skill-builder

skill-builder is a skill for Codex from jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (971 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating reusable instructions that coding agents can follow for a specific job. It covers where to store the instructions, how to make them activate for the right requests, and how to connect them across workspaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new agent skill, choose between project, shared, and user-wide storage, and register it for agents that do not load skills automatically.
Why use it?
It helps avoid skills that are stored in the wrong place or fail to activate when needed. It also turns lessons from a real workflow into clear rules for future agent runs.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create a new agent skill, choose between project, shared, and user-wide storage, and register it for agents that do not load skills automatically.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills/skill-builder
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 jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills --skill skill-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 971 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 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 $0.00088 $0.00971
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00485
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00097

Measured 12d ago against content hash cf9b4f7cc818, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-builder 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 12d 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/skill-builder/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Builder

The difference between a skill that fires reliably and one that never triggers is craft: a description written as a trigger matcher, absolute paths, explicit guardrails. This skill builds skills that work, and puts them where they belong.

Step 1: Mine the workflow

The best skills come from a workflow that just happened. If the user is converting something they did this session, extract from THIS conversation: the exact steps, the paths touched, the mistakes made and corrected. Those corrections become the new skill's Rules section.

Pin down:

  • Name: kebab-case, short, specific (follow-up-radar, not helper-tool). Check for collisions against every skill already installed in any tier.
  • Triggers: the literal phrases the user would say. These go in the description, quoted.
  • Job: one job. If the skill needs an "and also" clause, that is two skills.

Step 2: Choose the storage tier

The skill... Tier Location
Only makes sense in this project or workspace Project <project>/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Useful across several workspaces Shared library One real folder in a central location, linked into each workspace's .claude/skills/
Generic personal utility, any folder User-global ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md

For the shared library tier, create the real folder once and link it in per workspace:

  • Windows (no admin rights needed): New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "<workspace>\.claude\skills\<name>" -Target "<library>\<name>"
  • macOS/Linux: ln -s <library>/<name> <workspace>/.claude/skills/<name>

An edit to the library folder then propagates to every workspace that links it.

Step 3: Scaffold the SKILL.md

Always a folder with a SKILL.md, never a loose file. Frontmatter has exactly two keys:

---
name: <name>
description: <What it does in one sentence. Then the trigger phrases, quoted, so the skill actually fires.>
---

# <Title>

One line: the outcome this skill produces.

## Step 1: ...
## Step 2: ...

## Rules
- The explicit never-do list: what it must not overwrite, delete, send, or invent.

## Output
What the user receives: files, report, chat summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A cf9b4f7cc818

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skill-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository jqaisystems/jqai-ai-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 971 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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