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 ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai --skill zephyr-skill-creatorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-aiWrote 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/ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai/zephyr-skill-creator)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai/zephyr-skill-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai/zephyr-skill-creator/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/ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai/zephyr-skill-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai/zephyr-skill-creator.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 | $0.00018 | $0.03746 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00009 | $0.01873 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00749 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00375 |
Grade A, and why
zephyr-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 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.
This is a copy
81% identical to skill-creator — 139 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 358 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Zephyr Skill Creator
This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills for Zephyr OS.
About Skills
Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend an AI agent's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks — they transform a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model (LLM) can fully possess.
What Skills Provide
- Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
- Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific API
- Domain expertise - Domain specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
- 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 an AI agent needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.
Default assumption: An AI agent is already very smart. Only add context the agent doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does an AI agent really need this explanation?" and "Does this paragraph justify its token cost?"
Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.
Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom
Match the level of specificity to the task's fragility and variability:
High freedom (text-based instructions): Use when multiple approaches are valid, decisions depend on context, or heuristics guide the approach.
Medium freedom (pseudocode or scripts with parameters): Use when a preferred pattern exists, some variation is acceptable, or configuration affects behavior.
Low freedom (specific scripts, few parameters): Use when operations are fragile and error-prone, consistency is critical, or a specific sequence must be followed.
Think of an Agent as exploring a path: a narrow bridge with cliffs needs specific guardrails (low freedom), while an open field allows many routes (high freedom).
What ships with it
2 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.
- 10d ago First seen · 358 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A aa12c955031d
zephyr-skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ksachdeva/zephyr-rtos-ai (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 3,746 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to skill-creator, differing in 139 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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