skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from himself65/finance-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (3,477 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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

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

Good fit Writing new skills, fixing or improving existing ones, adding reference material, defining when a skill should activate, and running evaluations or benchmarks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/himself65/finance-skills/skill-creator
About the project

Finance Skills is a collection of agent skills for financial analysis and trading, covering activities such as company valuation, earnings research, market analysis, and options calculations. It is for users who want coding agents to perform structured finance workflows, and the catalogue contains its skills, plugins, instructions, and MCP integration.

himself65/finance-skills · 3,414 stars · on GitHub · skills.himself65.com

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 himself65/finance-skills --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/himself65/finance-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin finance-skill-creator — /plugin install finance-skill-creator after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,477 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 25 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 25 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00095 $0.03477
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.01391
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00695
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00348

Measured 20d ago against content hash d957be74044c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 20d 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.

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 · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 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 covers the whole 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 precise, not long. Its description routes the right requests to it. Its body gives the model the context it can't get anywhere else — the environment, tool contracts, defaults, domain judgment, and the reasons behind each constraint — and leaves out what a capable model already does on its own. Current Claude models follow instructions closely and literally, so every line gets acted on: an over-scripted or shouting skill produces rigid, over-cautious output, while a clear goal and quality bar let the model plan the work itself. references/writing-guide.md covers this in detail.

Runtime adaptation: Skills that touch external tools should detect what is installed, authenticated, and reachable at runtime and adapt, rather than assuming a single method. Offer fallback paths where real alternatives exist. See references/dynamic-calling.md for the 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 output contract
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

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. 20d ago Changed · +2 lines · -119 tokens per session d957be74044c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 286 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A b2093073e744

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository himself65/finance-skills (3,414 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 3,477 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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