add-skill

add-skill is a skill for Claude Code from joelhooks/joelclaw. It costs 73 tokens per session (343 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for creating reusable joelclaw skills, including how they are stored, linked, tracked in Git, and recorded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or formalizing a skill for a recurring process or a specific area of work.
Why use it?
It gives new skills a consistent home and process instead of leaving them as one-off instructions that are hard to maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when adding or formalizing a skill for a recurring process or a specific area of work.

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

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 343 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 unknown 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 $0.00073 $0.00343
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00137
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00034

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3e8406122628, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-skill 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 1mo 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/add-skill/SKILL.md · 23 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago Changed · -121 lines 3e8406122628
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 144 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 56117b5fbec0

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add-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository joelhooks/joelclaw (64 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 343 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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