Skill-Madness: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

Skill-Madness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 1,815 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for Skill-Madness, a toolkit containing reusable skills for Claude Code and other AI coding tools, with guidance on installing and synchronising them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to orient yourself in the Skill-Madness repository, learn how its skills are organised, sync skills into Claude Code, and follow the project’s agent-specific contribution guidance.
Why use it?
It gives contributors a shared reference for understanding the repository, finding the authoritative documents, and keeping installed skills aligned with the source files.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is ivy00johns/Skill-Madness's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Skill-Madness 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 Skill-Madness configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. 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/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 5.1 $0.01815 $0.01815
Opus 5 $0.00907 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00363 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00181 $0.00181

Measured today against content hash b9a43457d7ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Skill-Madness 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 today.

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 · 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.

CLAUDE.md

Lost? Start at START-HERE.md — status at a glance + which doc is canonical vs frozen vs archived. Also read AGENTS.md — it contains shared instructions for all AI agents working in this repo.

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What This Is

A multi-agent orchestration toolkit for Claude Code — 74 OSS-publishable skills in skills/. Skills are symlinked to ~/.claude/skills/ for global availability.

The toolkit targets Claude Code as the primary host but the SKILL.md format is platform-agnostic — Claude.ai, Copilot CLI, Codex, and Gemini CLI all consume it. Skills should describe work in terms of capabilities ("read the file", "run the command") rather than Claude-Code-specific tool names where reasonable, so the same skill body works across hosts.

Install / Sync

Use the /sync-skills command to create symlinks from ~/.claude/skills/ back to this repo. This keeps skills always in sync — edits in either location are reflected immediately.

# Via slash command (recommended)
/sync-skills

# Manual: create category symlinks + flattened discovery symlinks
# See skills/workflows/sync-skills/SKILL.md for details

Skill Anatomy

Every skill follows this structure:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md              # YAML frontmatter + markdown instructions (≤5,000 words; warn at 500 lines)
└── references/           # On-demand reference files (unlimited size)

All SKILL.md files use the frontmatter convention defined in skills/meta/skill-writer/references/frontmatter-spec.md. This spec aligns with Anthropic's official Agent Skills standard. Required fields: name (kebab-case; claude-*/anthropic-* prefixes discouraged but allowed as documented exceptions), version (semver, top-level), description (trigger text, ≤1024 chars, no < or > in field values). Optional Anthropic fields: compatibility, license, allowed-tools (hyphen canonical; allowed_tools accepted as alias), metadata. Agent roles also declare owns, composes_with, spawned_by.

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.

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Skill-Madness CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,815 tokens to every session, about $0.0091 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.

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