howto-section-generator

howto-section-generator is a skill for Claude Code from ariadoss/superskills. It costs 194 tokens per session (3,061 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of howto-section-generator, MIT.

A generator for an in-page HowTo section: ordered steps that show readers how to complete a task. It can also add HowTo structured data, which helps search engines understand the steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create quick starts, walkthroughs, tutorials, or numbered instruction blocks inside articles, documentation, tools, or landing pages.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent format for step-by-step instructions and distinguishes them from FAQ sections, which answer questions rather than describe a sequence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superskills plugin — 197 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create quick starts, walkthroughs, tutorials, or numbered instruction blocks inside articles, documentation, tools, or landing pages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ariadoss/superskills/howto-section
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 ariadoss/superskills --skill howto-section
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariadoss/superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 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.

agentmods badge for howto-section-generator

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 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,061 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00194 $0.03061
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01530
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00612
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00306

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2ff66f4986d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

howto-section-generator 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to howto-section-generator — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

marketing-skills/components/content/howto-section/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Components: HowTo Section

Guides HowTo as an in-page section: a block of ordered steps (and optional HowTo JSON-LD) embedded inside article, documentation, tool, or landing pages. Not a standalone page type—parent page structure and templates come from article-page-generator, docs-page-generator, tools-page-generator, landing-page-generator, etc. Distinct from FAQ (Q&A → FAQPage) and from full article body drafting alone (article-content). schema-markup remains the source for exhaustive Schema.org property rules and type-wide tables; this skill owns section-level placement, copy, HTML, and HowTo-vs-FAQ decisions.

When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1–2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

HowTo Section vs FAQ Section

Dimension HowTo section FAQ section
Intent User follows ordered steps to complete a task User reads Q&A pairs for doubts
Structure Steps (1→2→3), optional tools/time/supplies Question → answer per item
Schema HowTo (Schema.org) FAQPage
UI Often horizontal tabs for steps; or numbered list in flow Often vertical accordion
Skill howto-section-generator (this) faq-page-generator

Do not mark FAQ content as HowTo or vice versa; schema must match visible content.

Placement Within the Parent Page

This section is always part of a larger page. Typical positions:

Location When
After intro (and optional TL;DR / Key Takeaways) Article: context first, then solution = steps
As the main middle of the page Tutorial-heavy article where the HowTo block carries most of the value
After product/tool context Tool or LP: short context → How to use steps → FAQ/CTA

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · 173 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 2ff66f4986d7

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howto-section-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariadoss/superskills (9 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 3,061 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to howto-section-generator, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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