creating-agent-skills-skill

creating-agent-skills-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,033 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of creating-agent-skills-skill, MIT.

A guide to creating Agent Skills packages in the SKILL.md format used by coding agents. It explains the standard file structure and validation rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or packaging a new skill for Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot, or Amp.
Why use it?
It helps you make skills that follow the expected format and can be shared across supported coding tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when building or packaging a new skill for Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot, or Amp.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/creating-agent-skills-skill
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 gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror --skill creating-agent-skills-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,033 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00049 $0.01033
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00103

Measured 8d ago against content hash a636f3f499bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-agent-skills-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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to creating-agent-skills-skill — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mirrors/repos/AgentWorkforce@relay/.agents/skills/creating-agent-skills-skill/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Agent Skills

Use when creating Agent Skills packages (SKILL.md format) for Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot, or Amp - provides the agentskills.io specification with frontmatter constraints, directory structure, and validation rules

Overview

Agent Skills is an open standard for portable AI agent capabilities. One SKILL.md file works across Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Amp.

Official Spec: https://agentskills.io/specification

Installation Directories

Tool Location
Codex CLI .agents/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md
GitHub Copilot .github/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md
Amp .agents/skills/{skill-name}/SKILL.md

Directory Structure

```
my-skill/                 # Must match frontmatter `name`
├── SKILL.md              # Required - main definition
├── scripts/              # Optional - executable code
├── references/           # Optional - additional docs
└── assets/               # Optional - static resources

Frontmatter Specification

Required Fields
---
name: skill-name
description: What it does and when to use it
---
Optional Fields
---
name: pdf-processing
description: Extracts and processes PDF content. Use for document analysis and text extraction.
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires pdftotext, poppler-utils
allowed-tools: Bash(pdftotext:*) Read Write
metadata:
  category: document-processing
  version: 1.0.0
---

Name Validation

```
✅ Valid: pdf-processing, code-review, data-analysis
❌ Invalid: PDF-Processing (uppercase), -pdf (leading hyphen), pdf--processing (consecutive hyphens)

Description Best Practices

```yaml
# ❌ BAD - Too vague
description: Helps with PDFs

# ❌ BAD - Missing use cases
description: Extracts text from PDFs

# ✅ GOOD - Functionality + use cases
description: Extracts and processes PDF content. Use for document analysis, text extraction, and form data parsing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 8d ago First seen · 181 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A a636f3f499bb

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creating-agent-skills-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,033 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to creating-agent-skills-skill, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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