_template

An internal template for creating a new technical skill, with guidance on when it should apply, what instruction it should enforce, and how to test it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point when authoring a skill, defining its trigger conditions, writing its instructions, and preparing an evaluation file to record acceptance tests.
Why use it?
It helps authors avoid making skills that merely repeat general advice or contain vague instructions. It focuses each skill on a missed action, the mistake it prevents, and an observable improvement.

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/lynxlangya/techne/_template
Any agent
npx skills add lynxlangya/techne --skill _template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lynxlangya/techne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 396 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 $0.00022 $0.00396
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2027686a8188, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

_template 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 2d 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/_template/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Skill Title

Use this file as the starting point for a new techne skill. Keep the skill body tool-neutral: the guidance here should make sense outside any one host, with tool-specific loading handled by plugin manifests.

Quality Bar

A techne skill must force a move the model can make but often skips. It is not a place to restate common knowledge, collect vague advice, or duplicate what the platform or superpowers already handles well.

Before authoring, identify:

  • The skipped move this skill forces.
  • The failure pattern it prevents.
  • The cases where the skill should not apply.
  • The observable improvement expected when the skill is present.

When To Use

State the triggering situation in concrete terms. Prefer user intents, task conditions, and failure signals over broad domain labels.

Instructions

Write the smallest set of instructions that reliably forces the move. Use direct commands, checks, and stop conditions. Avoid product-specific paths, local tool names, or host-only features unless they are documented as optional references.

Validation

Each real skill should include an eval.md alongside SKILL.md. The eval file records the empirical acceptance test from WORKFLOW.md: baseline behavior, with-skill behavior, what counts as improvement, and the pass bar.

For scaffold-only or template changes, direct mechanical validation is enough.

Supporting Files

Optional files live next to SKILL.md when they remove noise from the main skill:

  • eval.md for the empirical acceptance test.
  • scripts/ for executable helpers the model may run.
  • reference.md for longer material loaded only when needed.

Do not add empty support folders. Add them only when the skill actually needs them.

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. 2d ago First seen · 56 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 2027686a8188

Subscribe to this mod's changes

_template is a skill published in the GitHub repository lynxlangya/techne (105 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 396 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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