guide

guide is a skill for Claude Code from hanyuancheung/llm-skill. It costs 1 tokens per session (893 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing and maintenance guide for a collection of coding skills. It keeps one AGENT.md file that tells the system which skill to use for each task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Review a skill collection, check its metadata, find skills that could be merged, and flag skills that need repair, promotion, or removal.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated instructions and helps tasks reach the right skill with only the necessary context. It also identifies inconsistent, overlapping, or outdated skill definitions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hanyuancheung/llm-skill/guide
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 hanyuancheung/llm-skill --skill guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hanyuancheung/llm-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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 guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hanyuancheung/llm-skill/guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hanyuancheung/llm-skill/guide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hanyuancheung/llm-skill/guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hanyuancheung/llm-skill/guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 1 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 893 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 $0.00001 $0.00893
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00089

Measured 7d ago against content hash ab2e5c3f1c68, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guide 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.

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/guide/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

guide — Guidance Meta-Skill

What

Maintain the single Schema file AGENT.md so that execute always routes to the right skill with the minimum information possible.

Guide does not create domain knowledge; it organizes and routes.

When to use

  • distill has just done Create / Merge / Deprecate.
  • ✅ User asks to "tidy up skills / find merge candidates".
  • ✅ Periodic review (e.g. every N completed tasks).

When NOT to use

  • ❌ Domain questions themselves (those belong to execute).
  • ❌ Internal edits to a single SKILL.md (those belong to distill).

How (SOP)

1. Scan the skill set

ls skills/*/SKILL.md

Parse only the front-matter of each file (skip the body). Collect: name, status, triggers, dependencies, updated.

2. Consistency checks (Schema guard)

Check Action
Missing front-matter field Mark as malformed, notify distill to fix
name differs from directory name Error, require fix
triggers fully overlap another skill Suggest Merge
status: experimental for > 2 reuse cycles with no promotion Suggest promote or deprecate
status: deprecated kept for > 1 cycle Suggest deletion
dependencies point to a non-existent skill Error

3. Update AGENT.md

May edit only:

  • §2.1 / §2.2 registry (add/remove/modify rows).
  • §7 changelog (append a line).

All other sections (loop definition, contract, anti-patterns) are stable; changes require explicit user confirmation.

4. Produce a diff summary

After each guide run, report to user:

Added:       skills/xxx   (from distill, experimental)
Promoted:    skills/yyy   experimental → active
Deprecated:  skills/zzz   (90 days cold)

5. Reverse-notify

If a skill has weak triggers (never matches), reverse-suggest distill to rewrite them.

Examples

After distill creates debug-cuda-oom

  1. Scan finds a new directory skills/debug-cuda-oom.
  2. Front-matter is valid.
  3. Append to AGENT.md §2.2:
    | debug-cuda-oom | skills/debug-cuda-oom/SKILL.md | CUDA, OOM, VRAM | experimental |
    
  4. Append to AGENT.md §7: - 2026-05-02 — registered debug-cuda-oom (experimental)
  5. Report to user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 101 lines · 1 tokens per session scan A ab2e5c3f1c68

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guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository hanyuancheung/llm-skill (22 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1 tokens to every session and 893 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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