using-skills

using-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LandonSchropp/agent-toolkit. It costs 33 tokens per session (445 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A starting workflow for using coding-agent skills, including rules for invoking skills, test-driven development, reviews, and skill-provided scripts. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing tests as part of the process of building code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of a task to load the shared workflow rules before taking action.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent process for choosing and applying skills during a task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ls-agent plugin — 9 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/landonschropp/agent-toolkit/using-skills
Any agent
npx skills add LandonSchropp/agent-toolkit --skill using-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LandonSchropp/agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ls-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for using-skills

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/landonschropp/agent-toolkit/using-skills.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/landonschropp/agent-toolkit/using-skills)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/landonschropp/agent-toolkit/using-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/landonschropp/agent-toolkit/using-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 445 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00033 $0.00445
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8c610ef87848, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-skills 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 3d 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.

plugins/ls-agent/skills/using-skills/SKILL.md · 35 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 3d ago First seen · 35 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 8c610ef87848

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using-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository LandonSchropp/agent-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 445 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.