skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,453 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating reusable Claude Code skills. It describes how to organise skill instructions so basic information loads first and detailed material is used only when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps gather requirements, inspect existing project patterns, check for overlapping built-in capabilities, and create or improve a skill.
Why use it?
It helps keep skills focused, easier to maintain, and less likely to burden every coding session with unnecessary instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ac plugin — 6 skills, 9 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 9 commands, 2 hooks.

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin/skill-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin/skill-creator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,453 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 $0.00033 $0.01453
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00727
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00145

Measured 3d ago against content hash d54bed2cf1dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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 3d 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/ac/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create high-quality Claude Code skills following progressive disclosure — metadata always loaded, SKILL.md body on trigger, references on demand.

Core Process

1. Interview

Gather requirements through focused questions. Limit to 3-4 AskUserQuestion calls maximum:

  1. What should this skill enable?
  2. When should it trigger? (user phrases, file patterns, contexts)
  3. What tools does it need? (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Agent, etc.)
  4. Where should it run? (Skills loaded into the main session inherit the user's chosen model. Only specify a model when the skill ships an agent with its own override.)

Skip questions where the answer is obvious from context.

2. Explore Existing Patterns

Use Glob + Read directly to find existing conventions in the target project:

  • Glob **/skills/**/SKILL.md to list defined skills, read 2-3 closest matches
  • Sample the file structure and naming conventions via ls
  • Detect the technology stack from manifest files (package.json, composer.json, pubspec.yaml)

3. Dedup Audit

Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../prompt-writer/references/cc-dedup-guide.md before drafting. Check what CC already provides natively — the skill body must not repeat general concepts the model already knows. Cut anything CC handles by default.

4. Draft Skill

Follow progressive disclosure. SKILL.md body ≤500 lines. Move detail to references/. Read references/skill-patterns.md for description patterns, invocation control, string substitutions, and directory structure before writing.

Key decisions at this stage:

  • Which description pattern fits? (A/B/C/D — see skill-patterns.md)
  • user-invocable: false? disable-model-invocation: true? (see Invocation Control Matrix)
  • context: fork if the skill is self-contained and parallelizable?
  • paths: if the skill activates only for specific file types?

5. Wire References

CC does NOT auto-load references/ files. The model never sees them unless SKILL.md points to them explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 136 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A d54bed2cf1dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,453 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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