Agent Skills is a collection and marketplace of reusable instruction sets that teach AI agents specific workflows, tasks, or domain knowledge, with supporting files such as scripts, templates, and examples. It is for people who want to install, browse, create, or contribute portable skills for compatible agents. The catalogue entries are individual skills from this collection.
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 skills add block/agent-skills --skill api-setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/agent-skillsWrote 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/block/agent-skills/api-setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/block/agent-skills/api-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/block/agent-skills/api-setup/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/block/agent-skills/api-setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/block/agent-skills/api-setup.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 | $0.00013 | $0.00276 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00110 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00055 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00028 |
Grade A, and why
api-setup 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 1mo 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
API Setup
This skill helps you set up a new API integration with our standard configuration.
Steps
- Run
setup.sh <api-name>to create the integration directory - Copy
templates/config.template.jsonto your integration directory - Update the config with your API credentials
- Test the connection
Configuration
The config template includes:
api_key: Your API key (get from the provider's dashboard)endpoint: API endpoint URLtimeout: Request timeout in seconds (default: 30)
Verification
After setup, verify:
- Config file is valid JSON
- API key is set and not a placeholder
- Test connection succeeds
Troubleshooting
Connection Timeout
If you experience connection timeouts:
- Check your network connection
- Verify the endpoint URL is correct
- Increase the timeout value in config
Authentication Errors
If you get 401/403 errors:
- Verify your API key is correct
- Check if the key has the required permissions
- Ensure the key hasn't expired
What ships with it
2 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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 1766b70c735c
api-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository block/agent-skills (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 276 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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