meta-skill-creator

meta-skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kensaurus/cursor-kenji. It costs 56 tokens per session (3,032 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or updating a SKILL.md pack, the instruction file that teaches an AI coding agent how to handle a specialized task. It covers the required structure and review checklist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when authoring a new agent skill or updating an existing one with the required frontmatter and T1–T6 checks.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to package procedures, limits, and supporting knowledge so an agent can follow them reliably.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when authoring a new agent skill or updating an existing one with the required frontmatter and T1–T6 checks.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,032 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 214
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • high Rogue Agent · line 253
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00056 $0.03032
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01516
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00606
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00303

Measured 5d ago against content hash 46dc1bda7c44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-skill-creator 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 5d 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/meta-skill-creator/SKILL.md · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Degree of freedom: MIXED. Authoring judgment is [HIGH freedom]; house limits, frontmatter shape, and the T1–T6 checklist are [LOW freedom — do not skip].

Guidance for creating effective skills.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.

What Skills Provide

  1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
  2. Tool integrations - working with specific file formats or APIs
  3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
  4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks

Core Principles

Concise is Key

The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else Claude needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.

Default assumption: Claude is already very smart. Only add context Claude doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does Claude really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?"

Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.

Pruning — the verbosity levers

Every line must earn its tokens. Sweep each skill with these tests (adapted from mattpocock/skills, MIT):

  • No-op test. Does the line change behavior versus what the agent already does by default? "Be thorough" is a no-op; delete the whole sentence, don't trim words from it. A weak intensifier is cured by a stronger word (relentless), not more prose.
  • Positive phrasing. Steering by prohibition backfires — "don't think of an elephant" names the elephant. State the target behavior so the banned one is never spoken; keep a prohibition only as a hard guardrail you can't phrase positively, paired with what to do instead.
  • Leading words. Replace a restated quality with one compact concept the model already knows — "fast, deterministic, low-overhead" collapses to a tight loop. Fewer tokens and a sharper hook for the agent's thinking.
  • Single source of truth. Each meaning lives in exactly one place; a duplicated rule costs maintenance, tokens, and inflates its apparent importance.
  • One trigger per branch. In descriptions, synonyms that rename the same trigger are duplication — collapse them; keep only genuinely distinct branches.
  • Checkable completion criteria. End each step on a condition the agent can verify ("every modified file accounted for"), not a vibe ("make sure it's good") — vague criteria invite premature completion.

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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. 5d ago First seen · 290 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 46dc1bda7c44

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meta-skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 3,032 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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