skill-development

skill-development is a skill for Claude Code from basher83/lunar-claude. It costs 25 tokens per session (5,883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for creating skills, which are reusable instruction packages that give Claude specialized knowledge, workflows, tool guidance, or supporting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing skills for repeated tasks, external tools, company rules, file formats, and multi-step procedures.
Why use it?
It helps keep domain-specific instructions organized and concise so they can be loaded when needed without filling the entire conversation context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the plugin-dev plugin — 7 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for designing skills for repeated tasks, external tools, company rules…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/basher83/lunar-claude/skill-development
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 basher83/lunar-claude --skill skill-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basher83/lunar-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install plugin-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents.

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 skill-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/basher83/lunar-claude/skill-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/basher83/lunar-claude/skill-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/basher83/lunar-claude/skill-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/basher83/lunar-claude/skill-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,883 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 $0.00025 $0.05883
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.02942
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00588

Measured 3d ago against content hash b74736889c0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-development 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.

plugins/meta/plugin-dev/skills/skill-development/SKILL.md · 775 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 775 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Development for Claude Code Plugins

Reference: See agent-skills-spec.md for the official specification.

This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills for Claude Code plugins.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.

What Skills Provide

  1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
  2. Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
  3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
  4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks

Core Principles

Concise is Key

The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else Claude needs: system prompt, conversation history, other skills' metadata, and the actual user request.

Default assumption: Claude is already very smart. Only add context Claude doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does Claude really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?"

Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.

Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom

Match the level of specificity to the task's fragility and variability:

  • High freedom (text-based instructions): Use when multiple approaches are valid, decisions depend on context, or heuristics guide the approach.
  • Medium freedom (pseudocode or scripts with parameters): Use when a preferred pattern exists, some variation is acceptable, or configuration affects behavior.
  • Low freedom (specific scripts, few parameters): Use when operations are fragile and error-prone, consistency is critical, or a specific sequence must be followed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 775 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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 · 775 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b74736889c0f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository basher83/lunar-claude (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 5,883 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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