Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to greenpau/go-authcrunch. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/greenpau/go-authcrunch/main/.codex/skills/skill-authoring/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/greenpau/go-authcrunchWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/greenpau/go-authcrunch/skill-authoring)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/greenpau/go-authcrunch/skill-authoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/greenpau/go-authcrunch/skill-authoring/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/greenpau/go-authcrunch/skill-authoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/greenpau/go-authcrunch/skill-authoring.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00058 | $0.01875 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00750 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00375 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00187 |
Grade A, and why
skill-authoring 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skill Authoring
Inherit the default authoring workflow
Use the installed $skill-creator skill to apply the default authoring workflow. Read it completely and apply its initialization, naming, frontmatter, progressive-disclosure, metadata, validation, and testing guidance.
Apply this skill after $skill-creator. Where the two differ, retain the default requirements and add the repository hierarchy and engineering-contract requirements below.
Read AuthCrunch authoring conventions for repository-specific configuration, knowledge placement, metadata, and validation requirements. These supplement the authoring and routing contracts here; where they differ, this skill's contracts take precedence.
Build a routed skill hierarchy
Store every discoverable skill as a direct child of .codex/skills/<skill-name>/; do not nest discoverable skill directories inside one another.
Express hierarchy as actionable routing at any depth:
AGENTS.md --Use A to do X--> skill A --Use B to do Y--> skill B --> ...
Write each repo-local route in this form:
Use [skill-name](relative/path/to/SKILL.md) to perform a specific task.
Make the action specific enough that an agent can decide whether to load the linked skill. Put routes to broad skills in AGENTS.md. Put routes to narrower skills in the broad skill that delegates the work. A leaf skill needs no hierarchy boilerplate.
Do not add structural ancestry sections or require a downstream skill to link back to its router. The forward Use ... to ... statements define the hierarchy.
Read the skill routing contract when creating, moving, routing, or auditing a skill.
For a repository-wide review, read the audit workflow. It covers every skill and supporting resource, semantic routing, source/test evidence, metadata, configuration gaps, and truthful validation reporting.
Treat cross-skill references that do not tell the agent to use a skill for a task as supporting links, not hierarchy routes.
What ships with it
4 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 172 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 5261c212cee3
skill-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository greenpau/go-authcrunch (60 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,875 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-27.
skill-authoring compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| skill-authoringgreenpau/go-authcrunch | Skill | 60 | 10d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 58 | Codex |
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| systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers | Skill | 313k | 3d ago | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
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| next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js | Skill | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 103 | Claude Code |