skill-usage

Instructions for finding, loading, and using skills while completing SkillBench tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for discovering available skills, loading them, and using them during benchmark tasks.
Why use it?
It helps an agent choose the relevant instructions and apply them correctly instead of working without needed guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a-evo-lab/a-evolve/skill-usage
Any agent
npx skills add A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve --skill skill-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 438 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00020 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash f689f1957925, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-usage 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 3d 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.

seed_workspaces/skillbench/skills/skill-usage/SKILL.md · 51 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 51 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A f689f1957925

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve (769 stars, last pushed 11d ago), with no licence file. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 438 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

ground-claim

Grounds capability claims with file-read evidence. Default mode answers meta-capability questions ('what does X enable') with path:line citations. Pass mode: runtime-wiring with a claims list to trace actual runtime execution paths — call sites, DI registration, middleware — and get CONFIRMED/UNVERIFIED/REFUTED…

griffinwork40/agent-afk · 87 tokens

wikiskill-proposer

Propose skills from wiki patterns and traces (WikiSkill).

ashutoshsinghpr7/wikiskill · 18 tokens

contract

Reference convention for sub-agent I/O schemas. Loaded by orchestrator skills via /contract and into agents via the skills: field.

griffinwork40/agent-afk · 29 tokens

parallelize

When finished creating the plan in plan mode, run /parallelize so Claude dispatches one planning agent to transform the current approach into a plan to orchestrate waves of parallel sub-agents.

griffinwork40/agent-afk · 41 tokens

skill-creator

Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, update or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.

ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill · 63 tokens

mcp-builder

Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill · 61 tokens