claude-pilot: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/claude-prompt-guide/SKILL.md

claude-prompt-guide is a skill for Claude Code from changoo89/claude-pilot. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for creating and editing Claude prompts, commands, and agent skills. It explains Anthropic's XML tag patterns and a 10-part framework for structuring prompts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing system prompts, creating skills or commands, changing agent behavior, and investigating prompt-related problems.
Why use it?
It helps make agent instructions clearer and more predictable, especially when controlling when an agent acts or uses tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is changoo89/claude-pilot's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-pilot itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-pilot configures →

Part of the claude-pilot plugin — 32 skills, 11 commands, 14 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to changoo89/claude-pilot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/changoo89/claude-pilot/main/.claude/skills/claude-prompt-guide/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/changoo89/claude-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 11 commands, 14 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,531 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 $0.00040 $0.01531
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00766
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00153

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6b4236ad7fd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-prompt-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 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.

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/claude-prompt-guide/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Claude Prompt Guide

Purpose: Document Anthropic XML tag patterns and prompt engineering best practices Target: All agents creating or modifying system prompts, commands, and skills


Quick Start

When to Use This Skill

  • Creating new system prompts or agent instructions
  • Modifying existing command or skill behavior
  • Debugging prompt-related issues

Quick Reference

<do_not_act_before_instructions>Defer action until conditions met</do_not_act_before_instructions>
<default_to_action>Prefer tool use over chat responses</default_to_action>
<use_parallel_tool_calls>Execute independent tools simultaneously</use_parallel_tool_calls>
<investigate_before_answering>Research before responding</investigate_before_answering>
<avoid_excessive_markdown_and_bullet_points>Prefer prose over lists</avoid_excessive_markdown_and_bullet_points>

What This Skill Covers

In Scope

  • Anthropic official behavior control XML patterns
  • System prompt internal tag structure
  • 10-Component Framework for effective prompts
  • Best practices (DO/DON'T)

Out of Scope

  • Model-specific tuning → @.claude/skills/coding-standards/SKILL.md
  • Agent role definitions → @.claude/agents/CONTEXT.md

Core Concepts

CRITICAL: Tag Names Are Customizable

XML tag names are NOT magic - the content/instructions matter, not the tag name.


Official Behavior Control Tags

<do_not_act_before_instructions> - Control When to Defer Action

Purpose: Prevent premature tool use or implementation When to Use: Read-only phases, planning stages

<do_not_act_before_instructions>
This is a READ-ONLY planning phase. Do not use Edit tool or modify any files.
Only proceed with implementation when the user explicitly runs `/01_confirm` → `/02_execute`.
</do_not_act_before_instructions>

<default_to_action> - Encourage Proactive Tool Use

Purpose: Prefer tool execution over chat-only responses

<default_to_action>
Prefer taking action through tool use rather than providing lengthy explanations.
</default_to_action>

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 200 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 6b4236ad7fd6

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claude-prompt-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository changoo89/claude-pilot (20 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,531 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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