skill

A command for loading and running a named coding-agent skill with supplied arguments, even when automatic selection would choose something else.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a specific skill, pass it arguments, check whether the skill exists, and receive suggestions for similar names when it does not.
Why use it?
It removes the need to describe a task in detail when you already know which skill should handle it. It also helps test skills that are new or still being developed.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jansenanalytics/claudex/skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 340 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00013 $0.00340
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00034

Measured yesterday against content hash 63813a8a662c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skill scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

2. **Verify the skill exists:** `ls ~/.claude-agent/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md`. If it doesn't, say so and (if jq + skill-index.json available) suggest the 3 closest matches by name.
commands/skill.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

The argument is <skill-name> [args...]. Force-load that specific skill and execute it with the given arguments, regardless of whether the description matching would have picked it up.

Steps:

  1. Parse the argument: first word is the skill name, rest are passed as args/intent.
  2. Verify the skill exists: ls ~/.claude-agent/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md. If it doesn't, say so and (if jq + skill-index.json available) suggest the 3 closest matches by name.
  3. Read the skill's SKILL.md in full — load its instructions into your reasoning context.
  4. Execute the skill following its instructions, applying the remaining argument as the user's request/input to that skill.
  5. Return the result in the format the skill specifies (or Telegram-friendly if unspecified).

When to use this command vs. just stating intent:

  • The auto-selector picked the wrong skill and you want to force a specific one
  • You're testing a new or experimental skill
  • The skill name is shorter than describing what you want (e.g. /skill weather Oslo vs. typing out "give me the weather for Oslo")

If the skill body says it requires support files in scripts/, references/, or assets/, use the conventional $CLAUDE_SKILLS_DIR/<skill-name>/... path (default ~/.claude-agent/.claude/skills/).

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 · 23 lines · 13 tokens per session scan B 63813a8a662c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill is a command published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 340 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.