Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Black-coffe/vulyk. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Black-coffe/vulyk/main/.claude/skills/_meta/skill-gardener/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Black-coffe/vulykWrote 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/black-coffe/vulyk/skill-gardener)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/black-coffe/vulyk/skill-gardener"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/black-coffe/vulyk/skill-gardener/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/black-coffe/vulyk/skill-gardener"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/black-coffe/vulyk/skill-gardener.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00056 | $0.00370 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00185 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00074 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00037 |
Grade A, and why
skill-gardener 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.
What it actually says
Skill Gardener
Skills are living things: they are born from repetition, earn their place through use, and retire when the season changes.
Inputs
memory/stats/skills.json(per-skill invocation counters, maintained by the skill-usage-counter hook).claude/skills/inventory and.claude/rules/inventorymemory/learnings/CONSOLIDATED.mdfor repetition signals
Method
- Retirement review. Zero invocations for 3+ weeks -> archive candidate. EXCEPTION: severity-justified skills (incident response, security checklists) stay regardless of frequency - mark them
keep: severityso they are not re-flagged every cycle. - Promotion review. A pattern executed manually 3+ times (from learnings) -> draft a new skill: name, trigger description, method skeleton. The draft goes in the changeset for human review, never silently installed.
- Hygiene. Flag skills whose description no longer matches their body, overlapping skills that should merge, and skills above ~150 lines (split or tighten).
- Retire with dignity. Archive = move to
.claude/skills/_graveyard/<name>/+ addRETIRED.md(date, reason, evidence, how to resurrect). History is never deleted.
Output
Three lists with evidence: retire | promote | repair. Each entry one line + links.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 23 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A cec2c9b3a7c5
skill-gardener is a skill published in the GitHub repository Black-coffe/vulyk (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 370 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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config-validator
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artifact-metadata
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claims-validator
Validate documentation for unsupported claims, made-up metrics, and unverifiable statements.