creating-skills

creating-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from letta-ai/letta-code. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,894 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to creating skills: reusable instruction packages that give an AI coding agent specialized knowledge, workflows, tools, or reference files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing or updating skills that support specialized tasks, tool integrations, domain rules, and bundled resources.
Why use it?
It helps keep new skills focused and useful instead of filling them with unnecessary instructions or unsupported assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for designing or updating skills that support specialized tasks, tool integrations, domain rules, and bundled resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/letta-ai/letta-code/creating-skills
About the project

letta-ai/letta-code is an agent harness for building assistants that retain memory, identity, and experience across interactions instead of treating each task as isolated. Developers use it through local, desktop, browser, or messaging interfaces for interactive or continuously running agents, and its catalogue entries configure the agents' skills, instructions, rules, and behavior.

letta-ai/letta-code · 3,222 stars · on GitHub · letta.com

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 letta-ai/letta-code --skill creating-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/letta-ai/letta-code

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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Your own site
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,894 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: 5 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 208
    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 300
    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.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 266
    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 339
    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 345
    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 $0.00047 $0.03894
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01947
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00779
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00389

Measured 8d ago against content hash 46b3d2c133ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

creating-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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/init-skill.ts, scripts/package-skill.ts, scripts/validate-skill.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/skills/builtin/creating-skills/SKILL.md · 371 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 371 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Skills

This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills in Letta Code. For the complete official specification, see agentskills.io.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Letta Code's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform a Letta Code agent 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 - Instructions for 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 the Letta Code agent needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.

Default assumption: the Letta Code agent is already very capable. Only add context the Letta Code agent doesn't already have. Challenge each piece of information: "Does the Letta Code 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 371 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 8d ago First seen · 371 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 46b3d2c133ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

creating-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository letta-ai/letta-code (3,222 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,894 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 2026-08-30.