hk-skill-creator

hk-skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code from deepklarity/harness-kit. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,786 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating and improving coding-agent skills. It uses a repeatable cycle of understanding the task, drafting instructions, testing them, evaluating results, and making improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a skill from scratch, revise an existing skill, run evaluations, compare performance, or improve when the skill activates.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea or rough draft into clearer instructions that an agent can follow reliably. It also provides a way to measure whether a skill works well.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to create a skill from scratch, revise an existing skill, run evaluations, compare performance, or improve when the skill activates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deepklarity/harness-kit/hk-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 deepklarity/harness-kit --skill hk-skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deepklarity/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,786 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 53
    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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00113 $0.02786
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01393
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00279

Measured 9d ago against content hash 625c90ced6b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hk-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/init_skill.py, scripts/validate_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.

.claude/skills/hk-skill-creator/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/hk-skill-creator — Create and Improve Skills

Create new skills and iteratively improve existing ones through a structured draft-test-evaluate-improve loop.

Context

<skill_context> $ARGUMENTS </skill_context>

If the context above describes what skill to create or improve, proceed. If empty or unclear, ask the user what they want the skill to do.

The Core Loop

The process of creating a skill:

  1. Understand what the skill should do, with concrete examples
  2. Draft the SKILL.md and any bundled resources
  3. Test by running Claude-with-the-skill on realistic prompts
  4. Evaluate outputs qualitatively (does it do what the user wants?) and quantitatively (assertions)
  5. Improve based on feedback — generalize, don't overfit
  6. Repeat until the user is satisfied
  7. Optimize the description for reliable triggering

Figure out where the user is in this process and help them progress. Maybe they want a skill from scratch — help narrow intent, draft, test. Maybe they already have a draft — go straight to eval/iterate. Maybe they just want to vibe — be flexible.

Communication Style

Skills are used by people across a wide range of technical familiarity. Pay attention to context cues:

  • "evaluation" and "benchmark" are borderline but OK to use without explanation
  • For "JSON", "assertion", "frontmatter" — look for cues the user knows these before using them without a brief definition
  • When in doubt, briefly explain terms inline
  • Match the user's register — if they're casual, be casual back

Step 1: Capture Intent

Start by understanding what the skill should enable. The conversation might already contain a workflow to capture (e.g., "turn this into a skill"). If so, extract answers from context first — tools used, sequence of steps, corrections made, input/output formats. The user fills gaps, then confirms before proceeding.

Questions to resolve:

  • What should this skill enable Claude to do?
  • When should this skill trigger? (what user phrases/contexts)
  • What's the expected output format or behavior?
  • Are there concrete examples of input/output?

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 230 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 625c90ced6b7

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hk-skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository deepklarity/harness-kit (96 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,786 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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