skillify

skillify is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 53 tokens per session (719 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A method for turning a repeated script, workflow, runbook, or procedure into a reusable instruction file for an AI coding agent. It keeps the general steps and judgment while removing details tied to one specific project or session.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for extracting reusable agent skills from scripts, shell command patterns, runbooks, or procedures that recur across projects.
Why use it?
Repeated manual work is easy to perform inconsistently, and important lessons can be forgotten. Turning the procedure into a skill gives the agent a discoverable process to follow again.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the skillet plugin — 39 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for extracting reusable agent skills from scripts, shell command patterns, runbooks, or procedures that recur across projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/skillify
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 escoffier-labs/skillet --skill skillify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 719 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00053 $0.00719
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00072

Measured 8d ago against content hash 161fe353101c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skillify scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

- Personal, all projects: user skills dir (`~/.claude/skills/` for Claude Code)
skillet/skills/skillify/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skillify

Extract a procedure you keep repeating into a SKILL.md an agent can discover and follow. The input is a script, a shell history pattern, a runbook, or "the thing we just did"; the output is an installable skill.

Is it worth a skill?

Make a skill when the technique was not obvious the first time, will recur across projects, and involves judgment. Do not make a skill for one-off fixes, things a linter or script can fully enforce (automate those instead), or project-specific conventions (those belong in the project's CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md).

Extraction

  1. Find the procedure, not the instance. Strip session-specific paths, names, and values. What survives is the reusable spine: triggers, steps, decision points, failure modes.
  2. Capture the gotchas. The non-obvious parts are the whole value: the flag that silently resets state, the step everyone skips, the error that means something different than it says. Interview the user or mine the transcript for "the thing that bit us".
  3. Decide what stays executable. A script the skill calls beats prose describing the script. Put reusable code in scripts/ next to SKILL.md and have the skill invoke it; keep judgment in the prose.

Format

---
name: verb-first-hyphenated-name   # or the tool's own name when wrapping a named tool
description: Use when [triggering conditions and symptoms only, third person, under 500 chars]
---

# name

One-paragraph overview: what this achieves and the core principle.

## Steps / Pattern (the procedure)
## Rules (the constraints that protect against known failures)
## Common mistakes (what went wrong historically, and the fix)

The description field is load-bearing: agents read it to decide whether to load the skill. Describe WHEN to use it (symptoms, triggers, situations), never summarize the workflow, or agents will follow the one-line summary instead of reading the skill.

Placement

  • Personal, all projects: user skills dir (~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code)
  • One project, shared with the team: .claude/skills/ in the repo
  • Public: a plugin repo with a marketplace manifest

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 8d ago First seen · 59 lines · 53 tokens per session scan B 161fe353101c

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skillify is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 719 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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