skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bcastelino/agent-skills-kit. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,993 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating Agent Skills: folders of instructions and optional resources that teach an AI agent how to handle repeatable tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, structure, validate, package, and distribute skills, including their SKILL.md files and trigger phrases.
Why use it?
It helps turn a repeated process into reusable instructions, so users do not need to explain the same workflow each time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/init_skill.py <skill-name> --path <output-directory>.

Good fit It helps create, structure, validate, package, and distribute skills, including their SKILL.md files and trigger phrases.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bcastelino/agent-skills-kit/skill-creator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin skill-creator/plugin install skill-creator after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,993 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 $0.00052 $0.02993
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01496
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00599
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00299

Measured 9d ago against content hash 98f685121558, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

About

A skill is a folder containing SKILL.md (required instructions with YAML frontmatter) and optional bundled resources. Skills teach Claude how to handle specific tasks or workflows, eliminating the need to re-explain preferences, processes, and domain expertise in every conversation.

Skills are powerful when you have repeatable workflows: generating consistent documents, conducting research with a standard methodology, orchestrating multi-step processes, or providing workflow guidance on top of MCP integrations.

Use Case Categories

Skills fall into three common categories:

Category 1: Document & Asset Creation: creating consistent, high-quality output (documents, presentations, code, designs).

  • Key techniques: embedded style guides, template structures, quality checklists
  • No external tools required; uses Claude's built-in capabilities

Category 2: Workflow Automation: multi-step processes that benefit from consistent methodology.

  • Key techniques: step-by-step workflow with validation gates, iterative refinement loops
  • This skill (skill-creator) is a Category 2 example

Category 3: MCP Enhancement: workflow guidance layered on top of an MCP server's tool access.

  • Key techniques: multi-MCP call coordination, embedded domain expertise, error handling for MCP failures

Anatomy of a Skill

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md         # Required - instructions + YAML frontmatter
├── scripts/         # Optional - executable code (Python, Bash, etc.)
├── references/      # Optional - documentation loaded into context as needed
└── assets/          # Optional - templates, fonts, icons used in output
SKILL.md (required)

The YAML frontmatter is how Claude decides whether to load your skill. Get it right.

Minimal required format:

---
name: your-skill-name
description: What it does. Use when user asks to [specific phrases].
---

Full example with optional fields:

---
name: pdf-rotator
description: Rotates and reorients PDF pages. Use when the user says "rotate PDF", uploads a .pdf and asks to fix page orientation, or needs portrait/landscape conversion.
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires Python 3.9+ and pypdf
metadata: {version: "1.0.0", author: YourName, tags: [pdf-processing, file-manipulation]}
---

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 296 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 98f685121558

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository bcastelino/agent-skills-kit (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,993 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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