skill-creator

A skill for creating or editing atomic-agent skills, which are instruction packages that tell an agent how to handle specific tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, rename, or refine skills, write valid SKILL.md front matter, and organize the related YAML and installation files.
Why use it?
It explains the required file format and installation layout, helping prevent skills from being skipped because their metadata or structure is invalid.

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/atomicbot-ai/atomic-agent/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add AtomicBot-ai/atomic-agent --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtomicBot-ai/atomic-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 519 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 $0.00032 $0.00519
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00052

Measured 3d ago against content hash 73109641c46e, 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.

starter-skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

skill-creator

Critical — invalid files are skipped at load

SKILL.md must start with the bytes --- then a newline, YAML mapping, closing --- line, then markdown body.

If the file starts with # Title or prose without that frontmatter block, the runtime drops the skill (parse error); it will not appear in ### skills.

Minimal valid template (copy and edit)

---
name: my-skill-name
description: One line when to load this skill and what it does (English ok).
version: 1.0.0
requires_tools: []
requires_scripts: []
dangerous: false
---

# my-skill-name

Body here. Use real tool names: `skill.view`, `os.http.request`, `browser.search`, …

Rules:

  • name — kebab-case, same string as the parent folder (my-skill-name/SKILL.mdname: my-skill-name).
  • description and version — required non-empty strings.
  • requires_tools / requires_scripts — optional lists (documentation); omit empty keys if you prefer.

Where to write files

Scope Path
Global <stateDir>/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (default ~/.atomic-agent/skills/)
Project <workingDir>/.atomic-agent/skills/<name>/SKILL.md — overrides global on name clash

One folder per skill; single SKILL.md at folder root.

Workflow

  1. Create folder + SKILL.md using the template above (frontmatter first).
  2. Keep description short; put procedures in the body (visible only after skill.view).
  3. Restart the agent / call refreshSkills so the registry rescans disk.
  4. Verify with atomic-agent skill list (shows WARN: lines for broken dirs).

Do not

  • Skip YAML — ever.
  • Put secrets in the file or instruct bypassing approvals / HTTP allowlists.
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 · 63 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 73109641c46e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtomicBot-ai/atomic-agent (2,438 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 519 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 2026-08-30.

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