skill-installer

skill-installer is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,521 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for installing coding-agent skills from a trusted catalogue or a GitHub repository. It checks the source and destination, performs the install, and verifies the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list installable skills or install one from a curated source or specified GitHub path.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of installing a skill into the wrong place or assuming it is available when the agent cannot see it.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads ~/.codex paths; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to list installable skills or install one from a curated source or specified GitHub path.

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

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,521 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 $0.00029 $0.01521
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00608
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00152

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7e2b1ed0ea10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-installer 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/github_utils.py, scripts/install-skill-from-github.py, scripts/list-skills.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.

skills-system/skill-installer/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Installer

Install the smallest requested skill set, prove where it landed, and keep source, destination, and runtime visibility separate. By default these are from https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated, but users can also provide other locations. Experimental skills live in https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.experimental and can be installed the same way.

Philosophy

Treat installation as a provenance and visibility workflow, not a file copy. List before installing when the user has not named a skill, install only the named package, and report validation as pass, fail, or blocked with the exact source and destination.

Adapt the route to the source: curated names, experimental names, public GitHub paths, and private repo paths need different commands and blocker language. Keep the install surface narrow even when the user mentions several catalogs.

When To Use

  • The user asks what curated or experimental skills are available.
  • The user names a curated skill to install.
  • The user provides a GitHub repo, tree URL, or repo path for a skill package.
  • The user asks whether an installed skill is already present locally.

Use the helper scripts based on the task:

  • List skills when the user asks what is available, or if the user uses this skill without specifying what to do. Default listing is .curated, but you can pass --path skills/.experimental when they ask about experimental skills.
  • Install from the curated list when the user provides a skill name.
  • Install from another repo when the user provides a GitHub repo/path (including private repos).

Install skills with the helper scripts.

Communication

When listing skills, output approximately as follows, depending on the context of the user's request. If they ask about experimental skills, list from .experimental instead of .curated and label the source accordingly: """ Skills from {repo}:

  1. skill-1
  2. skill-2 (already installed)
  3. ... Which ones would you like installed? """

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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. 1mo ago Changed · +77 lines · -24 tokens per session 7e2b1ed0ea10
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 60 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A ecee18d4fcc1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-installer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,521 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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