skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,059 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and improving skills that teach coding agents how to perform specific tasks. It includes structured workflows and evaluation steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a new agent skill, improve an existing one, or turn a workflow into reusable instructions.
Why use it?
It gives skill authors a repeatable way to check existing guidance, avoid duplicates, test results, and keep related documentation updated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to build a new agent skill, improve an existing one, or turn a workflow into reusable instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kevin-liu-01/agent-machines/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 Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,059 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: 3 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 3
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 24
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 98
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00099 $0.01059
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00106

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84479a445a77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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.

knowledge/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create new skills and iteratively improve them. Wiki-aware variant that integrates with Kevin's LLM Wiki.

Wiki-First Protocol

Before creating any skill:

  1. Check the wiki. Read wiki/_index.md and search for pages related to the skill's domain. Existing wiki pages contain Kevin's compiled knowledge and preferences.
  2. Check skills.sh. Use the find-skills skill to search for existing upstream skills. Prefer adapting an upstream skill over building from scratch.
  3. Check installed skills. Scan skills/personal/, skills/claude/, and skills/dedalus/ for overlap. Don't create a skill that duplicates an existing one.

After creating a skill:

  1. Update wiki/tools/skills-sh.md — Add the new skill to the installed skills table
  2. Update AGENTS.md — Add to the installed skills table in the Skills section
  3. Update wiki/log.md — Record what was created and why
  4. Cross-reference — Update related wiki pages with links to the new skill
  5. Rebuild index — Run npx tsx scripts/build-index.ts

Skill Creation Process

1. Capture Intent

  • What should this skill enable the agent to do?
  • When should it trigger? (specific user phrases and contexts)
  • What's the expected output format?
  • Does an upstream skill on skills.sh already cover this? (check first)

2. Interview and Research

  • Ask about edge cases, input/output formats, success criteria, dependencies
  • Check wiki pages for existing knowledge on the topic
  • Check skills.sh for similar skills that could be adapted

3. Write the SKILL.md

Install Cursor/personal skills to skills/personal/<name>/SKILL.md (loaded through the ~/.cursor/skills symlink). Required structure:

---
name: skill-name
description: What it does and when to trigger. Be pushy — include specific trigger phrases.
---

Skill anatomy:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│   ├── YAML frontmatter (name, description required)
│   └── Markdown instructions
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
    ├── scripts/     - Executable code for deterministic tasks
    ├── references/  - Docs loaded into context as needed
    └── assets/      - Templates, icons, fonts

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 9d ago First seen · 116 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 84479a445a77

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kevin-Liu-01/Agent-Machines (29 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,059 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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