skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dog-qiuqiu/invincat. It costs 159 tokens per session (4,149 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-creator, MIT.

A guide for creating skills that give a coding agent specialized instructions, workflows, or tool knowledge. It explains where project and user skills are stored and which version takes priority when names conflict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning, scaffolding, updating, and organizing skills for an agent project, including choosing whether a skill belongs to one project or is shared across projects.
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty of designing and installing reusable agent instructions, especially when several skill locations or versions are involved.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Planning, scaffolding, updating, and organizing skills for an agent project, including choosing whether a skill belongs to one project or is shared across projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dog-qiuqiu/invincat/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 dog-qiuqiu/invincat --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dog-qiuqiu/invincat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 159 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,149 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00159 $0.04149
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.02074
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00830
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00415

Measured 11d ago against content hash b1613e0ba94a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d ago.

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

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to skill-creator — 141 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

invincat_cli/built_in_skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 384 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 384 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Skill Location for Invincat

Invincat CLI loads skills from five sources, listed here from lowest to highest precedence:

# Directory Scope Notes
0 <package>/built_in_skills/ Built-in Ships with Invincat CLI
1 ~/.invincat/<agent>/skills/ User (deepagents alias) Default for invincat-cli skills create
2 ~/.agents/skills/ User Shared across agent tools
3 .invincat/skills/ Project (deepagents alias) Default for invincat-cli skills create --project
4 .agents/skills/ Project Shared across agent tools

<agent> is the agent configuration name (default: agent). When two directories contain a skill with the same name, the higher-precedence version wins — project skills override user skills, and any user or project skill overrides built-in skills.

Example directory layout:

~/.invincat/agent/skills/     # user skills (lowest precedence)
├── skill-name-1/
│   └── SKILL.md
└── ...

<project-root>/.invincat/skills/   # project skills (higher precedence)
├── skill-name-2/
│   └── SKILL.md
└── ...

Core Principles

Concise is Key

The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else the agent needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.

Default assumption: The agent is already very capable. Only add context the agent doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does the agent really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?"

Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.

Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom

Match the level of specificity to the task's fragility and variability:

High freedom (text-based instructions): Use when multiple approaches are valid, decisions depend on context, or heuristics guide the approach.

Medium freedom (pseudocode or scripts with parameters): Use when a preferred pattern exists, some variation is acceptable, or configuration affects behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 384 lines

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 · 384 lines · 159 tokens per session scan A b1613e0ba94a

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository dog-qiuqiu/invincat (155 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 159 tokens to every session and 4,149 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to skill-creator, differing in 141 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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