skill-importer

skill-importer is a skill for Claude Code from chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork. It costs 30 tokens per session (420 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for turning an existing source folder into an agent skill by examining its contents and generating the required skill files. An agent skill is a set of instructions that teaches a coding agent how to perform a specific kind of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to import a source directory and create a SKILL.md file plus its metadata.
Why use it?
It avoids having to write the skill structure and instructions from scratch. The folder's contents become the starting point for a knowledge-focused skill.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to import a source directory and create a SKILL.md file plus its metadata.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/skill-importer
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 chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork --skill skill-importer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 420 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 $0.00030 $0.00420
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00168
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 18ee4ef63d90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-importer 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (impl.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-importer/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Skill Purpose

Use this skill when a user provides a folder and wants it converted into a reusable Cowork skill.

When to Use

Use it to inspect a source folder, summarize its capabilities, suggest which lightweight tools are relevant, and generate skill metadata after user confirmation.

Use Skill Center for user-facing imports. It can now accept either a source folder or a ZIP package; ZIP packages are unpacked safely and then routed through the same Cowork skill adaptation path.

When Not to Use

Do not use it for simple one-off file edits or when the user only wants an explanation of the folder contents.

Interface Details

analyze_skill_source_folder returns a JSON preview describing the inferred skill name, kind, candidate tool refs, references, risks, and generated metadata draft.

generate_skill_from_folder copies the source folder into ai_skills/<name> and writes SKILL.md plus skill.json centered on explanation, tool refs, and recommended workflow.

Skill Manager ZIP import supports flat-root packages and single-folder packages, reads the final skill name from skill.json or SKILL.md, rejects existing target names, and reloads skills after successful import.

Constraints and Safety Rules

Always preview before writing. Do not overwrite an existing generated skill unless the user has confirmed the update path.

When importing ZIP packages, never trust archive paths directly. The current Skill Manager validates that extracted paths stay inside the temporary extraction directory before adapting the package.

Common Pitfalls

Folders often contain multiple scripts and partial documentation. Prefer documenting the smallest useful tools instead of turning the entire folder into one big executable workflow.

Experience / Lessons Learned

Keep the generated skill knowledge-first: document interfaces and caveats before introducing new executable wrappers.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 38 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 18ee4ef63d90

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skill-importer is a skill published in the GitHub repository chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 420 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 2026-09-04.

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