few-shot-example-gen

few-shot-example-gen is a skill for Claude Code from a5c-ai/babysitter. It costs 16 tokens per session (350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating few-shot examples, which are sample inputs and answers placed in a prompt to show an AI model how to perform a task. It covers selecting, ordering, formatting, and checking those examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve prompts for tasks such as intent classification, retrieve examples dynamically, compare selection methods, and validate example quality.
Why use it?
It helps choose examples that are both relevant and varied instead of relying on a fixed, poorly representative set. It also accounts for edge cases and limits on prompt length.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to improve prompts for tasks such as intent classification, retrieve examples dynamically, compare selection methods, and validate example quality.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen
About the project

Babysitter is a workflow engine for AI coding agents that enforces predefined steps, quality checks, human approvals, and decision records. It is used to coordinate complex, repeatable agent workflows across supported coding tools. The catalogue contains skills, agents, instructions, settings, a plugin, and an MCP integration for its workflow.

a5c-ai/babysitter · 1,783 stars · on GitHub · a5c.ai

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 a5c-ai/babysitter --skill few-shot-example-gen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

Made for: Claude Code.

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 few-shot-example-gen

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for few-shot-example-gen

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/few-shot-example-gen.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00016 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured 4d ago against content hash ca54685a69d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

few-shot-example-gen 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 4d 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.

library/specializations/ai-agents-conversational/skills/few-shot-example-gen/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Few-Shot Example Generation Skill

Capabilities

  • Generate diverse few-shot examples
  • Implement example selection strategies
  • Optimize example ordering for performance
  • Create dynamic example retrieval
  • Design example formats for specific tasks
  • Implement example quality validation

Target Processes

  • prompt-engineering-workflow
  • intent-classification-system

Implementation Details

Example Selection Strategies

  1. Semantic Similarity: Select similar examples
  2. MMR Selection: Diverse example selection
  3. N-Gram Overlap: Lexical similarity
  4. Random Sampling: Baseline selection
  5. Length-Based: Control example sizes

Configuration Options

  • Number of examples
  • Selection algorithm
  • Example format (input/output structure)
  • Max token limits
  • Example store backend

Best Practices

  • Cover edge cases in examples
  • Balance example diversity
  • Optimize example ordering
  • Test with varied inputs
  • Monitor token usage

Dependencies

  • langchain
  • sentence-transformers (for semantic selection)
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. 4d ago First seen · 66 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A ca54685a69d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

few-shot-example-gen is a skill published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,783 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 350 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 2026-09-05.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

oracle

Designing and evaluating AI/ML systems: prompt engineering, RAG design, LLM application patterns, AI safety, evaluation frameworks, MLOps, cost optimization. Use for AI pipelines or eval harnesses.

simota/agent-skills · 45 tokens

fabric-patterns

Implements a Fabric-like reusable prompt pattern system. Allows storing, retrieving, and composing prompt patterns for consistent AI interactions.

strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency · 28 tokens

prompt-library

Maintain a structured, versioned library of the prompts and behavioral templates used by agents in this repository. Inspired by CL4R1T4S's approach of collecting and publishing AI system prompts for community benefit.

strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency · 0 tokens

hybrid-reasoning

Hybrid AI combining deterministic rule engines with LLM reasoning for efficient, auditable, and reliable decision-making.

strikersam/autonomous-ai-agency · 27 tokens

llm-structured-output

Get reliable JSON, enums, and typed objects from LLMs using responseformat, tooluse, and schema-constrained decoding across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs.

hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills · 42 tokens

extended-thinking

Use Claude's extended thinking (reasoning) mode effectively — budget tokens, interleaved thinking with tool use, when it helps, when it wastes tokens, and how to inspect the thinking trace. Use this skill when building reasoning-heavy features (math, code generation, multi-step planning), debugging why a model is…

latestaiagents/agent-skills · 101 tokens