example-skill

A minimal example of the AG3NT skill format: a folder with instructions, optional scripts, and optional reference files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when learning how skills work, inspecting the SKILL.md contract, or creating a basic example skill.
Why use it?
It shows the required metadata and structure for defining a skill without adding a full production workflow.

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/ap3x-dev/ag3nt/example-skill
Any agent
npx skills add AP3X-Dev/AG3NT --skill example-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AP3X-Dev/AG3NT

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00021 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2f9e169969e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

example-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/example-skill/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

Example Skill

This skill demonstrates the AG3NT skill contract. Use it when the user asks about how skills work or wants to see an example.

When to Use

  • User asks "how do skills work?"
  • User wants to understand the SKILL.md format
  • User asks for an example skill

Skill Contract

Every AG3NT skill follows this structure:

skill-name/              # Folder name = canonical skill ID
├── SKILL.md             # Required: YAML frontmatter + markdown instructions
├── scripts/             # Optional: executable scripts
│   └── run.sh           # Entrypoint scripts referenced in frontmatter
└── references/          # Optional: supporting docs, configs, examples
    └── notes.md

YAML Frontmatter Fields

Required:

  • name: Must match folder name (max 64 chars, lowercase alphanumeric + hyphens)
  • description: What the skill does (max 1024 chars)

Optional (Agent Skills spec):

  • license: License name (e.g., "MIT", "Apache-2.0")
  • compatibility: Environment requirements
  • metadata: Arbitrary key-value map
  • allowed-tools: Space-delimited list of pre-approved tools

AG3NT Extensions:

  • version: Semantic version (e.g., "1.0.0")
  • tags: Array of categorization tags
  • triggers: Keywords/phrases that activate this skill
  • entrypoints: Named scripts with descriptions
  • required_permissions: Permissions needed for approval flow

Running the Example Script

This skill includes an example entrypoint. To run it:

./scripts/run.sh

The script will print a confirmation message.

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 75 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 2f9e169969e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

example-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository AP3X-Dev/AG3NT (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 511 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 2026-08-31.