skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lvndry/jazz. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating Jazz skills, which are reusable instructions for automating a task or workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define and create project-specific or global skills, including when they activate and what they should produce.
Why use it?
It prevents custom skills from being created with missing requirements or guessed behavior. It gathers the purpose, location, triggers, needed knowledge, and output format first.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/lvndry/jazz/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add lvndry/jazz --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lvndry/jazz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 skill-creator

README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,643 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.01643
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00164

Measured 4d ago against content hash f2bd1a715f50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create effective Jazz skills for automating workflows and specialized tasks.

Gathering Information (Questionnaire)

Do not create the skill until you have enough information. If the user's request is vague (e.g. "create a skill", "I want a skill for X") or missing any of the items below, guide them through a short questionnaire instead of guessing.

You have enough info when you know:

  1. Purpose: What specific task or workflow should this skill automate?
  2. Location: Global (~/.jazz/skills/, ~/.agents/skills) or project-specific (./skills/)?
  3. Triggers: When should Jazz automatically apply this skill? (Trigger phrases or scenarios.)
  4. Domain knowledge: What specialized information is needed?
  5. Output format: Are there specific templates or formats required?

How to run the questionnaire:

  • Ask one or a few questions at a time; don't dump a long list.
  • If the user gave partial context, infer what you can and ask only for what's missing.
  • After each answer, confirm what you have and ask only what's still missing.
  • Once you have all five items above, proceed to create the skill (directory + SKILL.md and any supporting files).

Skill Structure

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md              # Required - main instructions
├── reference.md          # Optional - detailed documentation  
├── examples.md           # Optional - usage examples
└── scripts/              # Optional - utility scripts

Storage Locations

Type Path Scope
Global ~/.jazz/skills/skill-name/ Available in all projects
Project ./skills/skill-name/ Project-specific
Built-in Ships with Jazz Cannot be modified

SKILL.md Format

Every skill requires a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: your-skill-name
description: Brief description of what this skill does and when to use it
---

# Your Skill Name

## Instructions
Clear, step-by-step guidance.

## Examples
Concrete usage examples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 258 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A f2bd1a715f50

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository lvndry/jazz (50 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,643 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.