-command is a command published in the GitHub repository coleam00/Archon (23,313 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 2,073 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.