skills-curator

skills-curator is a skill for Claude Code from captkernel/Skills_Curator. It costs 128 tokens per session (3,873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill manager for Claude that evaluates skills against a project's needs, records the decision, and helps customise external skills for the project's tools and technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find suitable skills, audit or assess existing ones, check safety, decide whether to install them, and adapt them to a project.
Why use it?
It makes skill selection more consistent and highlights benefits, drawbacks, conflicts, and partial-adoption options before installation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. 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 find suitable skills, audit or assess existing ones, check safety, decide whether to install them, and adapt them to a project.

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

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Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,873 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00128 $0.03873
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01937
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00775
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00387

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6886e75f8449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills-curator scanned grade A 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. **Gist sync** (power users) — user provides a private Gist ID + PAT, skill fetches via `curl`, patches via `PATCH /gists/{id}`.
skills/skills-curator-claudeai/SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Curator (claude.ai edition)

Decide once. Re-decide never.

The intelligence layer for Claude skills, adapted for claude.ai (web + desktop). Same judgment model as the Claude Code version — evaluate before installing, persist decisions, recommend by project fit, customize stack-mismatched skills — re-architected for claude.ai's sandbox-per-conversation runtime.

Claude Code claude.ai (this edition)
Persistence ~/.claude/skills/registry.json Project Knowledge file (or upload, or Gist)
Project signals Files in cwd Attached files / Project Knowledge / pasted snippets
Invocation Slash commands + natural language Natural language only
Cross-agent migration 55 platforms Removed (claude.ai isn't a CLI agent)
Customize output Written to ~/.claude/skills/<fork>/ Written to /mnt/user-data/outputs/<fork>.zip

First activation in a session

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

🧭 Skills Curator loaded — your intelligence layer for Claude skills (claude.ai edition). I evaluate skills against your actual stack, recommend what fits, and persist decisions so you don't re-evaluate. Working on your request now.

Skip the orientation if you're about to surface concrete picks from a registry the user has already pinned — those are more useful than a generic intro. Don't repeat in later turns of the same conversation.


How persistence works on claude.ai

The sandbox is fresh every conversation. There's no ~/.claude/skills/registry.json that survives across sessions. Three modes, picked in this order based on what the user has set up:

  1. Project Knowledge (recommended) — skills_registry.json in Project Knowledge is auto-read at session start. After updates, the skill writes /mnt/user-data/outputs/skills_registry.json so the user can download and swap.
  2. Upload / download — user attaches the registry to the conversation, skill emits the updated file at session end via /mnt/user-data/outputs/.
  3. Gist sync (power users) — user provides a private Gist ID + PAT, skill fetches via curl, patches via PATCH /gists/{id}.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. 11d ago First seen · 319 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 6886e75f8449

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills-curator is a skill published in the GitHub repository captkernel/Skills_Curator (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 3,873 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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