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.
npx skills add jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-codegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00104 | $0.00961 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00042 | $0.00384 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00192 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Skills are the new Code — Guy Podjarny
Guy Podjarny (founder of Tessl, previously founder of Snyk) argues that skills are the new unit of software being authored in the agentic-development stack, and that they deserve the same engineering rigour — static analysis, evals, security testing, dependency management, and observability — applied to code.
When To Use
Use this skill for transcript-grounded questions about the talk or for applying one of its frameworks to a user-provided project, artifact, or workflow. Do not use it as generic advice about skills when the talk does not cover the claim.
Inputs
- The user's question or requested framework.
outline.md,quote.md, and the relevanttranscript.mdsection.- For an application or audit, the separately authorized local truth surface.
Outputs
Return a transcript-grounded answer with safe excerpts, line ranges, and a clearly labelled paraphrase. For an application or audit, add a crosswalk that keeps the talk evidence separate from the project evidence:
| Talk discipline | Local evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Evals | <artifact, command, or none found> | present / gap / unknown |
Workflow
- Read
outline.mdto locate the relevant section. - Check
quote.mdfor candidate safe excerpts from that section. - Read the corresponding
transcript.mdlines before using a claim or excerpt.quote.mdis a navigation aid, not standalone evidence. - Anchor every key claim in a safe excerpt from
transcript.md; cite the line range and separate the excerpt from any paraphrase or interpretation. - For a full-talk synthesis, identify the thesis and each relevant framework
from
outline.md, then ground each synthesis point in transcript evidence. - For an application or audit, inspect only the user-provided or separately
authorized local truth surface, populate the crosswalk, and classify each
row as
present,gap, orunknown. - Keep talk evidence separate from repository evidence. A transcript explains the framework; only local artifacts and command results establish project behavior.
What ships with it
4 files 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A ade98c1e1a7f
talk-podjarny-skills-are-the-new-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 961 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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