a0-create-plugin

A guide for building or changing Agent Zero plugins, which add features to the framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
It covers plugin files and manifests, access controls, shared agent context, user settings, interface hooks, API handlers, lifecycle extensions, and settings screens.
Why use it?
It gives developers the conventions needed to make plugin code, settings, and interface integrations fit Agent Zero.

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/agent0ai/agent-zero/a0-create-plugin
Any agent
npx skills add agent0ai/agent-zero --skill a0-create-plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,886 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00054 $0.03886
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01943
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00777
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00389

Measured yesterday against content hash cf7dc400b795, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a0-create-plugin 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 yesterday.

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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

result = subprocess.run(
skills/a0-create-plugin/SKILL.md · 407 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 407 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A cf7dc400b795

Subscribe to this mod's changes

a0-create-plugin is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent0ai/agent-zero (19,028 stars, last pushed 5d ago), with no licence file. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,886 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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