ai-engineering-toolkit

ai-engineering-toolkit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from manu14357/zskills. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,377 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of ai-engineering-toolkit, MIT.

A collection of six structured workflows for building and evaluating applications that use large language models, such as chatbots and AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating prompts, planning how much information to give a model, designing RAG systems that retrieve documents for a model, auditing agent security, building evaluation tools, and thinking through AI product decisions.
Why use it?
It replaces ad-hoc advice with repeatable checklists, scoring methods, and decision steps for common AI engineering decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Evaluating prompts, planning how much information to give a model, designing RAG systems that retrieve documents for a model, auditing agent security, building evaluation tools, and thinking through AI product decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manu14357/zskills/ai-engineering-toolkit
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 manu14357/zskills --skill ai-engineering-toolkit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manu14357/zskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 1,377 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01377
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00688
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00138

Measured 11d ago against content hash 48f577947304, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-engineering-toolkit 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to ai-engineering-toolkit — 26 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/ai-engineering-toolkit/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Engineering Toolkit

Overview

A collection of 6 structured, expert-level workflows that turn your AI coding assistant into a senior AI engineering partner. Each skill encodes a repeatable methodology — not just "ask AI to help," but a step-by-step decision framework with quantitative scoring, checklists, and decision trees.

The key difference from ad-hoc AI assistance: every workflow produces consistent, reproducible results regardless of who runs it or when. You can use the scoring systems as team baselines and write them into CI/CD pipelines.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when evaluating or optimizing LLM system prompts before production deployment
  • Use when designing a RAG pipeline and need structured architecture decisions (not just boilerplate code)
  • Use when planning token budget allocation across context window zones
  • Use when running pre-launch security audits on AI agents
  • Use when building evaluation frameworks for LLM applications
  • Use when thinking through product strategy before writing code

How It Works

Skill 1: Prompt Evaluator

Scores prompts across 8 dimensions (Clarity, Specificity, Completeness, Conciseness, Structure, Grounding, Safety, Robustness) on a 1-10 scale with weighted aggregation to a 0-100 score. Identifies the 3 weakest dimensions, generates targeted rewrites, and re-evaluates. Supports single prompt, A/B comparison, and batch evaluation modes.

Skill 2: Context Budget Planner

Analyzes token distribution across 5 context zones (System, Few-shot, User input, Retrieval, Output) and produces an optimized allocation plan. Includes a compression strategy decision tree for each zone. Common finding: output zone squeezed to under 6% — this skill catches that before truncation happens.

Skill 3: RAG Pipeline Architect

Walks through a complete architecture decision tree: document format → parsing strategy → chunking approach (fixed/semantic/recursive) → embedding model selection → retrieval method (vector/keyword/hybrid) → evaluation metrics (Faithfulness, Relevancy, Context Precision). Covers Naive RAG, Advanced RAG, and Modular RAG patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 106 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 48f577947304

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ai-engineering-toolkit is a skill published in the GitHub repository manu14357/zskills (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,377 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to ai-engineering-toolkit, differing in 26 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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