skill-maker

skill-maker is a skill for Claude Code from adamjali/claude-skills. It costs 170 tokens per session (3,405 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A skill for creating Claude Code skills or slash commands with phased instructions, saved user preferences, checkpoint resumption, and methods for preserving context during compaction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update skills, manage generation checkpoints, save style preferences, and review or resume unfinished skill work.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea into a consistent, resumable skill while keeping important rules and prior decisions from being lost.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the skill-maker plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or update skills, manage generation checkpoints, save style preferences, and review or resume unfinished skill work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adamjali/claude-skills/skill-maker
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 adamjali/claude-skills --skill skill-maker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamjali/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-maker, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,405 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00170 $0.03405
Opus 5 $0.00085 $0.01702
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00681
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00341

Measured 9d ago against content hash d06e07606d01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skill-maker scanned grade B 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/compaction-template.sh, scripts/generate-skill.sh, scripts/validate-skill.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

- **"List my skills"** → `ls ~/.claude/skills/` + structured table with status
plugins/skill-maker/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<execution_context>

  • Auto-load the style guide + compaction patterns at start (via <context> injection above)
  • Auto-execute scaffolding (mkdir + boilerplate writes) — these are reversible
  • ASK before writing the actual SKILL.md body — preview must be approved
  • ASK before deferring to Anthropic skill-creator for eval iteration — only if user opts in
  • Saved Rules: accumulate per-user-style preferences (e.g., "always wants Phase 5.5 deep-clean for stateful skills") in state.md
  • Rolling window: keep last 10 generated-skill entries full, compact older to one-line in archive section </execution_context>
  1. TaskCreate one task per phase (8 phases).
  2. Read state.md if exists; check for IN_PROGRESS marker.
  3. If IN_PROGRESS found → AskUserQuestion:
    • Resume from last checkpoint
    • Start fresh (archive previous as ABORTED)
    • Show full history (abort, let the user review)
  4. Otherwise → record current generation as IN_PROGRESS with checkpoint: INITIALIZED.
  5. Read references/skill-style.md + references/compaction-patterns.md into context (loaded via @ in <context> block above, but verify accessible).

TaskUpdate Phase 0 → completed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 9d ago First seen · 255 lines · 170 tokens per session scan B d06e07606d01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-maker is a skill published in the GitHub repository adamjali/claude-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 3,405 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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