skill-use

skill-use is a command for coding agents from stevesolun/micro-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that activates a named converted micro-skill pipeline. It finds the pipeline, checks whether its original source has changed, and runs the available staged process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a converted skill by name and detect when that conversion should be refreshed.
Why use it?
It helps avoid running a missing or outdated converted workflow without warning the user first.

Command

Part of the micro-skill-pipeline plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks 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/stevesolun/micro-skills/skill-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stevesolun/micro-skills

Or install micro-skill-pipeline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 543 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 $0.00022 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 4d ago against content hash 155f9fd0f968, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-use 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 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.

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.

micro-skill-pipeline/commands/skill-use.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Activate the converted micro-skill pipeline for "$ARGUMENTS".

Steps

  1. Find the converted skill: Look for ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/converted/$ARGUMENTS/SKILL.md. If it doesn't exist, report: "No converted pipeline found for '$ARGUMENTS'. Run /skill-list to see available conversions, or /skill-convert to create one."

  2. Staleness check: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/converted/$ARGUMENTS/original-hash.txt to get the stored hash. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/registry.json to get the sourcePath for this skill.

    • If sourcePath exists and is not "scaffolded":
      • Compute current hash (cross-platform): (sha256sum "<sourcePath>" 2>/dev/null || shasum -a 256 "<sourcePath>" 2>/dev/null || certutil -hashfile "<sourcePath>" SHA256 2>/dev/null | head -2 | tail -1) | cut -d' ' -f1
      • Compare to stored hash
      • If different: the original skill has been updated since conversion.
        • Show the user: "The original skill at has changed since this pipeline was created. The converted pipeline may be outdated."
        • Ask the user: "Would you like to reconvert the skill to pick up the changes? (This will update the pipeline while preserving your failure-log.md)"
        • If user agrees: run the reconversion (read the updated original, reclassify sections, rewrite pipeline files, update hash, preserve failure-log.md)
        • If user declines: proceed with the existing pipeline as-is
    • If sourcePath no longer exists: warn "Original skill file no longer exists at . Pipeline may be orphaned."
  3. Load the pipeline: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/converted/$ARGUMENTS/SKILL.md and follow its instructions exactly -- execute the gated pipeline stage by stage (Scope, Plan, Build, Check, Deliver).

  4. Read the failure log first: Before starting the pipeline, read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/converted/$ARGUMENTS/failure-log.md and the project-level failure-log.md if it exists. Every pattern is a mandatory constraint.

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 · 28 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 155f9fd0f968

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skill-use is a command published in the GitHub repository stevesolun/micro-skills (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 543 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.