claude-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 6,374 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Claude skills: reusable packages of instructions, scripts, and resources that give an AI agent specialized knowledge for a task. They also describe how agents should discover and load those skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide Claude when working on the claude-skills project, spawning agents, explaining skills, or handling skill discovery and reuse.
Why use it?
A general-purpose coding agent may not know the project’s specialized procedures. These instructions help it use the right skills and load them before starting work.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is vinnie357/claude-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-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 claude-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vinnie357/claude-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/vinnie357/claude-skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

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 $0.06374 $0.06374
Opus 5 $0.03187 $0.03187
Sonnet 5 $0.01275 $0.01275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00637 $0.00637

Measured 9d ago against content hash bdaf8431f1fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-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 9d 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 · 719 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 719 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@plugins/tools/claude-code/templates/CLAUDE.md When Spawning agents allways instruct them to load skills for their tasks as the frist step.

Claude Skills Project

This repository contains modular, self-contained skills that extend Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools.

What Are Agent Skills?

Agent skills are organized directories containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can dynamically discover and load. They enable a single general-purpose agent to gain domain-specific expertise without requiring separate custom agents for each use case.

Skills function as composable, reusable packages that transform Claude into a domain-specific agent equipped with procedural knowledge and specialized capabilities.

Why Skills Matter

General-purpose AI agents like Claude Code need domain-specific expertise to handle real-world work effectively. Rather than building separate custom agents for each use case, skills provide:

  • Modularity: Self-contained packages that can be mixed and matched
  • Reusability: Share and distribute expertise across projects and teams
  • Progressive Disclosure: Load context only when needed, keeping interactions efficient
  • Specialization: Deep domain knowledge without sacrificing generality

How Skills Work

Skills operate on a principle of progressive disclosure across multiple levels:

Level 1: Discovery

Agent system prompts include only skill names and descriptions, allowing Claude to decide when each skill is relevant based on the task at hand.

Level 2: Activation

When Claude determines a skill applies, it loads the full SKILL.md file into context, gaining access to the complete procedural knowledge and guidelines.

Level 3+: Deep Context

Additional bundled files (like references, forms, or documentation) load only when needed for specific scenarios, keeping token usage efficient.

This tiered approach maintains efficient context windows while supporting potentially unbounded skill complexity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 719 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. 9d ago First seen · 719 lines · 6,374 tokens per session scan A bdaf8431f1fe

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claude-skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,374 tokens to every session, about $0.0319 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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