skill.auto_add

skill.auto_add is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 14 tokens per session (870 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Git-based skill-improvement tool that compares earlier and later versions of a file and turns the lessons from those edits into better instructions. It generalizes the change instead of copying one exact example.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve a skill or prompt using the Git history of a file as evidence.
Why use it?
It helps prevent an agent from repeating a mistake that a developer previously had to fix by hand. It also checks that the required files and committed history are available before proceeding.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to improve a skill or prompt using the Git history of a file as evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/skill.auto_add
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 causify-ai/helpers --skill skill.auto_add
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 870 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 4
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00014 $0.00870
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00348
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00087

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b4fd69f89dc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill.auto_add 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/skill.auto_add/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal

  • The user gives you two arguments:
    • <FILE>: a path to a file that has been edited across one or more Git commits
    • <PROMPT>: a path to a skill (SKILL.md) or prompt file to improve
  • The edits to <FILE> encode a lesson: someone had to fix something by hand that <PROMPT> should have gotten right the first time
  • Your job is to update <PROMPT> so that, given the original <FILE>, it would now produce the final <FILE>
  • Generalize: infer the underlying rule, do not hard-code the specific strings from this one diff

Inputs

  • If <FILE> or <PROMPT> is missing or ambiguous, stop and ask the user rather than guessing
  • If <FILE> has no committed changes, report that and stop

Workflow

Determine the Changes

  • Find the commits that touched <FILE>:
    > git log --oneline --follow -- <FILE>
    
  • Identify the first and last relevant revisions. Default to the full history of the file; if the user named a range, use that instead
  • Extract <CHANGES> as a unified diff:
    > git diff <FIRST_SHA> <LAST_SHA> -- <FILE>
    
    • If the diff is large, also read the final version in full so you understand the intended end state, not just the deltas:
      > git show <LAST_SHA>:<FILE>
      
  • Do not use interactive commands (e.g. git difftool): they block

Read the Prompt and the Conventions

  • Read <PROMPT> in full
  • Read .claude/skills/skill.rules.md for the conventions and rules that govern how skills and prompts must be written
  • Read any files <PROMPT> references, so you don't duplicate a rule that already lives elsewhere

Infer the Rules

  • For each meaningful hunk in <CHANGES>, write down:
    • what changed (before -> after)
    • the general rule it implies
    • whether <PROMPT> already covers it (fully / partially / not at all)
  • Drop hunks that are one-off content edits rather than repeatable rules (e.g. fixing a specific typo, updating a date): say explicitly which hunks you dropped and why
  • Merge rules that are restatements of each other. Prefer one sharp rule over three overlapping ones

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 1mo ago Changed b4fd69f89dc5
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines · -5 tokens per session f395cb43f1fc
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 7428359eda17

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skill.auto_add is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 870 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.