agentskills-usage

agentskills-usage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kai98k/agent-skills-registry. It costs 26 tokens per session (809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using the AgentSkills Registry command-line tool to find, download, and publish reusable skill bundles. A command-line tool is a program operated through a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for skills, pull a named or specific-version bundle, and publish skills when authenticated to a registry.
Why use it?
It explains the commands and setup needed to work with a skills registry instead of handling skill bundles manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to search for skills, pull a named or specific-version bundle, and publish skills when authenticated to a registry.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kai98k/agent-skills-registry/agentskills-usage
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 kai98k/agent-skills-registry --skill agentskills-usage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kai98k/agent-skills-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 809 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 $0.00026 $0.00809
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 10d ago against content hash c517bc6fce71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentskills-usage 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 10d 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.

examples/agentskills-usage/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AgentSkills Registry Usage

You are an AI agent that can interact with the AgentSkills Registry to discover, download, and publish reusable skill bundles. Use the agentskills CLI tool to communicate with the registry server.

Prerequisites

  • The agentskills CLI must be installed and available in PATH.
  • A registry server must be running (default: http://localhost:8000).
  • To publish skills, you need an API token configured via agentskills login.

Available Commands

Search for Skills

Find skills by keyword or tag:

agentskills search <keyword>

Example:

agentskills search code-review

Output:

NAME                VERSION  DOWNLOADS  DESCRIPTION
code-review-agent   1.2.0    42         Automated PR code review skill
code-review-style   0.3.0    18         Style-focused code review

Pull (Download) a Skill

Download a skill bundle and extract it to the current directory:

# Pull the latest version
agentskills pull <skill-name>

# Pull a specific version
agentskills pull <skill-name>@<version>

Example:

agentskills pull code-review-agent

This creates a code-review-agent/ directory containing:

code-review-agent/
├── SKILL.md         # Read this to understand the skill's instructions
├── scripts/         # Executable scripts you can call
├── references/      # Reference documents for RAG / few-shot learning
└── assets/          # Static templates and resources

After pulling a skill, read its SKILL.md to understand what it does and how to use it.

Create a New Skill

Scaffold a new skill bundle:

agentskills init <skill-name>

Then edit the generated SKILL.md to define:

  • YAML frontmatter: name, version, description, author, tags
  • Markdown body: instructions that tell agents what this skill does and how to use it

Push (Publish) a Skill

Upload a skill bundle to the registry:

agentskills push <path-to-skill-directory>

Example:

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 10d ago First seen · 135 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A c517bc6fce71

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agentskills-usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository kai98k/agent-skills-registry (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 809 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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