install-external-skills

install-external-skills is a skill for Claude Code from jamesyang124/agent-skills. It costs 92 tokens per session (2,671 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive installer for skills from several external agent-skill registries. It reads the project's configuration and suggests skills that match its language, framework, infrastructure, or database.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find and install matching skills from supported registries for projects using tools such as Terraform, Supabase, or particular web frameworks.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of searching through unrelated skill lists and installing tools one by one. Without a project config file, it can only show the available skills without project-specific recommendations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to find and install matching skills from supported registries for projects using tools such as Terraform, Supabase, or particular web frameworks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamesyang124/agent-skills/install-external-skills
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 jamesyang124/agent-skills --skill install-external-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamesyang124/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,671 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.
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 $0.00092 $0.02671
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01336
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00267

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9a8ebab11c08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-external-skills 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 10d 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.

allowed-tools: Bash(npx *), Bash(curl *), Bash(node *), Bash(cat *), Bash(echo *), Bash(printf *), Bash(which *)
.agent-settings/skills/playground/install-external-skills/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install External Skills

Reads your project config to recommend best-fit skills, fetches the latest registry info from GitHub, and installs your selection via npx skills add.

Usage

/install-external-skills

Arguments

None. Fully interactive — the skill reads .agent-settings/project-config.md, then prompts for registry selection (Phase 1) and skill selection (Phase 3).


Phase 0 — Read Project Config

Check for .agent-settings/project-config.md:

cat .agent-settings/project-config.md 2>/dev/null

If the file exists: read it and extract:

  • language / framework (e.g. Go/Gin, Node/Next.js, Python/FastAPI)
  • infrastructure or iac fields if present (e.g. Terraform, OpenTofu)
  • database fields (e.g. Postgres/Supabase)
  • Any other tooling signals

Use these signals in Phase 2 to determine which skills are best-fit for this project. Do NOT show a generic list of all skills — lead with recommendations.

If the file does not exist: print this message before continuing:

⚠ No project config found at .agent-settings/project-config.md

  Without it, I can only show all available skills without project-specific
  recommendations. Consider running /setup-project-config first to generate it.

  → https://github.com/your-org/agent-settings (setup-project-config skill)

Continue without project config? (y/n)
  • Blank input: re-prompt — must type y or n.
  • n → stop and instruct the user to run /setup-project-config first.
  • y → proceed to Phase 1 in "browse all" mode (no recommendations).

Phase 1 — Registry Selection

Present the supported registries. If project config was read, pre-select registries that are relevant based on the detected stack and note why:

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  External Skill Registries
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  [1] supabase/agent-skills                              ★ recommended
      Supabase Agent Skills — Postgres, Auth, Supabase tooling.
      → https://github.com/supabase/agent-skills

  [2] vercel-labs/agent-skills
      Vercel's official collection — React, Next.js, deployment, UI.
      → https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills

  [3] antonbabenko/terraform-skill
      Terraform & OpenTofu — testing, modules, CI/CD, security patterns.
      → https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-skill

  [0] Cancel

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Select registries to browse (space-separated, e.g. 1 3), or 0 to cancel:

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 244 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 9a8ebab11c08

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install-external-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamesyang124/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 2,671 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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