fork-and-publish-skill

fork-and-publish-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from astra-sh/qvr. It costs 139 tokens per session (1,561 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for editing an installed agent skill, then publishing it back to its original repository or releasing it as a fork you own.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to customize a project-installed skill, publish changes upstream, fork a skill to your repository, or release updated versions.
Why use it?
It keeps skill changes in a repeatable edit-and-release cycle instead of leaving you with an untracked local copy. It also supports versioned releases as you refine the skill.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to customize a project-installed skill, publish changes upstream, fork a skill to your repository, or release updated versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/astra-sh/qvr/fork-and-publish-skill
View source ↗ astra-sh/qvr
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 astra-sh/qvr --skill fork-and-publish-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/astra-sh/qvr

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,561 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 $0.00139 $0.01561
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00156

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1cbd3e489df1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fork-and-publish-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 11d 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.

skills/fork-and-publish-skill/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fork and publish a skill with qvr

qvr lets you take an installed skill, eject it into your project to edit directly, then publish the result — either back to its origin or to a brand new fork you own — cutting tagged releases as you go. After each publish the lock entry flips back to consume mode, so you can iterate: edit → publish v0.2.0 → edit → publish v0.3.0. This skill drives that loop.

When to use this

  • The user wants to tweak a skill's content and keep the change.
  • They want to publish a skill back upstream, or fork it to a repo they control.
  • They want to cut tagged releases and iterate version by version.

For installing/discovering skills use onboard-skills; for verifying provenance of what you publish use verify-skill-supply-chain.

Prerequisites

  • The skill must be installed in a project (not only --global). Editing a global skill in place would mutate a copy every project shares, so it's not supported. To change a global skill: qvr add <skill> into a project, edit and publish there, then re-add the published version with --global.
  • A clean-ish working state helps; publish refuses a dirty eject dir unless you pass --auto-commit.

Workflow

1. Eject the skill for editing

qvr edit promotes the symlinked skill into a real directory under the canonical agent target (the alphabetical-first installed target — e.g. .claude/skills/<name>/ or .cursor/rules/<name>/, depending on what you installed into); any other installed target dirs become relative symlinks to it. The lock entry gains mode = 'edit'.

qvr edit my-skill
qvr edit my-skill --author "Jane Dev" --email [email protected]   # initial-commit identity

It's idempotent — running it again after the first eject is a no-op.

2. Make and review changes

Edit the files in the ejected skill directory (the canonical agent target), then review:

qvr diff my-skill           # git diff in the skill worktree
qvr diff my-skill --stat
qvr status my-skill         # dirty state + git ahead/behind

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 11d ago First seen · 152 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 1cbd3e489df1

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fork-and-publish-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository astra-sh/qvr (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 1,561 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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