using-skillet

using-skillet is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A startup workflow for finding and using the right coding-agent skill before doing any work. It treats skills as prepared instructions for particular kinds of tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of every conversation to check whether another skill applies and invoke it before responding or acting. If no skill fits, continue without one.
Why use it?
It helps route a request to the appropriate instructions early, including when the task is only a question or a quick inspection. This reduces the chance of missing a required workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it at the beginning of every conversation to check whether another skill applies and invoke it before responding or acting. If no skill fits, continue without one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/using-skillet
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 using-skillet
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.

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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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,864 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 $0.00031 $0.01864
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00186

Measured 10d ago against content hash f869efb842ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-skillet 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 10d 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.

skillet/skills/using-skillet/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

using-skillet

A kitchen runs on mise en place: everything in its place before service, every cook reaching for the same prepped components instead of improvising. skillet is that prep for an AI coding session. The skills are the prepped stations; this skill is the line check that runs before you touch anything, deciding which station the current task belongs to and sending you there before you start cooking.

The rule

Invoke the relevant or requested skill BEFORE any response or action, including before clarifying questions and before "just looking." Even a 1% chance a skill applies means you invoke it to check. If it turns out wrong for the situation, you drop it; checking costs nothing, skipping costs a botched dish.

user message or task
  -> about to design/build something new? -> mise (then recipe) BEFORE anything else
  -> might any other skill apply? (yes, even 1%) -> invoke it
     -> announce: "Using skillet's <skill> to <purpose>"
     -> follow it exactly; if it has a checklist, make a todo per item
  -> definitely nothing applies -> respond

Instruction priority

skillet skills override default system behavior where they conflict, but the user always wins:

  1. User instructions (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, direct requests) - highest.
  2. skillet skills - override default behavior.
  3. Default system prompt - lowest.

If the user's instructions say to do something a skill discourages, follow the user. They are in control.

How to load skills

Never read a skill's SKILL.md by hand with file tools; load it through your platform's skill mechanism so it activates properly. In Claude Code, use the Skill tool. In Codex and OpenClaw, skills load natively, follow them as presented. The skill names below are lowercase and match how you invoke them (e.g. skillet:mise).

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 10d ago First seen · 135 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f869efb842ff

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using-skillet is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,864 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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