repo-readme-assets

repo-readme-assets is a skill for Claude Code from bestdeejay-design/agent-skills. It costs 128 tokens per session (1,707 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating or updating an English repository README together with a localized copy and locally stored animated SVG header and footer graphics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a repository needs a new or refreshed README, an animated header or footer, or local SVG banners in one of four listed styles.
Why use it?
It keeps the repository documentation and its visual assets together without relying on external banner or badge services. The SVG animation uses formats that can display inside GitHub images without scripts or network requests.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it when a repository needs a new or refreshed README, an animated header or footer, or local SVG banners in one of four listed styles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets
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 bestdeejay-design/agent-skills --skill repo-readme-assets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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 repo-readme-assets

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for repo-readme-assets

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bestdeejay-design/agent-skills/repo-readme-assets.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,707 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 $0.00128 $0.01707
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00853
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00171

Measured today against content hash 24236402c0b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-readme-assets 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/extract_context.py, scripts/generate_assets.py, scripts/validate_svg.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/repo-readme-assets/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this skill to create or update a repository README and its visual header/footer with local animated SVG assets. Zero external services: no capsule-render, no shields generators, no URL banners. Animation is SMIL only (<animate>, <animateTransform>) so it works inside <img> on GitHub without scripts or network requests.

When to use

  • A repository needs a README with a header/footer banner (local animated SVG).
  • Major change happened and the README must reflect the current project state.
  • User asks for "readme header", "animated svg", "waving svg", "svg banner", "readme assets", "readme visual", "smil animation".

Do NOT use

  • README is already current and the user did not request changes — do not "improve".
  • A single tiny fix (e.g. one badge) — edit directly, no skill needed.
  • For legal/community files (LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY) — use repo-community-files.
  • For description/topics/Pages/community-health — use repo-metadata-health.
  • For the social preview PNG — use repo-social-preview.

Files

  • SKILL.md — this file
  • scripts/generate_assets.py — deterministic generation of assets/header.svg + assets/footer.svg
  • scripts/extract_context.py — auto-detect name/desc/stack/colors/username from git remote
  • scripts/validate_svg.py — validate SVG against skill rules (SMIL, mask, morphing)
  • references/svg-animation.md — full SVG animation spec + header/footer templates
  • references/svg-presets.md — the four presets
  • references/color-tokens.md — detected values (USERNAME/PROJECT_NAME/COLD/WARM)
  • references/canonical-patterns.md — canonical references and gaps

Scripts

Script Purpose Call
generate_assets.py Deterministic assets/header.svg + assets/footer.svg (presets: --preset default|minimal|dark-first|monochrome) python3 scripts/generate_assets.py --name X --desc Y --user Z --cold #HEX --warm #HEX [--preset default]
extract_context.py Auto-detect generation context from git remote python3 scripts/extract_context.py [--path DIR] [--gh-repo owner/repo] [--text]
validate_svg.py Validate SVG rules (SMIL, mask, d-path morphing) python3 scripts/validate_svg.py assets/

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. today Changed · +8 lines 24236402c0b0
  2. 12d ago First seen · 116 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 98734353290a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

repo-readme-assets is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestdeejay-design/agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 1,707 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.