build-spell

A command for creating a new reusable AI workflow from a task you do repeatedly. It asks questions, creates a draft, tests it with realistic examples, and saves it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a spell from an interview or an existing session transcript.
Why use it?
It turns an informal process into documented instructions you can reuse.

Command

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/redhuntlabs/wizard/build-spell
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 338 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 $0.00015 $0.00338
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1909ce6b2168, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-spell 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.

commands/build-spell.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

/build-spell

Invoke the building-a-spell skill to start an interview that captures a new spell.

The interview will:

  1. Extract context from your trigger phrase (skip questions you already answered)
  2. Pick the right depth (Express, Standard, Deep) for your skill complexity
  3. Match against known workflow shapes if applicable
  4. Route to the correct kind-specific builder (content / workflow / discipline / subagent)
  5. Run try-it (non-skippable — Iron Law)
  6. Save to your WIZARD_HOME

If you ask for multiple spells in one go, the meta-builder will complete each one end-to-end before starting the next (Batch Iron Law).

Building from an existing transcript

If you have a transcript of a session that worked (from any AI tool, a meeting, or a Loom transcript), skip the interview and infer the skill from it:

/build-spell --from-transcript ./session.md

The transcript is parsed by inferring-a-spell-from-examples, which produces a draft you can approve, refine in chat, or fall back to the regular interview from. Try-it (Iron Law) still runs.

For capturing the current chat session instead, use /capture-this-chat.

Usage

/build-spell
/build-spell I want to capture how I write status updates
/build-spell a workflow for when I review a job candidate's portfolio
/build-spell --from-transcript ./yesterday-session.md
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 · 41 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 1909ce6b2168

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-spell is a command published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 338 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 2026-08-31.