skill-evaluator

skill-evaluator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gotalab/skillport. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,594 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for agent skills, which are instruction packages that guide coding agents. It checks their structure, names, descriptions, organization, and common quality problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a skill's SKILL.md file, check its required format, and receive scored recommendations for improvement.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to assess whether a skill is clear, valid, and maintainable. It combines an automated validation script with a manual review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to audit a skill's SKILL.md file, check its required format, and receive scored recommendations for improvement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gotalab/skillport/skill-evaluator
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 gotalab/skillport --skill skill-evaluator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/skillport

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.

agentmods badge for skill-evaluator

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gotalab/skillport/skill-evaluator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gotalab/skillport/skill-evaluator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,594 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 $0.00061 $0.01594
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00159

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4aa0fb87d522, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-evaluator 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_skill.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.skills/experimental/skill-evaluator/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Evaluator (WIP)

Evaluates skills against Anthropic's official best practices for agent skill authoring. Produces structured evaluation reports with scores and actionable recommendations.

Quick Start

  1. Read the skill's SKILL.md and understand its purpose
  2. Run automated validation: scripts/validate_skill.py <skill-path>
  3. Perform manual evaluation against criteria below
  4. Generate evaluation report with scores and recommendations

Evaluation Workflow

Step 1: Automated Validation

Run the validation script first:

scripts/validate_skill.py <path/to/skill>

This checks:

  • SKILL.md exists with valid YAML frontmatter
  • Name follows conventions (lowercase, hyphens, max 64 chars)
  • Description is present and under 1024 chars
  • Body is under 500 lines
  • File references are one-level deep

Step 2: Manual Evaluation

Evaluate each dimension and assign a score (1-5):

A. Naming (Weight: 10%)
Score Criteria
5 Gerund form (-ing), clear purpose, memorable
4 Descriptive, follows conventions
3 Acceptable but could be clearer
2 Vague or misleading
1 Violates naming rules

Rules: Max 64 chars, lowercase + numbers + hyphens only, no reserved words (anthropic, claude), no XML tags.

Good: processing-pdfs, analyzing-spreadsheets, building-dashboards Bad: pdf, my-skill, ClaudeHelper, anthropic-tools

B. Description (Weight: 20%)
Score Criteria
5 Clear functionality + specific activation triggers + third person
4 Good description with some triggers
3 Adequate but missing triggers or vague
2 Too brief or unclear purpose
1 Missing or unhelpful

Must include: What the skill does AND when to use it. Good: "Extracts text from PDFs. Use when working with PDF documents for text extraction, form parsing, or content analysis." Bad: "A skill for PDFs." or "Helps with documents."

C. Content Quality (Weight: 30%)

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago First seen · 195 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 4aa0fb87d522

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-evaluator is a skill published in the GitHub repository gotalab/skillport (409 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,594 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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