evaluate-skill

evaluate-skill is a skill for Claude Code from ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for a local Claude Code skill directory or SKILL.md file. It examines the instructions, their metadata, links, trigger wording, size, and token use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a skill, investigate its evaluation score, check trigger phrases and links, or measure its actual instruction-token usage.
Why use it?
It identifies why a skill may be too large, fail to activate, contain broken references, or use more context than expected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cc-plugin-eval plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a skill, investigate its evaluation score, check trigger phrases and links, or measure its actual instruction-token usage.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install cc-plugin-eval

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-plugin-eval, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,303 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 $0.00075 $0.01303
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00651
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00130

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8edd2afb6802, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evaluate-skill 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 7d 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.

plugins/cc-plugin-eval/skills/evaluate-skill/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evaluate Skill

Use this skill when the target is a local skill directory or a SKILL.md file. cc-plugin-eval handles the structural and budget signals deterministically without an LLM. If the user wants an LLM-graded rubric or a rewrite pass, hand off to the skill-creator skill (Anthropic's skill-creator@claude-plugins-official) - that skill specializes in single-skill grading and rewrites, while cc-plugin-eval focuses on structural and budget signals.

The runnable commands below invoke the shipped script through the plugin root, which works in any checkout: node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cc-plugin-eval.js" <command> <args>. Inline mentions of cc-plugin-eval <command> are shorthand for that same invocation; the bare cc-plugin-eval alias only exists if you ran npm link in the plugin directory.

Workflow

  1. Treat "Evaluate this skill." as the default entrypoint.
  2. If the user names a skill instead of giving a path, resolve it locally first. Prefer ~/.claude/plugins/cache/<plugin-id>/skills/<skill-name> for installed-plugin skills, then any repo-local skills/<skill-name> directory. If the name is still ambiguous, ask one short clarifying question before running commands.
  3. If the user says the request in natural language first, run cc-plugin-eval start <skill-path> --request "<user request>" --format markdown to show the routed path clearly.
  4. Run cc-plugin-eval analyze <skill-path> --format markdown. The convenience alias cc-plugin-eval evaluate-skill <skill-path> returns the same payload but errors out if the path is not a skill.
  5. Review At a Glance, Why It Matters, Fix First, and Recommended Next Step before drilling into details.
  6. Explain which findings are structural (frontmatter validity, file size, broken links), which are budget-related (trigger / invoke / deferred), and which are best-practice (allowed-tools syntax, progressive disclosure).
  7. If the user asks for an "analysis" of the skill, do not stop at the report. Also run cc-plugin-eval init-benchmark <skill-path> and show the setup questions for refining the starter scenarios in .cc-plugin-eval/benchmark.json.
  8. If the user wants real usage numbers, switch to "Measure the real token usage of this skill." and run the benchmark flow.
  9. After observed usage is available, use cc-plugin-eval measurement-plan <skill-path> --observed-usage <usage.jsonl> --format markdown to recommend what to instrument next.
  10. If the user wants a rewrite plan, route to ../improve-skill/SKILL.md. That skill writes a brief and hands it to skill-creator for the actual rewrite.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 7d ago First seen · 63 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 8edd2afb6802

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evaluate-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,303 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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