write-skills

write-skills is a skill for Codex from 6529-Collections/6529seize-frontend. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating and reviewing Codex or OpenAI Agent Skills, including their instructions, trigger descriptions, supporting files, and validation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or improve SKILL.md files, define when a skill should run, organize scripts and references, and test whether it triggers for the right requests.
Why use it?
It helps turn a repeated agent workflow into a focused, reusable skill with clear scope and reliable activation rules.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to write or improve SKILL.md files, define when a skill should run, organize scripts and references, and test whether it triggers for the right requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/6529-collections/6529seize-frontend/write-skills
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 6529-Collections/6529seize-frontend --skill write-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/6529-Collections/6529seize-frontend

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for write-skills

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,542 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 6
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00063 $0.01542
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00771
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00154

Measured 10d ago against content hash 407ca136178d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-skills 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 10d 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.

ops/skills/write-skills/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write Skills

Principles

  • Keep each skill focused on one job. Split broad workflows into separate skills or references.
  • Treat frontmatter as the routing surface. Put all "when to use this skill" guidance in description, because the body is only loaded after the skill triggers.
  • Assume Codex is already capable. Add only procedural knowledge, repo-specific context, examples, scripts, and constraints that materially improve repeatability.
  • Prefer clear instructions over scripts unless deterministic behavior, external tooling, or repeated code would reduce mistakes.
  • Use progressive disclosure: keep SKILL.md lean, put large details in directly linked references/, and keep output templates or reusable files in assets/.
  • Write imperative steps with explicit inputs, outputs, and validation.
  • Test trigger behavior with prompts that should invoke the skill and prompts that should not.

Topics To Cover

When writing or reviewing a skill, decide whether each topic belongs in the skill:

  • Frontmatter and trigger behavior
  • Skill name and folder layout
  • Task scope, anti-scope, and adjacent non-triggers
  • Required inputs and expected outputs
  • Step-by-step workflow
  • Tool, command, or file conventions
  • Scripts, references, and assets
  • Validation and forward-testing
  • Safety constraints, permissions, and destructive-action guardrails
  • Maintenance notes, only when they change future use of the skill

If a topic is not needed for the skill's job, omit it. A short complete skill is better than a broad checklist pasted everywhere.

Workflow

  1. Clarify the target job

    Identify the narrow repeatable task, likely users, concrete prompts, expected outputs, and adjacent prompts that should not trigger the skill. If the job is ambiguous, ask for one or two examples before writing.

  2. Choose name and location

    Use lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens only. Keep the folder name identical to the skill name. In this repo, place repo-local skills under ops/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md unless the user asks for another skill location.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 164 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 407ca136178d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository 6529-Collections/6529seize-frontend (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,542 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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