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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/claude-world/director-mode-litenpx agentmods add skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-templateWrote 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/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-template)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-template"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-template/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-template"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/claude-world/director-mode-lite/skill-template.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
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.
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 | $0.01144 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00458 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00229 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00114 |
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 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 — 142 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
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Gather Requirements
- Skill name (lowercase, hyphenated)
- Purpose
- Arguments (if any — space-separated names)
- Workflow steps
- Context isolation (
context: fork)? - Agent backing (
agent:, only withcontext: fork)? - Tool restrictions?
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Select Template based on purpose
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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: any /model value (sonnet, opus, haiku, fable, best,
# default, opusplan, sonnet[1m], opus[1m], a full model ID) or inherit
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)
background: false # Optional (2.1.218+): with context: fork, false waits for the result;
# forked skills run in the background by default
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
---
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 Changed · +4 lines 7d70066bd2f0
- 1mo ago Changed · -2 lines 72a49e0f640f
- 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7a5083fa0db5
skill-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository claude-world/director-mode-lite (80 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,144 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 2026-08-30.
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