skills-curator-lite

skills-curator-lite is a skill for Claude Code from captkernel/Skills_Curator. It costs 175 tokens per session (10,861 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A dependency-free skill manager for Claude that evaluates skills, checks project fit, adapts instructions to the project's technology, and records decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for skills, compare their fit, create project-specific versions, save recommendations, and migrate skills across agent platforms.
Why use it?
It helps choose and customise skills when Python or extra dependencies are unavailable, while avoiding repeated evaluations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to search for skills, compare their fit, create project-specific versions, save recommendations, and migrate skills across agent platforms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/captkernel/skills_curator/skills-curator-lite
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-lite
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 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,861 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00175 $0.10861
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.05431
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.02172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.01086

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6e73dd765a21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

skills-curator-lite scanned grade C with 2 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.

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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- scanner:ignore-block-start -->

Makes network callslowCapability

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

trust-rated catalog (curated entries + live GitHub topic search via curl),
skills/skills-curator-lite/SKILL.md · 921 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 921 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Curator Lite

Install the skill. Customize it to your stack. Decide once, never re-decide. — without Python.

The intelligence layer for Claude skills, implemented as pure agent instructions. Same judgment-first model as the full Skills Curator — evaluate before installing, persist your decisions, recommend by project fit, migrate across agent platforms — but the agent does the work directly using Bash, Read, Glob, Grep, and Write.

The headline capability is CUSTOMIZE (see the dedicated section below): take any external skill, scan the project, and produce a project-tailored fork with examples rewritten for the user's actual stack. Nothing else in the ecosystem does this. Recommendation and evaluation are how you get to the right skill; customization is what makes adopting it painless.

Choose this when: Python isn't available, you want zero dependencies, or you prefer agent reasoning you can read line-by-line.

Choose the full version when: you have 100+ skills (single Python pass beats N agent calls), you want regression-tested code, or you need cross-device Gist sync.


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 Lite loaded — your intelligence layer for Claude skills (Python-free). 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 proactive activation (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)

Read the full file on GitHub · 921 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. 9d ago First seen · 921 lines · 175 tokens per session scan C 6e73dd765a21

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skills-curator-lite is a skill published in the GitHub repository captkernel/Skills_Curator (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 10,861 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (hidden instructions, 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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