create-skill

create-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abdullahkhawer/devops-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (567 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided workflow for creating a new SKILL.md file, which gives an AI coding agent instructions for handling a specific task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather requirements, choose a skill name and location, and create the initial skill file for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or another agent.
Why use it?
It helps turn a task description into a structured, reusable skill without having to design the file format and setup yourself.

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/abdullahkhawer/devops-skills/create-skill
Any agent
npx skills add abdullahkhawer/devops-skills --skill create-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abdullahkhawer/devops-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00022 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00057

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4ef2824b851a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-skill 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.

skills/create-skill/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Skill

Run this skill when asked to create a new skill from a conversation or description of a task.

Step 1 — Gather requirements

Ask the user only these two questions:

1. What specific task or problem do you want this skill to solve?
2. What are the specific instructions and guidelines for this task?

Wait for the user's answers before proceeding.


Step 2 — Determine skill name and location

Derive a short, lowercase, hyphenated skill name from the task description (e.g. deploy-lambda, check-postgres-health).

Ask the user which AI agent they are using, then use the corresponding path:

Agent Skill path
Claude Code .claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md
GitHub Copilot .github/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md
Other skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md

Create the directory if it does not exist:

mkdir -p <path-to-skill-dir>

Step 3 — Write the SKILL.md file

Use the template below, filling in all <...> placeholders based on the user's answers.

---
name: <skill-name>
description: <One-liner description of what this skill does.>
---

# <Skill Title>

Run this skill when asked to <task statement>.

## Step 1 — <First step title>

<Instructions for the first step.>

## Step 2 — <Second step title>

<Instructions for the second step.>

...

## Rules

- <Rule 1>
- <Rule 2>

Guidelines for writing the skill

  • Each step should have a clear title and concrete instructions or commands.
  • Include bash commands in fenced code blocks where relevant.
  • Rules section must cover safety constraints, error handling, and edge cases.
  • Keep the skill focused — one skill, one workflow.
  • Do not include secrets, credentials, or hardcoded environment-specific values.

Step 4 — Confirm with the user

After writing the file, show the user the generated SKILL.md content and the path where it was saved. Ask if any adjustments are needed.


Rules

  • Always place the skill in the correct path for the user's AI agent (see Step 2 table).
  • The skill name must be lowercase and hyphenated.
  • Never include credentials, API tokens, or secrets in the generated skill.
  • If the user's description is too vague to produce actionable steps, ask clarifying questions before writing the file.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 4d ago First seen · 95 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 4ef2824b851a

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create-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository abdullahkhawer/devops-skills (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 567 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 2026-08-31.

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