create-skill-autoresearch

create-skill-autoresearch is a skill for Claude Code from a-tokyo/agent-skills. It costs 118 tokens per session (6,166 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A factory for creating agent skills through interviews, research, drafting, repeated testing, and independent review. An agent skill is a set of instructions that guides an AI agent through a particular kind of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create new skills, define their goals and quality standards, research the relevant field, improve their instructions through testing, and verify the final result.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to turn an idea into a tested skill instead of relying on a single draft. Separate builders and reviewers help find weaknesses before the skill is used.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create new skills, define their goals and quality standards, research the relevant field, improve their instructions through testing, and verify the final result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a-tokyo/agent-skills/create-skill-autoresearch
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 a-tokyo/agent-skills --skill create-skill-autoresearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-tokyo/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin create-skill-autoresearch/plugin install create-skill-autoresearch after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,166 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00118 $0.06166
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.03083
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00617

Measured 11d ago against content hash 61cfb028f507, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-skill-autoresearch scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

and the test case input as the user message. Use `curl` to an OpenAI-compatible
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/create-skill-autoresearch/SKILL.md · 460 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 460 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Skill via Autoresearch Factory

A factory for forging production-grade agent skills through gold-standard-driven autoresearch, multi-agent verification, and structured consensus.

The factory orchestrates 4 agent roles through 5 phases:

Phase What Happens Agent Role
1. Interview Discover purpose, gold standards, scope ORCHESTRATOR
2. Research Study domain materials, build dossier, propose rubric RESEARCHER (N parallel)
3. Draft Design structure, generate SKILL.md, measure baseline BUILDER
4. Autoresearch Iterate skill against gold standards (LLM-as-judge, or an objective real-world metric for procedural skills — see 3.4) BUILDER + autoresearch skill
5. Verify Premortem, panel scoring, consensus, ship/iterate PANEL (3 subagents)

Key constraint: BUILDER and PANEL never share context. Panel receives only the skill output, gold standards, and rubric -- no bias from the building process.

Relation to create-skill

This factory extends the official single-pass skill creators (Anthropic's Skills best-practices and skill-creator; Cursor's create-skill) rather than replacing them. It adds what a one-shot generator cannot: a research dossier, gold-standard benchmarking, an autonomous improvement loop, and independent multi-agent verification. The skills it produces follow the same official conventions -- see references/skill-authoring-best-practices.md.

Companion skills

The factory orchestrates these sibling skills at runtime: autoresearch (Phase 4 improvement loop), premortem (Phase 5 risk pass), and handoff (cross-session continuity); the Phase 5 panel/consensus design draws on llm-council. In this harness they are vendored under .agents/skills/. If you install this skill standalone, install those alongside it. The factory's craft layer (references/skill-craft-principles.md) is distilled from writing-great-skills (mattpocock/skills, MIT), which the harness vendors under .agents/skills/. Phase 5 will delegate to tribunal when it is installed (see 5.2).

Read the full file on GitHub · 460 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 460 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A 61cfb028f507

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create-skill-autoresearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository a-tokyo/agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 6,166 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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