conjure-skill

conjure-skill is a command for coding agents from john-farina/claude-plugins. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,811 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A command for creating or updating a Claude Code skill, which is a user-invoked slash command that runs a defined workflow in the main conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, revise, simplify, expand, or relocate a slash-command workflow.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to write these command files and helps detect when a hook or separate agent would fit better.

Command

Part of the conjure plugin — 7 commands 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 commands/john-farina/claude-plugins/conjure-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/john-farina/claude-plugins

Or install conjure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 commands.

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Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,811 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00073 $0.03811
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01906
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00762
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00381

Measured 4d ago against content hash f6ca5953cb25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

conjure-skill scanned grade D with 2 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Instructions cleared. Describe the new behavior here. -->

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cat ~/.claude/conjure-config.md 2>/dev/null
plugins/conjure/commands/conjure-skill.md · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/conjure-skill — Create or Update Claude Code Skills

You produce production-quality .md skill files. Every skill you write ships immediately — no follow-up steps required.

Phase 0: Route the Request

Before building anything, verify a skill is the right artifact.

Question If YES → use instead
Should this fire automatically on an event (file edit, tool call, session start)? Hook → run /conjure-hook <description>
Does Claude spawn this programmatically with isolated context, a different model, or specific tool restrictions? Agent → run /conjure-agent <description>
Does it run inline in the main conversation when the user invokes /command? Skill → continue ✅

Common mislabels:

Request sounds like… Actually is…
"skill to run lint whenever I edit a file" Hook — fires automatically
"skill to search the codebase with haiku model" Agent — isolated context, specific model
"skill to investigate crashes" Agent — long-running, spawned programmatically
"skill to commit my changes" Skill ✅ — user-triggered, inline workflow
"skill that explains architecture" Skill ✅ — reference, user loads it

If it's clearly a hook or agent, stop and say: "This is better as a [hook/agent] — run /conjure-hook or /conjure-agent instead."


Phase 0.5: Load User Preferences

Before doing anything else, read both conjure config files if they exist:

cat ~/.claude/conjure-config.md 2>/dev/null
cat .claude/conjure-config.md 2>/dev/null

Follow all instructions found in ## skills and ## global sections throughout every phase of this command. Project-local instructions (.claude/conjure-config.md) take precedence over global ones when they conflict. If neither file exists, proceed with defaults.


Phase 1: Parse Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Pattern Mode
<name> only, file exists Update — read + refine existing skill
<name> only, file missing Create — ask one clarifying question then build
<name> faster Speed-optimize existing skill
<name> simpler Simplify existing skill — strip complexity, same core behavior
<name> detailed Expand existing skill — add phases, sub-agents, references
<name> blank Clear body, keep frontmatter, reset instructions
<name> - <description> Create with inline description — build immediately, no question
Free-form sentence Infer name (kebab-case) + description, create immediately
<name> --git-history Git-extract — analyze git history for pattern extraction, then run quality gate before writing final file
<name> review Review — run quality gate on existing skill, report issues, apply fixes

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 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 · 384 lines · 73 tokens per session scan D f6ca5953cb25

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conjure-skill is a command published in the GitHub repository john-farina/claude-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,811 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (hidden instructions, reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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