skill-builder

skill-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bntvllnt/agent-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,192 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guide for creating, changing, renaming, deleting, or checking Agent Skills. Agent Skills are instruction packages that give compatible coding agents repeatable ways to handle specific tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Build or improve skill descriptions, folder structures, safety rules, routing, progressive disclosure, and validation procedures.
Why use it?
It helps keep skills focused, consistent, safe, and easy for an agent to select correctly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/bntvllnt/agent-skills/skill-builder
Any agent
npx skills add bntvllnt/agent-skills --skill skill-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bntvllnt/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 skill-builder

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bntvllnt/agent-skills/skill-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bntvllnt/agent-skills/skill-builder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,192 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00050 $0.02192
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01096
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00438
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00219

Measured 6d ago against content hash a07f32412264, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

skill-builder scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- Never recommend `rm -rf`, `git reset --hard`, or `push --force` as defaults.
skill-builder/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Builder

Unified, security-first skill builder.

This skill is intentionally opinionated:

  • Prefer no new skill if a simpler change works.
  • When you do create a skill, make it boring, testable, and hard to misuse.
  • Keep one clear router and avoid overlapping descriptions across skills.
  • Stay model-agnostic and harness-agnostic unless the target environment explicitly requires otherwise.

Operation Router

User intent Operation Output
create/build/make/new skill CREATE new skill folder + SKILL.md + only the companion files actually needed
update/modify/improve skill UPDATE minimal diff, keep scope stable
delete/remove skill DELETE remove skill + update any dependent references
add content/route/workflow to skill ADD new router row + minimal supporting procedure
validate skill VALIDATE evidence-backed validation report + fixes
rename skill RENAME safe rename + reference updates

Operation Selection Rules

Use the smallest operation that solves the request:

  • CREATE — new user-facing capability or clearly distinct intent/description domain.
  • UPDATE — improve an existing skill without changing its core scope.
  • ADD — add one new route, example, or sub-workflow inside the current scope.
  • RENAME — change identity/path/name while preserving mostly the same behavior.
  • DELETE — remove obsolete capability because it is superseded, merged, or no longer useful.
  • VALIDATE — inspect correctness without broadening scope.

If uncertain, default to UPDATE rather than CREATE.

What "Correct" Means

This skill treats "correct" as:

  • Conforms to the Agent Skills spec where the spec is explicit.
  • Uses progressive disclosure: concise SKILL.md, deeper docs only when needed.
  • Has unambiguous activation: specific description + non-overlapping neighboring skills.
  • Is safe: no secrets, no default-destructive commands, explicit confirmation boundaries.
  • Produces validation evidence instead of relying on vibes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago First seen · 296 lines · 50 tokens per session scan C a07f32412264

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skill-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository bntvllnt/agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,192 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.