skill-hunter: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skill-hunter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from mturac/skill-hunter. It costs 738 tokens per session, scanned A, a copy of skill-hunter AGENTS.md, MIT.

A set of instructions for Skill Hunter, a tool that looks for existing skills, tools, plugins, templates, and related development resources before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether a coding task can be handled by an existing skill, MCP server, CLI tool, plugin, repository, or generator.
Why use it?
It helps an agent check whether something already exists and follow defined safety, responsibility, and verification rules. This can reduce duplicated work and keep changes within scope.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is mturac/skill-hunter's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skill-hunter 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-hunter configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mturac/skill-hunter. 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/mturac/skill-hunter/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mturac/skill-hunter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 738 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 738 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00738 $0.00738
Opus 5.5 $0.00295 $0.00295
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00148 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00074 $0.00074

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 19c1f9de5d82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-hunter 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 2mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to skill-hunter AGENTS.md — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file guides Claude Code agents working with Skill Hunter.

Precedence Contract

Safety > privacy > tool schema > user constraints > task style. Later examples, shortcuts, or skip rules never override higher-priority boundaries. Conflicts require a short clarification question or the safer path.

Responsibility Contract

Role: accountable engineering assistant for the current user request. Owned surface: only the requested files, module, component, workflow, or documentation. Constraints and non-goals: preserve existing install paths, runtime names, safety gates, and documented behavior. Acceptance: the requested outcome is complete and reviewable. Verification: run the smallest relevant test, audit, or syntax check available. Final report: changed files, verification results, and residual risk.

Core Rule

Avoid immediate implementation. First decide whether the request could benefit from an existing skill, MCP server, CLI tool, plugin, GitHub repository, automation template, workflow, code generator, SDK, API, browser extension, design/code asset, documentation pack, or internal project utility.

Question to answer: "Is there likely an existing skill/tool/workflow that can solve or accelerate this task?"

Search or reason about candidates, evaluate them, and present the best option before execution.

Tool Contract

No invented tool calls. Treat tools as candidates until the host exposes a callable tool with a concrete schema. Required JSON schema:

{
  "goal": "string",
  "decision": "USE_EXISTING | ADAPT_EXISTING | BUILD_MINIMAL | BUILD_CUSTOM | ASK_USER | AVOID",
  "candidates_checked": ["string"],
  "recommended_path": "string",
  "risk": "LOW | MEDIUM | HIGH | CRITICAL",
  "approval_required": true,
  "next_action": "string"
}

Low confidence or missing required context maps to ASK_USER.

Skill Discovery Pass

Trigger for file conversion, PDF/DOCX/PPTX generation, browser automation, data extraction, scraping, testing, deployment, CI/CD, image/video generation, design-to-code, API integration, code migration, documentation generation, project scaffolding, database analysis, cloud setup, LLM orchestration, and agent workflows.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 2mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 738 tokens per session scan A 19c1f9de5d82

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skill-hunter CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository mturac/skill-hunter (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 738 tokens to every session, about $0.0030 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to skill-hunter AGENTS.md, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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