example

A sample skill file that shows how an agent add-on is described and loaded when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the format for creating skills in a skills/{name}/SKILL.md file.
Why use it?
It gives developers a small, concrete example of the required file layout, metadata, and loading process.

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/ivan-magda/swift-coding-agent/example
Any agent
npx skills add ivan-magda/swift-coding-agent --skill example
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivan-magda/swift-coding-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 157 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00010 $0.00157
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9313132c5a03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

example 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 2d 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/example/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

This is a sample skill file. Skills are stored in skills/{name}/SKILL.md and provide specialized knowledge that the agent can load on demand via the load_skill tool.

Frontmatter

Each skill file starts with YAML frontmatter between --- delimiters:

  • name (optional): defaults to the parent directory name
  • description (required): one-line summary shown in the system prompt

Usage

The agent sees skill names and descriptions in its system prompt. When it needs the full content, it calls load_skill with the skill name. The body below the frontmatter is returned wrapped in <skill> tags.

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. 2d ago First seen · 22 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 9313132c5a03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

example is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivan-magda/swift-coding-agent (178 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 157 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

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