create-skill

A skill for creating Claude Code agent skills, which are reusable instructions Claude can apply when a task matches their description. It creates the required folder and SKILL.md file, with optional examples or templates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a new model-invoked skill and define when Claude should use it.
Why use it?
It removes the need to remember the required skill structure and metadata when adding a new skill.

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/jpoutrin/product-forge/create-skill
Any agent
npx skills add jpoutrin/product-forge --skill create-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpoutrin/product-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 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 $0.00056 $0.01071
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00107

Measured 2d ago against content hash db77024f7faf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 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.

plugins/claude-code-dev/skills/create-skill/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create Skill Skill

Create new Claude Code agent skills that Claude invokes autonomously based on task context.

Skill Structure

Each skill lives in its own folder within skills/:

skills/
└── skill-name/
    ├── SKILL.md              # Main skill definition (required)
    ├── examples/             # Example files (optional)
    │   └── example.md
    └── templates/            # Templates (optional)
        └── template.md

SKILL.md Format

---
name: skill-name
description: When and how Claude should use this skill. Be specific about triggers and use cases.
user-invocable: false
---

# Skill Title

Detailed instructions for how to apply this skill...

Required Frontmatter Fields

Field Description Example
name Unique identifier (kebab-case) python-best-practices
description When Claude should invoke this skill Apply Python best practices when writing or reviewing Python code. Use for type hints, docstrings, and PEP compliance.

Optional Frontmatter Fields

Field Description Default Example
user-invocable Whether users can invoke skill with /skill-name true false for knowledge skills, true for action skills

Writing Effective Descriptions

The description is critical - it tells Claude when to use the skill. Include:

  1. Trigger conditions: When should this skill activate?
  2. Use cases: What tasks benefit from this skill?
  3. Scope: What does and doesn't this skill cover?

Good Description Examples

description: Apply React best practices when creating or modifying React components. Use for hooks, state management, component structure, and performance optimization.
description: Enforce security best practices when writing code that handles user input, authentication, or sensitive data. Covers input validation, SQL injection prevention, and XSS protection.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 2d ago First seen · 184 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A db77024f7faf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (15 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,071 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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