skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and improving coding-agent skills, which are instruction packages that add specialised behaviour to an agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a skill, update an existing one, write test cases, run evaluations, compare versions, or improve a skill's description.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable process for capturing requirements, writing instructions, testing them, reviewing results, and improving when the skill triggers or performs poorly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,218 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00074 $0.02218
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01109
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00222

Measured 5d ago against content hash 517cd7106109, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (eval-viewer/generate_review.py, scripts/aggregate_benchmark.py, scripts/init_skill.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.

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.

.agents/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 249 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create and improve skills following the Agent Skills specification. A skill extends agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools.

When to Use

  • User wants to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill
  • Need to run evals to test a skill or benchmark performance
  • Even if they just say "create a skill" or "optimize this skill's description"

Core Loop

  1. Capture intent - What should the skill do? When should it trigger?
  2. Write draft - Create SKILL.md with frontmatter and instructions
  3. Create test cases - Realistic prompts users would actually say
  4. Run evals - Test with-skill vs baseline (or old version)
  5. Review results - Use eval-viewer for human review + benchmarks
  6. Iterate - Improve based on feedback until satisfied
  7. Optimize description - Fine-tune frontmatter for better triggering

Skill Specification

Directory Structure

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md          # Required: metadata + instructions
├── scripts/          # Optional: executable code
├── references/       # Optional: documentation
├── assets/           # Optional: templates, resources
├── agents/           # Optional: subagent instructions
├── eval-viewer/      # Optional: review page generation
└── evals/            # Optional: test cases

Frontmatter Fields

Field Required Constraints
name Yes Max 64 chars. Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens only.
description Yes Max 1024 chars. Describes what the skill does AND when to use it.
license No License name or reference to bundled license file.
compatibility No Max 500 chars. Environment requirements.
metadata No Arbitrary key-value mapping.
allowed-tools No Space-delimited list of pre-approved tools.

SKILL.md Body

  • Keep under 250 lines
  • Use progressive disclosure: move detailed content to references/
  • Include step-by-step instructions, examples, and common edge cases
  • Mandatory: Include ## Rationalizations table to counter common agent excuses
  • Mandatory: Include ## Red Flags checklist for early warning behaviors

Read the full file on GitHub · 249 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. 5d ago First seen · 249 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 517cd7106109

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,218 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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