crafting-readme-files

crafting-readme-files is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dicklesworthstone/meta_skill. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,148 once invoked), scanned D, original, no licence file.

A README-writing guide for GitHub open-source projects. It helps create or revise the main project document, including installation steps, feature tables, and architecture diagrams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a command-line tool, library, or other open-source project, or to improve README sections, badges, and layout.
Why use it?
It removes the need to plan README structure and write common documentation sections from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to document a command-line tool, library, or other open-source project, or to improve README sections, badges, and layout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dicklesworthstone/meta_skill/crafting-readme-files
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 Dicklesworthstone/meta_skill --skill crafting-readme-files
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/meta_skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for crafting-readme-files

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,148 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00067 $0.03148
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01574
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00630
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00315

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8039b6806dd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

crafting-readme-files scanned grade D with 3 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 11d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

curl -fsSL https://... | sudo bash -s -- --system

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

└─ Quick install (curl | bash)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

- Miss the "quick escape hatch" for impatient users (curl one-liner)
skills/crafting-readme-files/SKILL.md · 513 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 11d ago First seen · 513 lines · 67 tokens per session scan D 8039b6806dd3

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crafting-readme-files is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dicklesworthstone/meta_skill (195 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,148 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.