skill-developer

A guide for creating and maintaining Claude Code skills, which are reusable instructions that an AI coding assistant can activate for specific tasks. It covers their structure, activation rules, hooks, and documentation practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or edit skills, configure skill-rules.json, define trigger patterns, work with hooks, investigate activation problems, and apply progressive disclosure.
Why use it?
It helps keep skills consistent and makes them activate at the right time. It also clarifies how detailed task guidance fits alongside project-wide instructions.

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/ai-debugger-inc/aidb/skill-developer
Any agent
npx skills add ai-debugger-inc/aidb --skill skill-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-debugger-inc/aidb

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,934 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 $0.00091 $0.02934
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01467
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00587
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00293

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5306d41162c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-developer 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/skill-developer/SKILL.md · 404 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 404 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Developer Guide

Purpose

Comprehensive guide for creating and managing skills in Claude Code with auto-activation system, following Anthropic's official best practices including the 500-line rule and progressive disclosure pattern.

When to Use This Skill

Automatically activates when you mention:

  • Creating or adding skills
  • Modifying skill triggers or rules
  • Understanding how skill activation works
  • Debugging skill activation issues
  • Working with skill-rules.json
  • Hook system mechanics
  • Claude Code best practices
  • Progressive disclosure
  • YAML frontmatter
  • 500-line rule

When building skills, reference:

  • testing-strategy - Skills should be tested with real scenarios before extensive documentation
  • code-reuse-enforcement - Skills should reference existing patterns/utilities from the codebase

Relationship to CLAUDE.md

Division of Responsibilities:

  • CLAUDE.md: Global project context, high-level architecture, universal style rules
  • Skills: Domain-specific detailed guidance, patterns, procedures (triggered by context)
  • skill-developer: Meta-skill that maintains the skills system and explains its relationship to CLAUDE.md

When to Update:

  • Global style rules (numpy docstrings, no emojis, use venv) → Update CLAUDE.md
  • Domain patterns/practices (test patterns, adapter design) → Update relevant skill
  • Skill system mechanics (triggers, hooks, 500-line rule) → Update skill-developer

Integration:

  • CLAUDE.md references skills for detailed guidance (1-line pointers)
  • Skills don't reference CLAUDE.md (avoid circular dependencies)
  • skill-developer explains the complete hierarchy (this section)

Progressive Disclosure Hierarchy:

CLAUDE.md (Global Context)
    ↓ references
Skills (Domain Guidance)
    ↓ maintained by
skill-developer (Meta-Skill)

System Overview

The skills system uses a two-tier architecture (meta-skills vs domain skills) with automatic injection to seamlessly provide domain-specific context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 404 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 · 404 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 5306d41162c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-debugger-inc/aidb (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,934 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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