skill-creator

A guide for creating, improving, and testing skills that give coding agents repeatable instructions for specific tasks. It treats a skill as a set of triggers, steps, references, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing new skills, fixing or improving existing ones, adding reference material, defining when a skill should activate, and running evaluations or benchmarks.
Why use it?
It helps turn informal know-how into instructions that are clear, focused, and adaptable to the tools available at runtime. Evaluation steps can reveal whether a skill works reliably before it is used widely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/himself65/finance-skills/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add himself65/finance-skills --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/himself65/finance-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 214 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,122 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00214 $0.03122
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.01561
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00624
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00312

Measured yesterday against content hash b2093073e744, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Is live data reachable? | `curl -s endpoint` | Live data vs cached/default |
plugins/skill-creator/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create, evaluate, and iterate on high-quality agent skills. This skill guides the entire lifecycle: planning what the skill should do, writing SKILL.md and reference files, scoring quality against a rubric, and iterating until the skill meets production standards.

Philosophy: A great skill is not a long skill. It is a precise skill: exhaustive triggers, explicit defaults, clear steps with exit gates, deferred complexity via reference files, and a structured output template.

Core rule — always dynamic, never static: Skills MUST detect what tools, libraries, and auth are available at runtime and adapt their behavior accordingly. Never hardcode a single method. Always provide a detection flow with a decision tree and fallback paths. See references/dynamic-calling.md for the complete pattern catalog.


Step 1: Understand What the User Wants

Classify the request into one of these modes:

User Intent Mode Jump To
Create a brand-new skill Create Step 2
Improve / fix an existing skill Improve Step 6
Evaluate / score a skill's quality Evaluate Step 7

If ambiguous, ask: "Do you want to create a new skill, improve an existing one, or evaluate one?"

Gather Requirements (for Create mode)

Before writing anything, answer these questions (ask the user if unclear):

Question Why it matters
What task does the skill automate? Defines the core workflow
Who is the target user? Determines complexity and terminology level
What tools/APIs/CLIs does it use? Determines dependencies and platform restrictions
What does the user provide as input? Defines parameters and defaults
What should the output look like? Defines the response template
Does it need API keys or credentials? Determines required_environment_variables
Should it work on Claude.ai or only CLI? Determines platform field and dynamic commands

Step 2: Plan the Skill Architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 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 · 286 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A b2093073e744

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository himself65/finance-skills (3,261 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session and 3,122 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.