basic-skill-template

basic-skill-template is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ai-infra-curriculum/ai-agent-guidebook. It costs 66 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A starter template for defining an agent skill, including what it does and when it should load.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a new skill description with triggers and, when needed, conditions for skipping it.
Why use it?
It provides a basic structure for writing clear skill instructions and avoiding unwanted triggers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when creating a new skill description with triggers and, when needed, conditions for skipping it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-infra-curriculum/ai-agent-guidebook/basic-skill
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-infra-curriculum/ai-agent-guidebook --skill basic-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-infra-curriculum/ai-agent-guidebook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 718 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 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 5.1 $0.00066 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash 841694650895, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

basic-skill-template 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 8d 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.

guides/skills/templates/basic-skill/SKILL.md · 96 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 96 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 841694650895

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basic-skill-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-infra-curriculum/ai-agent-guidebook (9 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 718 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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