enhance-skill-prompts

enhance-skill-prompts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kensaurus/cursor-kenji. It costs 81 tokens per session (1,446 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-editing workflow for improving an existing SKILL.md instruction file without changing what the skill does.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding structured reasoning guidance, worked examples, self-checks, freedom levels, and consistent terminology to existing skills.
Why use it?
It helps make agent instructions clearer, more consistent, and easier to follow while preserving their original scope and behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for adding structured reasoning guidance, worked examples, self-checks, freedom levels, and consistent terminology to existing skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/enhance-skill-prompts
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 kensaurus/cursor-kenji --skill enhance-skill-prompts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kensaurus/cursor-kenji

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,446 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 $0.00081 $0.01446
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00145

Measured 6d ago against content hash a72ef6638d96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

enhance-skill-prompts 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 6d 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/enhance-skill-prompts/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

enhance-skill-prompts — Upgrade HOW a skill instructs, never WHAT it does

Degree of freedom: LOW-to-MEDIUM. This is a fragile transformation. A well-meant rewrite can change behavior. Follow the phases in order. Preserve intent, scope, and family semantics exactly. If a change would alter behavior, scope, or read-only / plan-only / apply-now stance, stop and flag it instead.

Grounded in docs/PROMPT-ENHANCEMENT-PLAYBOOK.md and the annotated exemplar references/exemplar-audit-auth-flows.md. Live reference after the exemplar was applied: skills/audit-auth-flows/SKILL.md. New skill from scratch → meta-skill-creator.

Phase 0 — Classify the skill [HIGH freedom]

Read the target SKILL.md and determine:

  • Family & register: audit/plan (interpretive → mostly HIGH) vs housekeep/deploy/migration (fragile sequences → LOW where a step must be exact).
  • Judgment points: triage, severity, root cause, winner-selection → T2/T3.
  • Fragile steps: probes, baseline capture, destructive ops → T1 LOW.
  • Existing examples: most have none — that is usually the biggest gap.

State the classification before editing. It decides which techniques apply.

Phase 1 — Apply T1–T6 (only where they fit) [HIGH freedom]

Apply in this order. Skip any technique that does not fit and record why.

T1 — Declare degrees of freedom. Short register line under the H1. Where mixed, tag fragile phases [LOW freedom — run exactly] and interpretive ones [HIGH freedom]. Do not over-constrain interpretive audits or under-constrain fragile sequences.

T2 — One structured reasoning scaffold. Named-stage chain the agent runs before concluding (audits: Observe → Interpret → Classify → Severity; plans: Propose → Risk → Keep-working → Phase). Place it ONCE near the top and reference it. Do not sprinkle generic "think step by step".

T3 — Exactly one worked example. Few-shot + CoT: the chain AND the output shape on a realistic case. Put it right after the scaffold.

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 6d ago First seen · 134 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A a72ef6638d96

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enhance-skill-prompts is a skill published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,446 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.

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