authoring-skills

authoring-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ai-creed/ai-shakespii. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,524 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for creating a new agent skill: a set of instructions that teaches an agent how to handle a specific job.

In plain words
What is it for?
It interviews the author, drafts a SKILL.md file, reviews it against a checklist, refines it, and defines examples and situations that should trigger it.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea or repeated process into tested instructions instead of leaving the workflow unclear or incomplete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It interviews the author, drafts a SKILL.md file, reviews it against a checklist, refines it, and defines examples and situations that should trigger it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-creed/ai-shakespii/authoring-skills
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 ai-creed/ai-shakespii --skill authoring-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-creed/ai-shakespii

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,524 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.
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 $0.00058 $0.01524
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00762
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 25d2b8025e80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

authoring-skills 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 12d 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/authoring-skills/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

authoring-skills

Intent

Turn a human's idea into a finished Agent Skill through a structured loop: interview the human for the raw material, draft against the anatomy contract, critique with a rubric of qualities no linter can check, and refine until the harness — not taste — says the skill works. The using-shakespii skill teaches how to drive the CLI; this skill decides what the new skill should say.

Inputs

  • The idea: a problem statement, requirement, or repeated workflow the human wants captured as a skill.
  • A writable parent directory for the new skill.
  • Optional: raw material the human already has — notes, transcripts, a real worked example, memory excerpts.

Preconditions

  • The shakespii CLI resolves (shakespii --version succeeds); setup lives in the using-shakespii skill's Preconditions.
  • The using-shakespii skill is available — every CLI mechanic here (fix loop, eval runs, trigger measurement) delegates to it.
  • A human is reachable for the interview, or the task prompt already supplies and approves the interview's answers.

Procedure

Phase 1 — Interview. Ask one question at a time, multiple-choice where the options are enumerable, until every anatomy section has raw material:

  1. Intent: what problem, for whom, and what does a successful use look like?
  2. Triggers: at least five real requests that should fire the skill, and at least three lookalikes that must not.
  3. Inputs and preconditions: what the skill consumes; binaries, paths, and environment it assumes.
  4. Procedure: walk one real occurrence of the workflow end to end.
  5. Example: one real input with its real output — not an invented pair.
  6. Failure modes: what has gone wrong when this was done by hand.

The interview ends when you can state the kebab-case name, the purpose, and the trigger list back and the human confirms them — or when the task prompt already supplied and approved all three. In a non-interactive run where the prompt leaves questions open, ask them all in one batch as your final output instead of guessing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 12d ago First seen · 151 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 25d2b8025e80

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authoring-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-creed/ai-shakespii (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,524 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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