prompt-engineer

prompt-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-improvement skill that turns vague or unstructured requests into clearer instructions for an AI assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing prompts for coding, debugging, analysis, planning, or other tasks where the original request needs structure.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing context and requirements so the resulting AI response is more useful for complex tasks.

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/beel-collab/presets.dev/prompt-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add beel-collab/presets.dev --skill prompt-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beel-collab/presets.dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,613 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 $0.00041 $0.02613
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01307
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00261

Measured 3d ago against content hash 445cc3c5bdea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-engineer 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.

claude/skills/automation/prompt-engineer/SKILL.md · 281 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 281 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This skill transforms raw, unstructured user prompts into highly optimized prompts using established prompting frameworks. It analyzes user intent, identifies task complexity, and intelligently selects the most appropriate framework(s) to maximize Claude/ChatGPT output quality.

The skill operates in "magic mode" - it works silently behind the scenes, only interacting with users when clarification is critically needed. Users receive polished, ready-to-use prompts without technical explanations or framework jargon.

This is a universal skill that works in any terminal context, not limited to Obsidian vaults or specific project structures.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when:

  • User provides a vague or generic prompt (e.g., "help me code Python")
  • User has a complex idea but struggles to articulate it clearly
  • User's prompt lacks structure, context, or specific requirements
  • Task requires step-by-step reasoning (debugging, analysis, design)
  • User needs a prompt for a specific AI task but doesn't know prompting frameworks
  • User wants to improve an existing prompt's effectiveness
  • User asks variations of "how do I ask AI to..." or "create a prompt for..."

Workflow

Step 1: Analyze Intent

Objective: Understand what the user truly wants to accomplish.

Actions:

  1. Read the raw prompt provided by the user
  2. Detect task characteristics:
    • Type: coding, writing, analysis, design, learning, planning, decision-making, creative, etc.
    • Complexity: simple (one-step), moderate (multi-step), complex (requires reasoning/design)
    • Clarity: clear intention vs. ambiguous/vague
    • Domain: technical, business, creative, academic, personal, etc.
  3. Identify implicit requirements:
    • Does user need examples?
    • Is output format specified?
    • Are there constraints (time, resources, scope)?
    • Is this exploratory or execution-focused?

Detection Patterns:

  • Simple tasks: Short prompts (<50 chars), single verb, no context
  • Complex tasks: Long prompts (>200 chars), multiple requirements, conditional logic
  • Ambiguous tasks: Generic verbs ("help", "improve"), missing object/context
  • Structured tasks: Mentions steps, phases, deliverables, stakeholders

Read the full file on GitHub · 281 lines

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 · 281 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 445cc3c5bdea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prompt-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,613 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 2026-08-31.

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