What is skill-template?

A template-based generator for creating custom coding-agent skills or slash commands. It helps choose a structure and creates the skill file with its required metadata.

Use it to scaffold workflow, generator, checker, automation, or agent-backed skills and commands, then validate the result.

It reduces the manual setup needed when turning a repeatable task into a reusable agent instruction.

skill-template — Skill for Claude Code by claude-world

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-world/director-mode-lite

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-template

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install director-mode-lite, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 14 agents.

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README.md

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,079 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 Agent Snooping · line 134
Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.

Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00034	$0.01079
Opus 5	$0.00017	$0.00540
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00216
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00108

Measured 5d ago against content hash 72a49e0f640f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-template 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.

skills/skill-template/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Template Generator

Generate a custom skill (slash command) based on requirements.

Usage: /skill-template [skill-name] [purpose]

Templates

Purpose	Template	Features
Workflow	Multi-step	Sequential steps
Generator	Creator	File creation
Checker	Validator	Validation rules
Automation	Runner	Command execution
Agent-backed	Delegator	Runs in a forked subagent

Process

Gather Requirements
- Skill name (lowercase, hyphenated)
- Purpose
- Arguments (if any — space-separated names)
- Workflow steps
- Context isolation (context: fork)?
- Agent backing (agent:, only with context: fork)?
- Tool restrictions?
Select Template based on purpose
Generate File at .claude/skills/[name]/SKILL.md
Validate with /skill-check

Frontmatter Reference (official fields)

Only description is meaningfully required (name defaults to the directory name). All other fields are optional.

---
name: skill-name              # Optional: defaults to directory name; lowercase, hyphenated
description: What it does      # Recommended: shown in / menu and used for triggering
when_to_use: When to reach for it  # Optional: appended to description for triggering
                              #   (description + when_to_use truncated at 1,536 chars in listings)
user-invocable: true          # Optional: default true; false hides from / menu (Skill tool still works)
model: sonnet                 # Optional: fable, opus, sonnet, haiku, inherit, default, best,
                              #   sonnet[1m], opus[1m] (or a full model ID). NOT opusplan (session-only)
effort: medium                # Optional: low, medium, high, xhigh, max
allowed-tools:                # Optional: pre-approved tools. Accepts a comma-separated string
  - Read                      #   OR a YAML list — BOTH are official (list shown here as house style)
  - Grep
  - Glob
disallowed-tools:             # Optional: explicitly blocked tools (string or YAML list)
  - WebFetch
context: fork                 # Optional: run the skill in a subagent
agent: agent-name             # Optional: subagent type when context: fork (default: general-purpose)
argument-hint: "[issue-number]"  # Optional: autocomplete hint shown after the skill name
arguments: target flags       # Optional: space-separated argument NAMES for $name substitution
                              #   (arguments "target flags" -> use $target and $flags in the body).
                              #   NOT a structured array of name/description/required objects.
disable-model-invocation: false  # Optional: bool; true also blocks scheduled-task invocation
paths:                        # Optional: glob patterns that limit where the skill activates
  - "src/**/*.ts"
shell: bash                   # Optional: bash or powershell for inline !`command` blocks
hooks:                        # Optional: skill-scoped lifecycle hooks (same schema as settings.json)
  PreToolUse:
    - matcher: Bash
      hooks:
        - type: command
          command: echo "Bash used"
  Stop:
    - hooks:
        - type: command
          command: ./scripts/verify.sh
          once: true
---

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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.

5d ago Changed · -2 lines 72a49e0f640f
9d ago First seen · 140 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7a5083fa0db5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository claude-world/director-mode-lite (81 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,079 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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