skill-finder

skill-finder is a skill for Codex from mahdisanagostar/chef. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automatic routing layer that selects the smallest useful set of specialist skills for a task and rechecks that choice when the task changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify tasks, choose and order skills, and decide when specialist guidance or verification is needed.
Why use it?
It helps an agent avoid missing a relevant skill or loading unnecessary ones before work begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to classify tasks, choose and order skills, and decide when specialist guidance or verification is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mahdisanagostar/chef/skill-finder
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 mahdisanagostar/chef --skill skill-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mahdisanagostar/chef

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,425 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.01425
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00570
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00143

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8d7e558edda9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-finder 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/quick_validate.py, scripts/sync_mirror.py), 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.

adapters/shared/skills/skill-finder/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Finder

Mission

Use this as Chef's automatic routing layer.

Run it:

  • right after $chef-index for Codex work
  • before choosing specialist skills in Claude work
  • again whenever the task changes shape, artifact, or risk

The goal is not to list every possible skill. The goal is to engage the fewest skills that materially improve the work.

Fast Path

Do not force routing when the task is already small and obvious.

Skip specialist selection when:

  • the user asks for a trivial shell action or one-command lookup
  • the user names one exact skill or plugin route and no support changes execution
  • the current step is a tiny follow-up inside an already-correct skill lane

Default Behavior

For every non-trivial task:

  1. honor explicit skill, plugin, or app requests first
  2. classify the task
  3. pick one primary skill
  4. add at most one execution support and one verification support
  5. explain the choice in one short line
  6. re-run the check if scope shifts

If no specialist skill clearly helps, say so and continue without forcing one.

Classification Pass

Look at seven things first:

  1. intent build, review, debug, research, document, design, present, automate
  2. artifact code, UI, deck, doc, spreadsheet, repo config, workflow, knowledge base
  3. risk security, architecture, multi-module change, user-facing polish, external publish
  4. medium terminal, browser, slides, images, docs, video
  5. freshness whether direct graph read, live browsing, or current repo state matters
  6. host Codex runtime, Codex plugin, shared Chef skill, Claude skill
  7. explicit cues user-named skills, plugins, tools, output formats, or platforms

Use the matrix in references/selection-matrix.md when the answer is not obvious.

Routing Rules

1. Prefer one strong specialist

Pick narrowest skill that squarely matches task.

Good:

  • frontend request -> frontend-design
  • presentation request -> talkcraft
  • skill creation request -> skill-creator

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 1mo ago First seen · 201 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 8d7e558edda9

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skill-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository mahdisanagostar/chef (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,425 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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