writing-a-skill

writing-a-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dp-web4/SAGE. It costs 0 tokens per session (394 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A procedure for writing and saving a reusable skill: a set of steps worked out for a recurring situation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a repeatable process into instructions that a later coding agent can find and follow.
Why use it?
It keeps useful solutions from being forgotten when the same task appears again.

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 turn a repeatable process into instructions that a later coding agent can find and follow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dp-web4/sage/writing-a-skill
View source ↗ dp-web4/SAGE
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 dp-web4/SAGE --skill writing-a-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dp-web4/SAGE

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.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 394 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 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 $0.00000 $0.00394
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00039

Measured 15d ago against content hash 6f8eed66136a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-a-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 15d 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.

sage/gateway/skills/writing-a-skill/SKILL.md · 28 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 15d ago Changed · +4 lines 6f8eed66136a
  2. 16d ago First seen · 24 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c3f325f46eb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-a-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository dp-web4/SAGE (28 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 394 tokens. 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 2026-10-28.

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