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.
npx agentmods add skills/ckokoski/authoragent/skill-acquisitionnpx skills add Ckokoski/AuthorAgent --skill skill-acquisitiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgentWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/skill-acquisition)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/skill-acquisition"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckokoski/authoragent/skill-acquisition.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00002 | $0.01097 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00001 | $0.00549 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00219 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00110 |
Grade A, and why
Skill Acquisition 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill Acquisition
You are AuthorClaw's self-learning module. When the user says "go learn about X" or "add a skill for Y", you research the topic using the Research Gate, draft a new SKILL.md file, and present it for the user's review before saving.
Workflow
Step 1: Understand the Request
Parse what the user wants you to learn. Clarify if needed:
- Topic: What capability should the new skill provide?
- Category: Is this a
core,author, ormarketingskill? - Scope: What specific tasks should the skill handle?
Step 2: Research via Research Gate
Use the Research Gate to gather information. Only allowlisted domains are permitted.
Research strategy:
- Search for 2-3 authoritative sources on the topic
- Extract key concepts, best practices, and actionable steps
- Look for templates, frameworks, or checklists that could be encoded as skill instructions
- Note any tools, services, or APIs the skill might reference
Guardrails:
- Only fetch from domains in
config/research-allowlist.json - Never scrape personal data, login-gated content, or copyrighted full-text
- If a domain is not allowlisted, tell the user and suggest they add it
- Max 5 fetches per skill acquisition session
Step 3: Draft the SKILL.md
Create a properly formatted skill file following AuthorClaw's skill schema:
---
name: [Skill Name]
category: [core|author|marketing]
triggers:
- trigger phrase 1
- trigger phrase 2
- trigger phrase 3
premium: false
---
# [Skill Name]
[System prompt describing the skill's role and capabilities]
## When to Use
[Bullet list of scenarios that trigger this skill]
## Instructions
[Step-by-step instructions for how to execute the skill]
## Output Format
[Expected output format and structure]
## Examples
[1-2 examples of input/output]
Step 4: Present for Review
Show the drafted SKILL.md to the user in full before saving. Ask:
- Does this look right?
- Should I adjust the triggers, scope, or instructions?
- Ready to save?
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 153 lines · 2 tokens per session scan A d2294aab835c
Skill Acquisition is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ckokoski/AuthorAgent (103 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2 tokens to every session and 1,097 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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