Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to autonomous-ai/autonomous-workshop. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/autonomous-ai/autonomous-workshop/main/.claude/skills/build-a-toy/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/autonomous-ai/autonomous-workshopWrote 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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/autonomous-ai/autonomous-workshop/build-a-toy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/autonomous-ai/autonomous-workshop/build-a-toy.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00122 | $0.08764 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.03506 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.01753 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00876 |
Grade A, and why
build-a-toy 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 today.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 589 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Build a toy to its Design Contract
design-a-toy settles what the toy is. This skill owns everything after
that: it builds the toy, checks the build against the contract, and corrects
it until the two agree. The output is one published toy that conforms to its
contract, or a plain report of why no build conformed.
Use the vocabulary in CONTEXT.md: Design Contract, Conformance,
Requirement Scope, Unique Geometry, Component (not "part").
The settled run parameters
Every run this skill starts, whether wish or fix, uses:
| Flag | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
--agent |
claude, on every wish and fix |
The CLI defaults to Codex, whose sandbox failed to start on the owner's build machine, and the agent is frozen for the run, so a wrong one costs a relaunch |
--contract |
always | Seals the Design Contract into the run (ADR 0072). The host refuses to complete the run unless its review carries every one of the contract's requirements, in order, each visibly matching — conformance for requirements is established by the run itself, not by this skill re-deriving coverage from a Manager-written list |
--no-publish |
always, round 0 included | Nothing reaches Factory until it conforms |
--turn-minutes |
360 |
The maximum. The clock is not the limit |
--max-tokens |
100000000 |
This is the real backstop. With 360-minute turns and unlimited resume, a run stops when its tokens run out |
--ref |
every contract reference, every run | The assembly round scores every sealed reference that no current component round already scored (ADR 0072). A description of an image is no substitute for the image |
--guide |
every contract Guide Image (guides[], schema 5), every run, after the --ref images |
Guide Images explain the design to the Manager and the workers and are never compared (ADR 0089); the contract refuses a run that leaves one out |
--print-art |
every contract print art file (print.art, schema 6), every run, after the --guide images |
The art printed on the toy's Print Sheets (ADR 0091), never compared as a likeness target; the contract refuses a run that leaves one out |
--check-motion |
true when the contract has any moving part, on every wish, fix and resume |
workshop resume reselects this option and defaults it to false. Broken God v01 was resumed without it, and its final verification skipped the motion check and shipped with its wings unverified |
--effort, --model |
only if the person passed them | Both are frozen for the run and cannot change on resume, so never raise them yourself |
What ships with it
10 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.
- CONTRACT-FORMAT.md 36 KB
- DETECT.md 8.9 KB
- LEDGER.md 5.7 KB
- scripts/ledger.py 28 KB runs code
- scripts/runpaths.py 2.2 KB runs code
- scripts/snapshot.py 3.7 KB runs code
- scripts/tally.py 6.8 KB runs code
- scripts/tokens.py 3.9 KB runs code
- scripts/watch.sh 1.0 KB runs code
- scripts/wiki_writeback.sh 2.7 KB runs code
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.
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- 1mo ago First seen · 430 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A d3d2a2b6402e
build-a-toy is a skill published in the GitHub repository autonomous-ai/autonomous-workshop (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 8,764 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-25.
build-a-toy compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| build-a-toyautonomous-ai/autonomous-workshop | Skill | 24 | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 122 | Claude Code |
| cocoindex-diagramscocoindex-io/cocoindex | Skill | 12k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 124 | Claude Code, Codex |
| cli-commandComposioHQ/composio | Skill | 31k | yesterday | MIT | A | 76 | Claude Code, Codex |
| dashboard-designmckinsey/vizro | Skill | 3.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 71 | Claude Code |
| dstack-prototypingdstackai/dstack | Skill | 2.3k | yesterday | MPL-2.0 | A | 80 | Claude Code, Codex |
| designing-vizro-layoutsmckinsey/vizro | Skill | 3.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 58 | Claude Code |
| diagram-designvstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents | Skill | 1.1k | 7d ago | MIT | A | 16 | Claude Code, Codex |