author-skill

author-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fl-sean03/OpenSDL. It costs 39 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for creating or changing a reusable instruction set for coding agents in an OpenSDL repository. It covers when the instruction applies, what it does, the supporting files it needs, and how to test it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, revise, split, or remove a repository skill, connect it to Claude Code, validate its files, and test both matching and non-matching requests.
Why use it?
It helps recurring agent tasks become consistent, discoverable, and safe to reuse. It also checks that the instruction is selected for the right requests and not for nearby but different work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fl-sean03/opensdl/author-skill
Any agent
npx skills add fl-sean03/OpenSDL --skill author-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fl-sean03/OpenSDL

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00039 $0.00368
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00184
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 5d ago against content hash 29fe35fa13c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

author-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 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.

.agents/skills/author-skill/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Author a repository skill

Inputs

  • recurring job and intended users
  • three positive trigger requests
  • two nearby requests that should select a different skill or no skill
  • supported commands, inputs, outputs, evidence, and stop conditions

Procedure

  1. Read docs/development/agent-skills.md and the nearest .agents/AGENTS.md.
  2. Place durable global rules in AGENTS.md, concepts in documentation, exact behavior in typed tooling, and equipment procedures in a reviewed lab runbook.
  3. Create or revise one canonical directory under .agents/skills/.
  4. Keep SKILL.md focused on one job. Add only the supporting references, scripts, or assets that the procedure needs.
  5. Use portable name and description frontmatter. State what the skill does and when it applies.
  6. Reference every supporting file and every command that the procedure depends on.
  7. Add or update the matching .claude/skills/ symlink.
  8. Run uv run --locked python scripts/validate-repository.py and the procedure's own tests.
  9. Forward-test positive selection, negative selection, representative execution, and continuing work in a dirty worktree.

Completion

The canonical skill validates, both supported harnesses discover it, its commands exist, and fresh tests show correct selection and completion behavior.

Stop conditions

Stop if the proposed procedure depends on a planned command, duplicates operational authority, or would store credentials, conversation transcripts, or mutable runtime state in Git.

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 · 39 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 29fe35fa13c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

author-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository fl-sean03/OpenSDL (102 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 368 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 2026-08-30.

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