skills-curator

skills-curator is a skill for Claude Code from captkernel/Skills_Curator. It costs 66 tokens per session (3,780 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill manager that evaluates coding-agent skills, records adoption decisions, and adapts selected skills to a project's tools and framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recommend skills, assess their fit and risks, customise instructions for a project, and keep a reusable decision record.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated research and helps avoid installing skills that conflict with the project or needlessly duplicate one another.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the skills-curator plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to recommend skills, assess their fit and risks, customise instructions for a project, and keep a reusable decision record.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/captkernel/skills_curator/skills-curator
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-curator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,780 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00066 $0.03780
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01890
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00756
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00378

Measured 9d ago against content hash 33cb1a8786f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills-curator 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/registry.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/skills-curator/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Curator v4

Install the skill. Customize it to your stack. Decide once, never re-decide.

Other skill managers stop at install. Skills Curator's headline capability is --customize: take any external skill, scan the user's project, and produce a project-tailored fork with examples rewritten for their stack (Vue → React, Django → FastAPI, generic CI → their CI). The engine emits a per-section action plan (keep, keep-trim, rewrite-stack, drop-or-rewrite, rewrite-frontmatter); the agent does the prose. Nothing else in the ecosystem does this.

The second pillar is persistent judgment: every evaluation produces a structured record (pros / cons / conflicts / verdict / partial-adoption plan) saved to a personal registry — so the same skill is never re-evaluated from scratch, and decisions become PR-pasteable artifacts.

Read reference files on demand:

  • references/commands.md — all commands and flags
  • references/evaluation.md — evaluation format and principles
  • references/discovery.md — how recommendations work, response templates, categories
  • references/schema.md — registry data model

First activation in a session

The first time this skill activates in a session, open with this two-line orientation before answering, then continue with whatever was asked:

🧭 Skills Curator loaded — your intelligence layer for Claude skills. I maintain a trust-rated catalog (curated entries + live GitHub topic search), identify what fits your project (stack, deps, CLAUDE.md), and on request return ranked lists with pros, cons, and per-project customization advice — persisting every decision so you don't re-evaluate. Working on your request now.

Skip the orientation entirely if --auto (next section) is about to surface concrete picks — those are more useful than a generic intro. Don't repeat orientation in later messages of the same session.


Proactive activation (the intelligence layer)

Customization is the headline capability; proactive activation is what makes it useful unprompted. Don't wait for the user to say "evaluate this skill" — surface relevant skills when project context implies one would help, and lead with --customize when the skill's stack doesn't match.

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 292 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 33cb1a8786f0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills-curator is a skill published in the GitHub repository captkernel/Skills_Curator (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 3,780 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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