skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from clacky-ai/openclacky. It costs 64 tokens per session (6,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A toolkit for creating and improving skills, which are reusable instruction packs for coding agents. It covers drafting, testing, comparing results, and refining those instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building a new agent skill, editing an existing one, writing test cases, and evaluating different versions.
Why use it?
It gives skill authors a repeatable way to find unclear instructions and measure whether changes improve results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Building a new agent skill, editing an existing one, writing test cases, and evaluating different versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/clacky-ai/openclacky/skill-creator
About the project

OpenClacky is an open-source AI coding agent that uses OpenAI-compatible models to perform tasks through tools and subagents. It is intended for developers who want an agent with flexible model choice and lower token usage. The catalogue skills and agents extend its workflows and capabilities.

clacky-ai/openclacky · 1,186 stars · on GitHub · openclacky.com

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 clacky-ai/openclacky --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/clacky-ai/openclacky

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,187 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 3
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 59
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 497
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00064 $0.06187
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.03093
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.01237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00619

Measured 10d ago against content hash b0c9cc52221e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (eval-viewer/generate_review.py, scripts/__init__.py, scripts/aggregate_benchmark.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

task: "Quick mode: create a skill named 'url-summarizer'. It should extract and summarize content from URLs: 1) fetch the URL using terminal with curl, 2) parse the HTML to extract main text content, 3) generate a concis
lib/clacky/default_skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 605 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 605 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

A skill for creating new skills and iteratively improving them.

Usage Modes

This skill supports two modes:

1. Interactive Mode (default)

The full workflow with user interviews, test cases, and iteration cycles. Use when creating or refining skills manually.

At a high level, the process of creating a skill goes like this:

  • Decide what you want the skill to do and roughly how it should do it
  • Write a draft of the skill
  • Create a few test prompts and simulate running them (with vs. without the skill instructions)
  • Help the user evaluate the results both qualitatively and quantitatively
    • While reviewing, draft quantitative assertions if there aren't any
    • Use eval-viewer/generate_review.py to generate a static HTML viewer for the user to review results and leave feedback
  • Rewrite the skill based on the user's feedback
  • Repeat until satisfied

Your job is to figure out where the user is in this process and jump in to help them progress through these stages. Maybe they say "I want to make a skill for X" — help narrow down the intent, write a draft, write test cases, evaluate, and repeat. Or maybe they already have a draft — go straight to the eval/iterate part.

Always be flexible. If the user says "skip the evals, just vibe with me", do that instead.

2. Quick Mode (for agent self-evolution)

Trigger: When the task text starts with Quick mode:.

Fast, opinionated skill creation without user interaction. This mode is used by the agent's self-evolution system to automatically create or improve skills.

Behavior:

  • Skip user interviews and detailed requirements gathering
  • Extract workflow pattern from provided context
  • Write a minimal but functional SKILL.md
  • Save to ~/.clacky/skills/auto-<name>-<timestamp>/ (or improve existing skill in place)
  • Skip test cases and evals (user can refine later if needed)
  • Always validate frontmatter with the validator script after creation
  • Focus on the happy path; edge cases can be added later

Read the full file on GitHub · 605 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. 10d ago First seen · 605 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A b0c9cc52221e

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository clacky-ai/openclacky (1,186 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 6,187 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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