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.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill agent-design-best-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registryWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-design-best-practices)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-design-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-design-best-practices/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-design-best-practices"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/agent-design-best-practices.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 3 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 Prompt Injection · line 19 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 104 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 181 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00186 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00074 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00037 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00019 |
Grade A, and why
agent-design-best-practices 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
agent-design-best-practices
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
- Archived SKILL.md (snapshot from 2026-10-08)
- Find this skill in Claude Skills Registry
- Request removal
This pointer keeps old links working. It is not an installable skill.
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.
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.
- 5d ago Changed · -210 lines · -73 tokens per session eeda15cb5b33
- 1mo ago First seen · 220 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A e7ecae981854
agent-design-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/claude-skill-registry (693 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 186 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.
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