using-agent-skills

using-agent-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chankov/agent-fleet. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,339 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of using-agent-skills, MIT.

A guide for finding and using specialized agent skills during software work. It maps common situations—such as planning, coding, testing, or designing an API—to suggested workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select workflows for interviews, feature planning, implementation, frontend work, API design, documentation-based coding, and testing.
Why use it?
It helps an agent choose an appropriate process when a task arrives, instead of treating every request the same way. It also explains when additional context, documentation, or review may be needed.

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/chankov/agent-fleet/using-agent-skills
Any agent
npx skills add chankov/agent-fleet --skill using-agent-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chankov/agent-fleet

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,339 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.02339
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01170
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00468
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00234

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2a4eec1b1cd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-agent-skills 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to using-agent-skills — 19 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.versions/0.0.1/skills/using-agent-skills/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.

Using Agent Fleet

Overview

Agent Fleet is a collection of engineering workflow skills organized by development phase. Each skill encodes a specific process that senior engineers follow. This meta-skill helps you discover and apply the right skill for your current task.

Skill Discovery

When a task arrives, identify the development phase and apply the corresponding skill:

Task arrives
    │
    ├── Don't know what you want yet? ──────→ interview-me
    ├── Have a rough concept, need variants or stress-test? → idea-refine
    ├── New project/feature/change? ──→ spec-driven-development
    ├── Have a spec, need tasks or plan grilling? → planning-and-task-breakdown
    ├── Implementing code? ────────────→ incremental-implementation
    │   ├── UI work? ─────────────────→ frontend-ui-engineering
    │   ├── API work? ────────────────→ api-and-interface-design
    │   ├── Need better context? ─────→ context-engineering
    │   ├── Need doc-verified code? ───→ source-driven-development
    │   └── Stakes high / unfamiliar code? ──→ doubt-driven-development
    ├── Writing/running tests? ────────→ test-driven-development
    │   └── Browser-based? ───────────→ browser-testing-with-devtools
    ├── Something broke? ──────────────→ debugging-and-error-recovery
    ├── Reviewing code? ───────────────→ code-review-and-quality
    │   ├── Too complex? ─────────────→ code-simplification
    │   ├── Security concerns? ───────→ security-and-hardening
    │   └── Performance concerns? ────→ performance-optimization
    ├── Committing/branching? ─────────→ git-workflow-and-versioning
    ├── CI/CD pipeline work? ──────────→ ci-cd-and-automation
    ├── Deprecating/migrating? ────────→ deprecation-and-migration
    ├── Writing docs/ADRs? ───────────→ documentation-and-adrs
    ├── Adding logs/metrics/alerts? ───→ observability-and-instrumentation
    ├── Orchestrating a multi-agent team? → orchestration-verification
    │   └── "Make X behave like Y"? ──→ orchestration-verification (parity inventory)
    ├── Session ending with lessons worth keeping? → compound-learning
    ├── Authoring a new skill/persona? ─→ designing-agents
    └── Deploying/launching? ─────────→ shipping-and-launch

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 5d ago First seen · 200 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 2a4eec1b1cd9

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using-agent-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository chankov/agent-fleet (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,339 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to using-agent-skills, differing in 19 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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