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.
npx agentmods add skills/bh-rat/steer/converting-skillsnpx skills add bh-rat/steer --skill converting-skillsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bh-rat/steerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bh-rat/steer/converting-skills)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bh-rat/steer/converting-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bh-rat/steer/converting-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00070 | $0.01386 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00693 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00277 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00139 |
Grade A, and why
converting-skills scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
converting-skills
Port an existing skill onto steer without changing what it does. The user gets a drop-in rebuild (same name, same triggers, same capabilities), a NOTICE.md recording every delta, and a measured comparison against the original instead of a vibe.
The conversion flow and lessons run on this skill's bundled runtime
(scripts/steer.py); authoring the rebuild additionally needs the
installed steer CLI, checked below.
Before you start
- Check steer. Run
steer --version. If it is missing, ask the user to install it (uv tool install steer-aiorpip install steer-ai); do not hand-roll a lookalike scaffold. - Set two paths.
SKILLis this skill's own directory (this file's parent);WSis a scratch directory for this conversion. - Apply past lessons. Run
python3 "$SKILL/scripts/steer.py" learn showand follow what it says; those lessons came from real previous conversions. - Building something new instead? Creating a skill from scratch or improving one you own is the building-skills skill's job, if installed; this one is for porting an existing skill faithfully.
Ground rules
- The prose is the payload. The source skill's rules, red-flag lists, and phrasing are tuned content; convert the machinery around them and keep the voice verbatim.
- Rebuild exactly. Same name, same description triggers, same capabilities. Anything you deliberately change goes in NOTICE.md.
- License is a gate, not a formality. Per skill, not per repo. No-derivatives means stop and tell the user.
Process
The conversion runs behind an enforced flow: steps verify themselves against the conversion workspace, and you cannot skip ahead. The flow lives next to this file and operates on the conversion workspace:
python3 "$SKILL/scripts/steer.py" flow status --workspace "$WS"
python3 "$SKILL/scripts/steer.py" flow next --workspace "$WS"
Lay the workspace out the way the flow verifies it:
original/ vendored copy of the source skill
rebuild/<name>/ the steer rebuild
out/conversion/ triage.md, comparison.md
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 128 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 1ca4be5e1ef3
converting-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository bh-rat/steer (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,386 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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