elizaos-character-builder

elizaos-character-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from greedychipmunk/agent-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating, reviewing, and updating elizaOS character configurations. These configurations define an agent's persona, conversation examples, document sources, plugins, and settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write character.json or character.ts, customise an agent's role and voice, migrate older examples, and investigate character validation errors.
Why use it?
It helps keep the character format compatible with the installed elizaOS version and prevents personality text from being mistaken for permissions or proof that the agent runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to write character.json or character.ts, customise an agent's role and voice, migrate older examples, and investigate character validation errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/greedychipmunk/agent-skills/elizaos-character-builder
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 greedychipmunk/agent-skills --skill elizaos-character-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greedychipmunk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 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 $0.00087 $0.01169
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00117

Measured yesterday against content hash 61f3f60382c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elizaos-character-builder 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_character.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.

elizaos-character-builder/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

elizaOS Character Builder

Turn a role description or existing character into a small, version-correct configuration. Personality text does not grant permissions; parsing does not prove an agent is operational.

1. Identify the contract

Read the project's AGENTS.md, manifest, lockfile, entry point, and installed @elizaos/core exports/types. Identify the destination: a core Character, a host configuration's narrower character subsection, or a published 1.x project with its own CLI and loader. Read contracts.

The researched source is a 2.x develop snapshot, not npm's latest release. Public tutorials still show older APIs. Prefer the target's installed types, schema and loader. Do not install a global CLI, upgrade packages or rewrite a loader merely to match this skill. Preserve existing IDs and unrelated work.

2. Design the persona

Infer role, audience, voice and boundaries from the request and code. Ask only about a missing decision that changes implementation. Read persona and evaluation. Start with the matching asset: core character or host subsection.

Use a short bio, useful topics, consistent style and examples for normal help, uncertainty, out-of-scope requests and actions requiring authorization. Examples illustrate behavior; they are not training runs or permission grants. Never invent real qualifications, customer facts, integrations or capabilities.

For current core TypeScript, use import type { Character } from '@elizaos/core' and satisfies Character against the installed package. Prefer the canonical bio: string[] and messageExamples: [{ examples: [...] }] form. Do not put plugins, settings or documents into a host character subsection just because those fields are valid in a core character.

3. Wire capabilities separately

Read capabilities and secrets. Reuse the host's existing, explicit composition of compatible storage, model and feature plugins. A package name in JSON does not install a dependency, register a model, ingest documents or grant connector access. Do not assume bootstrap/sql/model plugins are always implicit, or a generic settings.model selects a provider.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. yesterday First seen · 109 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 61f3f60382c6

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elizaos-character-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository greedychipmunk/agent-skills (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-16.

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