create-pipeline

create-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from calkit/calkit. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,415 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for turning a research project’s loose scripts and manual steps into a reproducible Calkit pipeline. A pipeline is an ordered set of automated steps whose outputs can be recreated from recorded inputs and environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect scripts and notebooks, map their inputs and outputs, define required environments, and create the calkit.yaml stages needed for Calkit to reproduce the project.
Why use it?
It replaces undocumented run order and setup work with a defined process that can be run again from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the calkit plugin — 4 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install calkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,415 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00047 $0.01415
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00142

Measured 4d ago against content hash d851b0d620d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-pipeline 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 4d 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.

agent-plugin/skills/create-pipeline/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create a Calkit pipeline

Convert an existing repo with ad hoc scripts and manual steps into a fully reproducible Calkit pipeline. When complete, calkit run should reproduce all important outputs from scratch.

Step 1: Understand the existing repo

Before writing any YAML, map out what's already there. Start with the README. Users will typically write manual environment creation steps, and lists of script and commands to run in order. This is like a manual pipeline. Next:

  1. List all scripts and notebooks: look in scripts/, notebooks/, src/, and the repo root for .py, .R, .jl, .m, .ipynb files.
  2. Read each script to understand what it reads and writes.
  3. Identify the dependency order: which outputs of script A become inputs to script B?
  4. Note which environment each script needs (Python version, packages, R, Julia, MATLAB, Docker, etc.).

Ask the user if the order or dependencies are unclear. Do not guess at data flow.

Step 2: Initialize the project

If there is no calkit.yaml, run:

calkit init

This sets up Git (if needed) and DVC. If calkit.yaml already exists but has no pipeline section, skip this—you will add one.

Step 3: Define environments

Every stage must reference a named environment. Identify what's needed:

  • Python: requirements.txt or pyproject.tomluv-venv; environment.ymlconda
  • R: renv.lockrenv
  • Julia: Project.tomljulia
  • LaTeX: docker with texlive/texlive:latest-full
  • MATLAB: matlab

Add environments to calkit.yaml:

environments:
  main:
    kind: uv-venv
    path: requirements.txt
    python: "3.13"

Name a single Python environment main. With multiple environments, use descriptive names (e.g., analysis, paper).

Step 4: Try calkit xr first

For each script or notebook, try xr before writing YAML by hand. It auto-detects stage kind, environment, and I/O:

calkit xr scripts/collect-data.py --dry-run   # preview first
calkit xr scripts/collect-data.py             # run for real

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 190 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A d851b0d620d0

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create-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository calkit/calkit (55 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,415 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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