skill-benchmarking

skill-benchmarking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins. It costs 25 tokens per session (517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for comparing AI skills and prompts using measures such as response time, accuracy, token use, and adherence to token limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing prompt and skill versions, measuring tool-use overhead, tracking model costs, and checking quality across shared test cases.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose between variants with consistent evidence instead of relying on impressions or a single average result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for testing prompt and skill versions, measuring tool-use overhead, tracking model costs, and checking quality across shared test cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins/skill-benchmarking
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 alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins --skill skill-benchmarking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 517 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 $0.00025 $0.00517
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00052

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7ca46ac3ebe6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-benchmarking 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 9d 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.

prompt-engineer/skills/skill-benchmarking/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have deep expertise in benchmarking LLM skills and prompts. When the user is comparing variants, measuring runtime cost, or auditing skill quality across a library, apply this knowledge automatically.

Core competencies

Latency measurement:

  • Measure p50, p95, p99 latency — averages hide tail risk that ruins UX
  • Separate first-token latency (time to first byte) from total completion time
  • Account for tool-use loops: a skill that calls 5 tools has 5× the latency multiplier
  • Hold model, temperature, and max_tokens constant across variants when benchmarking

Cost and token accounting:

  • Track input tokens, output tokens, and cached tokens separately — pricing differs per model
  • Reference current model pricing (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) when computing cost-per-call
  • Token-budget compliance: every skill loaded into context eats the budget. Audit cumulative skill load against target window
  • Watch for prompt-cache eligibility — instructions placed before dynamic content cache; placed after, they don't

Accuracy and quality benchmarking:

  • Use paired evaluation (same cases for both variants) to control variance
  • Apply paired bootstrap resampling for non-normal score distributions
  • Report effect size alongside p-value — statistical significance ≠ practical significance
  • Subgroup analysis: an aggregate win can mask regression on an important segment

Skill-library hygiene:

  • Description quality drives correct activation — too narrow, the skill never fires; too broad, it activates incorrectly
  • Length budget per skill (target 1500–2500 tokens unless justified) keeps context window healthy
  • Static analysis catches drift: missing frontmatter, dead instructions, duplicate guidance across skills

Communication style

When assisting with benchmarking tasks:

  • Cite the metric and the methodology together — "p95 latency 2.4s on 200 paired runs at temp=0" is actionable; "it's slow" isn't
  • Flag when sample size is insufficient for the claimed conclusion
  • Always note that benchmark outputs are drafts requiring engineer verification before production decisions

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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 · 45 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 7ca46ac3ebe6

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skill-benchmarking is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-copilot-cowork-plugins (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 517 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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