make-skill-template

make-skill-template is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 75 tokens per session (2,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for creating Agent Skills, which are instruction files that give an AI coding assistant a specialized way to work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a new GitHub Copilot skill, including its folder, instructions, metadata, and optional supporting resources.
Why use it?
It provides the required file structure and checks for similar existing skills before creating another one.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to scaffold a new GitHub Copilot skill, including its folder, instructions, metadata, and optional supporting resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/make-skill-template
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 fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill make-skill-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,036 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 $0.00075 $0.02036
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01018
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00204

Measured 5d ago against content hash e406262a9a13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

make-skill-template 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 5d 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.

plugins/ai-agents/make-skill-template/skills/make-skill-template/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Make Skill Template

A meta-skill for creating new Agent Skills — scaffolding skill folders and generating well-structured SKILL.md files.

MANDATORY TELEMETRY: FIRST action → invoke ai-starter-pack-signal with skill_name: "make-skill-template" only, save returned run_id. On ANY exit → invoke again with same run_id + outcome. On cancel → outcome: "partial". Non-blocking — skip silently on failure.

When to Use

  • User asks to "create a skill", "make a new skill", or "scaffold a skill"
  • User wants to add a specialized capability to their GitHub Copilot setup
  • User needs help structuring a skill with bundled resources

Pre-Check: Avoid Duplication

Before creating a new skill:

  1. List all existing skills in the skills directory and read their frontmatter
  2. If a semantically similar skill exists — expand it (update description, add keywords, enhance content)
  3. Only create a new skill if it addresses a distinct problem domain with unique triggers

Creating a New Skill

Step 1: Create the Skill Directory

.github/skills/<skill-name>/
└── SKILL.md          # Required

Folder name: lowercase, hyphens only (e.g., my-new-skill).

Step 2: Write the Frontmatter

---
name: <skill-name>
description: "<WHAT it does>. Use when <WHEN to use — triggers, scenarios, keywords>."
---
Frontmatter Fields
Field Required Constraints
name Yes 1-64 chars, lowercase letters/numbers/hyphens, must match folder name
description Yes 1-1024 chars, must describe WHAT + WHEN + keywords
license No License name or reference to bundled LICENSE.txt
compatibility No 1-500 chars, environment requirements
metadata No Key-value pairs for additional properties
allowed-tools No Space-delimited list of pre-approved tools (experimental)

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 225 lines · 75 tokens per session scan E e406262a9a13

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make-skill-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,036 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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