valid-basic

A minimal valid skill definition containing the required fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check that the system can find and read a basic skill.
Why use it?
It provides a small known-good example for testing skill discovery and parsing.

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/maxvaega/skillkit/valid-basic
Any agent
npx skills add maxvaega/skillkit --skill valid-basic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxvaega/skillkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 30 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 $0.00011 $0.00030
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00015
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00003

Measured 2d ago against content hash 89fe8bd33e32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

valid-basic 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.

tests/fixtures/skills/valid-basic/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

This is a basic valid skill for testing discovery and parsing.

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 · 7 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 89fe8bd33e32

Subscribe to this mod's changes

valid-basic is a skill published in the GitHub repository maxvaega/skillkit (146 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 30 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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