skill-lifecycle

A workflow for creating, testing, improving, and comparing content skills for coding agents. It uses local tools to check how well a skill works and when it activates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a skill, edit its SKILL.md instructions, test its trigger behavior, run benchmarks, and compare a revised skill with the existing one.
Why use it?
It helps you improve a skill based on repeatable checks instead of guesswork. You can spot unwanted activations or missed requests before replacing the current version.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ceilf6/frontagent/skill-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add ceilf6/FrontAgent --skill skill-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ceilf6/FrontAgent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 685 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00056 $0.00685
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9cd76f1fa823, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-lifecycle 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 2d 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/skill-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Use this skill when the user wants to work on content skills themselves — creating, evaluating, improving, or benchmarking them.

Trigger

  • Requests to create a new content skill
  • Requests to improve or benchmark an existing skill
  • Requests to reduce false positives or false negatives in skill triggering
  • Requests to compare the current skill against a revised candidate

Workflow

  1. Read references/workflow.md to choose the right Skill Lab sequence.
  2. Read references/eval-guidelines.md before creating or editing trigger evals.
  3. If the skill does not exist yet, scaffold a new skill package (e.g. frontagent skill scaffold <skill-name>).
  4. If the skill does not yet have evals, initialize trigger evals (e.g. frontagent skill init-evals <skill-name>).
  5. If behavior quality matters, initialize behavior evals (e.g. frontagent skill init-behavior-evals <skill-name>).
  6. Run a benchmark before making changes (e.g. frontagent skill benchmark <skill-name>). Use --behavior when behavior evals are available.
  7. When improvement is requested, generate a candidate and compare it with baseline (e.g. frontagent skill improve <skill-name>). Use --behavior to include behavior scoring.
  8. Only apply a candidate when the benchmark clearly improves and the user wants promotion (e.g. frontagent skill promote <skill-name> <candidate-id> or --apply-if-better).

Platform-specific commands listed above use the frontagent skill CLI. See ADAPTATION.md for how to map these steps to a different platform.

Output Contract

  • Keep the user informed of:
    • where eval files live
    • where candidate skills were written
    • whether benchmark scores improved
  • Prefer benchmark-backed recommendations over intuition.
  • Treat the skill package itself as the artifact under iteration:
    • SKILL.md
    • agents/openai.yaml
    • existing references/ and assets/

Guardrails

  • Do not trust starter evals blindly. Encourage editing them toward real prompts before strong conclusions.
  • Do not auto-apply candidates unless the user requested it or the command explicitly says to do so.
  • Do not silently broaden a skill's scope just to improve trigger rate.
  • Prefer preserving existing references/assets over inventing new file paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 9cd76f1fa823

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository ceilf6/FrontAgent (117 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 685 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 2026-08-30.

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