claude-code-skills

claude-code-skills is a skill for Claude Code from emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins. It costs 62 tokens per session (3,271 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating Agent Skills in Claude Code. These are self-contained instruction packages that give the coding agent specialized knowledge, repeatable workflows, tool connections, or supporting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or update a skill, define its required SKILL.md file, connect tools, and organize optional scripts, references, and other bundled resources.
Why use it?
It helps turn repeated domain-specific instructions into a reusable package instead of explaining the same process in every conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to design or update a skill, define its required SKILL.md file, connect tools, and organize optional scripts, references, and other bundled resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins/claude-code-skills
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 emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins --skill claude-code-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,271 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 $0.00062 $0.03271
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01308
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00327

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c00abae4eb11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-skills 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/init_skill.py, scripts/package_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.

plugins/claude-code-meta/skills/claude-code-skills/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Skills Creator

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for creating effective Agent Skills in Claude Code, including plugin integration.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.

What Skills Provide

  1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
  2. Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
  3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
  4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks

Anatomy of a Skill

Every skill consists of a required SKILL.md file and optional bundled resources:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│   ├── YAML frontmatter metadata (required)
│   │   ├── name: (required)
│   │   └── description: (required)
│   └── Markdown instructions (required)
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
    ├── scripts/          - Executable code (Python/Bash/etc.)
    ├── references/       - Documentation intended to be loaded into context as needed
    └── assets/           - Files used in output (templates, icons, fonts, etc.)
SKILL.md (required)

Metadata Quality: The name and description in YAML frontmatter determine when Claude will use the skill. Be specific about what the skill does and when to use it. Use the third-person (e.g. "This skill should be used when..." instead of "Use this skill when...").

Claude Code-specific frontmatter fields:

  • allowed-tools (optional, Claude Code only): Comma-separated list of tools Claude can use when this skill is active. Restricts tool access for security or to keep the skill focused. See references/allowed-tools-guide.md for comprehensive guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 1mo ago First seen · 348 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A c00abae4eb11

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository emdashcodes/claude-code-plugins (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,271 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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