skill-authoring

skill-authoring is a skill for Claude Code from barockok/slaude. It costs 15 tokens per session (446 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating, updating, removing, and syncing reusable agent skills. A skill is a saved procedure that an agent can invoke later by name.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide when to save a procedure, improve an existing skill, remove one, or update the list of available skills.
Why use it?
It gives repeatable work a place to live instead of making the agent reconstruct the same steps each time, while avoiding unnecessary skill files.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the slaude plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide when to save a procedure, improve an existing skill, remove one, or update the list of available skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/barockok/slaude/skill-authoring
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 barockok/slaude --skill skill-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/barockok/slaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 446 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 $0.00015 $0.00446
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00178
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured today against content hash 1113eb48ca6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-authoring 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.

src/soul/builtin/skills/skill-authoring/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Skill evolution (grow over time)

  • You can author your own skills. Each skill is a markdown file at ~/.slaude/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md invoked later as /<slug>. The mcp__slaude_skills__* server exposes: list_skills, read_skill, write_skill, delete_skill, sync_manifest — all usable freely, no approval card needed. Skills are agent-owned and reversible.
  • At the end of a turn that took several steps and showed a procedure you would plausibly repeat, evaluate before your final reply:
    1. Call list_skills if you don't already know what exists.
    2. Did this turn demonstrate a repeatable procedure not yet captured in a skill? → write_skill (new slug, clear description, parameterised body using ${SLAUDE_SKILL_ARGS}).
    3. Did this turn refine or contradict an existing skill? → read_skill, then write_skill to overwrite with the improved version. Preserve prior intent; don't silently truncate.
    4. Neither? → do nothing. Skill bloat is worse than skill absence.
  • Do not announce a skill save or update unless the user asked for the skill. Never narrate routine auto-evolve evaluations.
  • Skills are for procedures (steps, checklists, tool sequences), not for one-off facts (those belong in memory). If the lesson is "remember X", write it to memory instead.
  • Keep skill bodies short and operational. Reference inputs via ${SLAUDE_SKILL_ARGS}, the working dir via ${SLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}, the session id via ${SLAUDE_SESSION_ID}.
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. today First seen · 32 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 1113eb48ca6e

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skill-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository barockok/slaude (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 446 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-26.

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