skills AGENTS.md

skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from chrisbanes/skills. It costs 958 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Repository instructions for maintaining skills: small add-ons that guide an AI coding agent. They cover documentation, tests, authoring checks, and release rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when adding, renaming, removing, documenting, evaluating, or releasing skills in the chrisbanes/skills repository.
Why use it?
They reduce the chance that a new or changed skill is left undocumented, untested, or released with the wrong version.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

About the project

chrisbanes/skills is a collection of coding-agent skills for Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android development, and grounded writing, packaged as a portable agent-plugin repository. It is for developers building Android or Kotlin applications and for coding agents supporting those workflows. The catalogue entries are the repository's skills, instructions, and plugin packaging.

chrisbanes/skills · 1,009 stars · on GitHub

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 instructions/chrisbanes/skills/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisbanes/skills

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 958 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00958 $0.00958
Opus 5 $0.00479 $0.00479
Sonnet 5 $0.00192 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00096 $0.00096

Measured yesterday against content hash a77522c04b3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills AGENTS.md 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.

AGENTS.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Instructions for AI agents (Claude Code, etc.) working in this repo.

When adding, renaming, or removing a skill

  1. Update README.md — keep the "Skills" list in sync. Each entry links to the skill's SKILL.md and summarises what it covers. If you add a skill and don't update the README, the change is incomplete.
  2. Add evaluation coverage — add the new skill to the relevant evaluation suite, with direct, novel, and no-change cases that exercise its expected behavior and restraint. Keep those cases in evals/, with deterministic validation where applicable; runtime SKILL.md files do not carry RED/GREEN scenario sections. A new skill is incomplete without evaluation coverage.
  3. Do not update plugin or skill versions unless explicitly asked. If the user asks for a release/version bump, use the release system below.

Skill authoring checklist

Before considering any skill addition or edit complete, verify:

  1. The frontmatter description starts with Use when and contains concrete trigger conditions only.
  2. The body states one core principle and gives ordered, imperative steps.
  3. Tables support rather than replace the procedure; failed checks specify the next action, and the procedure has an explicit finish gate.
  4. Examples are minimal and behavior-preserving; exceptions and non-applicable cases are explicit.
  5. The evaluation corpus includes direct, novel, and no-change coverage, including a counterexample against over-application.
  6. README and router integration are updated where applicable, npm run lint passes, and versions remain unchanged unless requested.

Evaluation result documentation

  • Keep the result tables in README.md and evals/README.md synchronized. Each cell shows the latest available result for that skill and metric.
  • Replace superseded values in place. Do not turn either README into a journal of dated runs, targeted rechecks, repair history, or per-run commentary.
  • Keep detailed scorecards, audit decisions, run provenance, and historical evidence in evaluation artifacts and the change record, not in the READMEs.
  • Update only metrics supported by the latest evidence; leave unrelated skill results unchanged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 Changed · +1 lines · +42 tokens per session a77522c04b3e
  2. 5d ago First seen · 64 lines · 916 tokens per session scan A 084b28173664

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skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository chrisbanes/skills (1,009 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 958 tokens to every session, about $0.0048 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.