agent-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agent-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from eins78/agent-skills. It costs 2,649 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Claude Code instructions for developing and validating skills in a skills repository. It describes the required SKILL.md and README.md files, optional supporting folders, and the skills command-line validator.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or maintaining skills with instructions, scripts, assets, references, themes, or tests in the specified repository.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a consistent structure and validation process for skills, so required files and documentation are not missed.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is eins78/agent-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agent-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agent-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to eins78/agent-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eins78/agent-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eins78/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 5.1 $0.02649 $0.02649
Opus 5 $0.01324 $0.01324
Sonnet 5 $0.00530 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00265 $0.00265

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3ab9707c036d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-skills CLAUDE.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 6d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Repository

Agent Skills collection for Claude Code, following the agentskills.io spec.

Uses the skills CLI for validation.

Skill Format

Each skill lives in its own directory under skills/ and consists of:

skills/<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md      # The skill itself (frontmatter + instructions)
└── README.md     # Development documentation (REQUIRED)

Skills may also bundle additional directories as needed:

  • scripts/ — executable wrappers referenced from SKILL.md via ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/...
  • themes/ / assets/ — stylesheets, templates, or other static files used by scripts
  • references/ — deep-dive docs loaded on demand, not auto-included
  • tests/ — optional post-install smoke tests (not run by pnpm test; provide a manual command in the skill's README so contributors and post-install users can verify the setup works)

SKILL.md

YAML frontmatter followed by markdown instructions:

---
name: skill-name
description: When to activate and what the skill covers.
globs: ["**/*.ts", "**/*.tsx"]
license: MIT
---

The markdown body contains patterns, rules, and examples that Claude follows when the skill is active.

README.md (required)

Every skill directory must contain a README.md with development documentation:

  • Purpose and scope of the skill
  • Skill tier (publishable/reusable vs project-specific)
  • How the skill was tested and validated
  • Provenance (where patterns originated)
  • Known gaps and planned improvements

Validation

pnpm test        # runs: skills add . --list

This lists all discovered skills and exits non-zero if any skill fails to parse.

Digraph Rendering

If SKILL.md contains ```dot blocks:

  1. Create diagrams/ directory in skill folder
  2. Run .dev/scripts/render-digraphs.sh SKILL.md ./diagrams
  3. Commit both .dot and .png files
  4. Reference images in SKILL.md where helpful

Requires: brew install graphviz

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 6d ago First seen · 246 lines · 2,649 tokens per session scan A 3ab9707c036d

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agent-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository eins78/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,649 tokens to every session, about $0.0132 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.

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