generate-skills

generate-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,693 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for creating project-specific instructions that teach coding agents a codebase’s conventions and structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a codebase and create a .skills directory containing reusable guidance for its tools, patterns, and development practices.
Why use it?
Agents often produce code that does not match an existing project; these instructions give them the project context needed to work consistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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/benja-pauls/serpentstack/generate-skills
Any agent
npx skills add Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack --skill generate-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,693 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 5.1 $0.00066 $0.01693
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00847
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00169

Measured 6d ago against content hash 24251a5b17e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-skills 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 6d 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/generate-skills/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Project-Specific Skills

Analyze an existing codebase and interview the developer to produce project-specific Agent Skills (SKILL.md files) that teach IDE agents how to write code matching the project's conventions.

This skill works for ANY codebase — not just SerpentStack. The output is a .skills/ directory following the Agent Skills open standard (agentskills.io).

When to Use

  • The user has an existing project and wants agents to understand their conventions
  • The user says "generate skills," "create skills for my project," or "make my agent understand my codebase"
  • The user wants a .skills/ directory for a project that doesn't have one

Phase 1: Codebase Discovery

Before asking questions, read the codebase to come prepared. Reduce burden on the developer by finding answers yourself first.

  1. Read project structure: ls -R or find . -type f -name "*.py" -o -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.js" | head -50
  2. Read config files: package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod, Makefile, docker-compose.yml
  3. Read existing context files: .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
  4. Read 2-3 representative source files: a model/entity, a service/controller, a test file, a route/handler
  5. Read the test setup: conftest.py, jest.config, vitest.config, test fixtures

From this, form hypotheses about:

  • Language, framework, and major dependencies
  • Project structure (where models, services, routes, tests live)
  • Transaction/database patterns
  • Auth approach
  • Test infrastructure
  • API patterns (REST, GraphQL, RPC)
  • Frontend patterns (if applicable)

Phase 2: Developer Interview

Use AskUserQuestion to confirm hypotheses and uncover conventions that aren't visible in code. Ask 5-8 rounds of questions. Do not ask obvious questions — you already read the code. Ask about the WHY and the EDGE CASES.

Round 1: Confirm Architecture

Present what you found and ask for corrections:

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 6d ago First seen · 189 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 24251a5b17e2

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generate-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,693 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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