skill-authoring-guide

skill-authoring-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry. It costs 0 tokens per session (174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or reviewing skill-hub-compatible skill packages, including their instructions, metadata, examples, scripts, and deployment checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when authoring, packaging, reviewing, installing, or preparing a skill for deployment.
Why use it?
It helps keep a skill focused, reusable, testable, and safe to publish by checking its trigger, structure, instructions, version, and local dependencies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when authoring, packaging, reviewing, installing, or preparing a skill for deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cassianflorin/skill-hub-registry/skill-authoring-guide
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 CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry --skill skill-authoring-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 174 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 $0.00000 $0.00174
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00087
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5622ccf087d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-authoring-guide 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 10d 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.

skills/official/skill-authoring-guide/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Skill Authoring Guide

Use this skill when creating or reviewing a skill-hub compatible skill package.

Instructions

  • Keep the skill focused on one repeatable workflow.
  • Put durable instructions in SKILL.md.
  • Put reusable examples, checklists, or scripts under references/, scripts/, or assets/.
  • Include a skill.yaml with name, namespace, version, description, entry, targets, and tags.
  • Prefer small, testable workflows over broad general-purpose prompts.
  • Before publishing, install the skill locally and verify its entry file can be deployed to the intended runtime.

Checklist

  • The skill has a clear trigger.
  • The instructions tell the agent what to do and what not to do.
  • The package avoids private credentials and local-only paths.
  • The version is updated when behavior changes.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 10d ago First seen · 20 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5622ccf087d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-authoring-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository CassianFlorin/skill-hub-registry (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 174 tokens. 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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