skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code from conorbronsdon/agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,719 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating reusable Claude Code skills from a plain-language description. A skill is a set of instructions that teaches an AI coding assistant how to handle a recurring task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide how a skill is invoked, create its files, handle user arguments, control context use, and test the result.
Why use it?
It removes the need to design skill settings, argument handling, file structure, and tests from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to decide how a skill is invoked, create its files, handle user arguments, control context use, and test the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/conorbronsdon/agent-skills/skill-creator
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 conorbronsdon/agent-skills --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conorbronsdon/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/conorbronsdon/agent-skills/skill-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/conorbronsdon/agent-skills/skill-creator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,719 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 $0.00053 $0.01719
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00172

Measured 8d ago against content hash d1dc610c1928, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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 8d 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.

skill-creator/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skill-creator — Build New Skills Fast

Takes a plain-language description of a task and generates a ready-to-ship skill. The design goal is skills that are cheap in ambient context and current with the skill spec — most skill-creator skills in the wild fail on exactly those two axes: they don't know about arguments/argument-hint, never suggest disable-model-invocation, and write bloated descriptions that tax every session.

When to Use

  • "I want a skill that does X"
  • "Build me a slash command for Y"
  • "Add a skill for [recurring task I do]"

Before You Start

Read:

  • reference.md — snapshot of the current frontmatter spec, argument substitutions, and invocation/context-loading behavior. Check its snapshot date first: if older than 3 months, warn the user and continue with the pinned snapshot — don't re-fetch or modify the reference mid-generation. Spec updates are maintenance, not a side effect of building a skill: the canonical copy at agent-skill-builder has weekly spec-drift CI that opens an issue on upstream changes; sync from there, or update on an explicit ask.
  • The host repo's CLAUDE.md and existing skills — avoid duplicating a skill that already exists, and match local conventions.

Instructions

1. Clarify the skill

Ask (or infer from context):

  • Name: lowercase, hyphenated. The directory name under .claude/skills/ is the command you type; frontmatter name is only a display label.
  • Who invokes it — this is the most important design decision:
    • User-only (side effects, or timing the user controls: publish, send, deploy, log) → disable-model-invocation: true. Bonus: the description is then not loaded into every session — zero ambient context cost.
    • Claude-only (background knowledge, not an action) → user-invocable: false.
    • Both (default) → the description must carry the trigger keywords, and it becomes a permanent per-session context cost. Make it earn that.
  • Arguments: does the user pass input on the command line? If yes: set argument-hint, and use $ARGUMENTS (or $0/$1, or named arguments:) in the body. Don't make Claude guess what the trailing text means.
  • Input/Output: what does it read (files, MCP data, live command output), what does it produce?
  • Tools: allowed-tools is a pre-approval grant (no permission prompts while active), not a restriction — scope entries tightly, e.g. Bash(git add *) not Bash. Use disallowed-tools to actually remove tools.
  • Where it runs: inline (default — shares conversation context) or context: fork + agent: for isolated, self-contained tasks. Fork only works when the body is an explicit task, not reference guidelines.
  • Data at load time: use dynamic context injection (!`command` at line start) to inline live data (a diff, a status file) before Claude reads the skill.
  • Only set model/effort overrides with a specific reason. Use paths: for skills scoped to certain files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 96 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A d1dc610c1928

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,719 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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