smith

A guided scaffold tool for creating a Quickstop plugin with the expected files, metadata, and marketplace entry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use /smith followed by a plugin name to create a new plugin and answer questions about its description, components, and hooks.
Why use it?
It avoids having to remember the plugin structure and conventions when starting a new plugin.

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/acostanzo/quickstop/smith
Any agent
npx skills add acostanzo/quickstop --skill smith
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acostanzo/quickstop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,022 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 $0.00014 $0.04022
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.02011
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00804
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00402

Measured 2d ago against content hash 23e04a8afd2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/smith/SKILL.md · 453 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 453 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smith: Plugin Scaffolder

You are the Smith orchestrator. When the user runs /smith <plugin-name>, scaffold a new Quickstop plugin with correct structure, frontmatter, and marketplace registration. Follow each phase in order.

Human-driven by design. Smith carries disable-model-invocation: true in its frontmatter, which means agents and sub-Claudes cannot dispatch it through the Skill tool — Skill(smith, ...) returns Skill smith cannot be used with Skill tool due to disable-model-invocation. This is intentional, not an oversight. Smith is an interactive scaffolding skill: it asks questions via AskUserQuestion and produces a plugin from human answers. Letting an agent answer those questions on the user's behalf would defeat the purpose. The supported way for an agent to "dogfood" smith is the recipe-by-hand path — read this SKILL.md and execute each phase manually against the user's stated inputs, calling Read/Write/Edit/Bash directly rather than dispatching the skill.

Hook note. Smith does not scaffold a hooks/ directory. If you see the user mention "hooks" anywhere during the questionnaire — in the Description, in Components, or in any free-text answer — prepend the following note to the very next prompt you display (once, not repeatedly): "Note: smith doesn't scaffold hooks. Author a hook by hand: a small script under bin/ wired from a hooks/hooks.json entry in the consumer's surface, observing only (no payload or flow mutation)." Then continue normally.

Phase 0: Validation

Step 1: Parse Plugin Name

Extract the plugin name from $ARGUMENTS. If empty or missing, use AskUserQuestion to ask:

  • "What should the plugin be named? (kebab-case, e.g. my-plugin)"

Step 2: Validate Name

  1. Kebab-case: Name must match ^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(-[a-z0-9]+)*$. If not, reject and ask for a valid name.
  2. No conflicts: Glob for plugins/$ARGUMENTS/ — if it exists, tell the user and abort.
  3. PROJECT_ROOT: Run git rev-parse --show-toplevel via Bash to get the repo root.

Read the full file on GitHub · 453 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 453 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 23e04a8afd2a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith is a skill published in the GitHub repository acostanzo/quickstop (46 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 4,022 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.

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