Write a Skill

Write a Skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,492 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for creating new skills for coding agents through a requirements interview and a structured SKILL.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create skills for Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex CLI, including optional scripts and reference documents.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea into an installable skill with clear triggers and supporting files. It reduces the chance of missing important design requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It helps create skills for Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex CLI, including optional scripts and reference documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree/write-a
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 gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree --skill write-a
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,492 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 unknown 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 $0.00076 $0.01492
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00149

Measured 2d ago against content hash e11d8c1450a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Write a 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 2d 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.

registry/named/mattpocock/write-a-skill.md · 128 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago Changed · +10 lines e11d8c1450a9
  2. 5d ago First seen · 118 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 6534476dbc14

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Write a Skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaia-research/gaia-skill-tree (19 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,492 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 2026-09-04.

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