skill-builder

skill-builder is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,033 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repair and review workflow for coding-agent skill packages. It fixes issues in instructions, triggers, examples, tests, safety checks, release evidence, and package quality.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve a SKILL.md package, address evaluation or release failures, reduce context cost, or prepare a skill for plugin use.
Why use it?
It turns audit findings or failed checks into targeted repairs with a record of the change and its validation result.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to improve a SKILL.md package, address evaluation or release failures, reduce context cost, or prepare a skill for plugin use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscraik/agent-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 jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill skill-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,033 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 $0.00087 $0.02033
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01017
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00203

Measured 8d ago against content hash deb3621b3377, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/analyze_skill.py, scripts/openclaw_skill_guard.py, scripts/quick_validate.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/skill-factory/skills/code_quality_review/skill-builder/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Builder

Repair one failing skill gate at a time. Preserve the artifact, command, baseline, failed contract, patch, and rerun evidence for every repair.

When To Use

Use for SKILL.md repair, skill eval hardening, release proof, Tessl score improvement, reference quality fixes, and plugin-skill readiness work.

Inputs

  • Canonical skill source path, failing gate or score, allowed edit scope, and required validation command.
  • Baseline package, audit, eval, Tessl, or review receipt when a score or gate is being improved.
  • Factory gate answers from references/repair-policy.md before create, harden, refactor, skillify, plugin, hook, or package-design work.
  • Redact secrets and sensitive data by default in prompts, outputs, temporary evidence, copied artifacts, and review notes.
  • For unsafe requests, return Safety Verdict: safety constraints intact; refusing unsafe request.
  • If the target, failing gate, score, or edit authority is missing, ask Round 1 question: Which canonical target should I patch? If canonical and .agents/** paths both exist, confirm the source before edits.

Outputs

  • Exact validation commands and pass, fail, or blocked outcomes.
  • Changed files, rollback path, and evidence artifact locations.
  • For blocked release-eval cases, the failed repair-policy item in blocker_notes.
  • Lane-separated readiness summary covering SDK, OSS, Tessl, runtime, registry, and publication truth only when those lanes have current evidence.
  • Schema-bound outputs include schema_version and preserve the validation command that produced the result.

Workflow

  1. Find the canonical source and confirm edits are allowed.
  2. Read references/repair-policy.md for first-principles gate, repair map, Tessl policy, and scenario policy.
  3. For review, handoff, rollback, or validation-only work, return the Outputs contract and stop.
  4. Run the focused gate; record baseline score, artifact path, and first blocker.
  5. Apply one Repair Map change from references/repair-policy.md, then rerun the same gate.
  6. If score or blocker is flat, undo or narrow and try the next map item. After three flat loops, stop with blocker_notes.
  7. On green, run final gates. If any fail, name the gate and next patch target; do not claim release readiness.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 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. 8d ago First seen · 189 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A deb3621b3377

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skill-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,033 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 2026-09-03.