example-skill

example-skill is a skill for Claude Code from dmgrok/mcp_mother_skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (345 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An example skill file that demonstrates how to write instructions for a coding agent. It shows the required file format, clear steps, examples, guidelines, and optional supporting resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the expected SKILL.md structure, write more specific instructions, add examples, and understand where scripts, templates, or other resources can be placed.
Why use it?
It gives developers a concrete reference when creating or reviewing their own agent skill instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mother-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn the expected SKILL.md structure, write more specific instructions, add examples, and understand where scripts, templates, or other resources can be placed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dmgrok/mcp_mother_skills/example-skill
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 dmgrok/mcp_mother_skills --skill example-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmgrok/mcp_mother_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mother-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 345 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 $0.00025 $0.00345
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 9d ago against content hash 44bfea53057a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

example-skill 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.

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.

examples/skills/example-skill/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Example Skill

This is an example skill that demonstrates the SKILL.md format used by Claude and GitHub Copilot.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • You need to understand the skill file format
  • You're creating a new skill
  • You want to see best practices for skill documentation

Core Instructions

  1. Always use YAML frontmatter at the top of the file with at least name and description
  2. Write clear, actionable instructions in the markdown body
  3. Include examples to demonstrate expected behavior
  4. List guidelines for consistent results

Examples

Good Skill Instruction

When creating a new React component:
1. Use functional components with hooks
2. Define props interface with TypeScript
3. Export as named export for better tree-shaking

Bad Skill Instruction

Make good components.

Guidelines

  • Keep instructions specific and actionable
  • Include code examples where helpful
  • Reference related skills in dependencies
  • Use consistent formatting throughout
  • Test the skill with various prompts

Resources

You can include additional files in a resources/ subdirectory:

  • Scripts for automation
  • Templates for code generation
  • Configuration files
  • typescript - For TypeScript-specific patterns
  • react - For React component patterns
  • testing - For testing best practices
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 · 63 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 44bfea53057a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

example-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository dmgrok/mcp_mother_skills (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 345 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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