CreateSkill

A required manager for the full lifecycle of LifeOS Skills, from creating their structure to checking, testing, and improving them. A Skill is a reusable set of instructions that guides an AI agent through a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating, editing, renaming, validating, standardizing, or adding workflows and tools to a LifeOS Skill.
Why use it?
It prevents Skills from being created inconsistently or without validation. It keeps structural changes and improvements within one controlled process.

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/danielmiessler/lifeos/createskill
Any agent
npx skills add danielmiessler/LifeOS --skill createskill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,763 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00146 $0.06763
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.03381
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.01353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00676

Measured 2d ago against content hash b30b07e32eb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

CreateSkill scanned grade C with 2 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 2d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

- `/careful` — Intercept dangerous commands (rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-push)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
LifeOS/install/skills/CreateSkill/SKILL.md · 515 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 515 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Customization

Before executing, check for user customizations at: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/CreateSkill/

If this directory exists, load and apply any PREFERENCES.md, configurations, or resources found there. These override default behavior. If the directory does not exist, proceed with skill defaults.

🚨 MANDATORY: Voice Notification (REQUIRED BEFORE ANY ACTION)

You MUST send this notification BEFORE doing anything else when this skill is invoked.

  1. Send voice notification:

    curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow in the CreateSkill skill to ACTION"}' \
      > /dev/null 2>&1 &
    
  2. Output text notification:

    Running the **WorkflowName** workflow in the **CreateSkill** skill to ACTION...
    

This is not optional. Execute this curl command immediately upon skill invocation.

CreateSkill

Complete skill development lifecycle: structure (create, validate, canonicalize) + effectiveness (test, improve, optimize triggers). Structural workflows ensure skills follow LifeOS conventions. Effectiveness workflows — inspired by Anthropic's skill-creator — ensure skills actually work and trigger reliably.

Authoritative Source

Before creating ANY skill, READ: ~/.claude/LIFEOS/DOCUMENTATION/Skills/SkillSystem.md

Canonical example to follow: any well-formed public skill in ~/.claude/skills/ (e.g. Research/SKILL.md, Daemon/SKILL.md, CreateSkill/SKILL.md itself).

Naming Convention — Public vs Private

Skill name encodes its public/private status. There are exactly two valid forms.

Skill type Directory format Example Allowed content
Public TitleCase Blogging, Daemon, CreateSkill Templated, safe, generic, ready for public release
Private _ALLCAPS (underscore prefix, all uppercase) _MYSKILL, _MYINBOX, _MYINFRA Personal-scoped function; body publishable-clean, all sensitive data referenced from LIFEOS/USER/

Read the full file on GitHub · 515 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 2d ago First seen · 515 lines · 146 tokens per session scan C b30b07e32eb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

CreateSkill is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielmiessler/LifeOS (18,798 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 6,763 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, 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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