toolkit-skill-author

toolkit-skill-author is a skill for Claude Code from monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,227 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill authoring guide for mc-agent-toolkit, a toolkit that contains reusable agent skills. It checks contribution rules, prevents naming conflicts, and guides registration of new or extended skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or extend a toolkit skill, find related skills, apply the project’s contribution rules, hand work to the required skill-creator, and complete registration steps.
Why use it?
It helps contributors decide whether to extend an existing skill or split out a new one, while avoiding missing repository requirements and duplicate names.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it to create or extend a toolkit skill, find related skills, apply the project’s contribution rules, hand work to the required skill-creator, and complete registration steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit/toolkit-skill-author
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 monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit --skill toolkit-skill-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,227 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00056 $0.02227
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01113
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00223

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0b2e4430d1a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

toolkit-skill-author scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/find-peers.sh, scripts/lint-skill.py, scripts/tests/smoke-test.sh), 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

!rm -rf skills/<peer>/evals/ skills/<peer>-workspace/
.claude/skills/toolkit-skill-author/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

toolkit-skill-author

Pre-load

!test -f CONTRIBUTING.md || (echo "CONTRIBUTING.md missing — run from repo root." && exit 1)

Verify skill-creator is callable in this session. Scan the available-skills list for a skill named skill-creator (bare or namespaced, e.g. skill-creator:skill-creator). If absent, abort with exactly this message:

skill-creator plugin is required. Run /plugin install skill-creator@claude-plugins-official, enable it, then restart this session and re-run /toolkit-skill-author.

Do not fall back to manually scaffolding SKILL.md — the handoff is core to the workflow.

Load authoritative context:

!cat CONTRIBUTING.md
!bash .claude/skills/toolkit-skill-author/scripts/find-peers.sh skills
  • @.claude/skills/toolkit-skill-author/references/decision-rules.md
  • @.claude/skills/toolkit-skill-author/references/handoff-preamble.md
  • @.claude/skills/toolkit-skill-author/references/registration-checklist.md

Phase 0 — Parse intent and apply gates

From the contributor's initial prompt, extract (without asking yet):

  • target_name — did they name a specific skill (e.g., "extend monitoring-advisor", "create a skill called foo-bar")?
  • actionextend, new, or unknown.
  • bucket — did they state a capability bucket?

Apply the gates below before any survey question. Each gate halts when it fires.

Gate A — Forbidden bucket

If bucket is Agent-routing (or a synonym like "agent routing", "routing skill"), refuse:

Agent-routing skills are owned by the toolkit core team per CONTRIBUTING § Capability buckets — not authored via /toolkit-skill-author. Halting.

Do not proceed. If bucket is unstated, this gate re-applies after Q1.

Gate B — Name collision (new-skill intent)

If action is new and target_name is given, lowercase both target_name and each existing skill directory name, then check:

  • Exact match (equal strings): refuse with "<target_name> already exists in skills/. Pick a different name, or switch to extend." Do not proceed.
  • Near match. Split both names on - into token lists. Fire if either (a) the two lists share any token, or (b) any token in one list is a substring of any token in the other list. Example: monitor-advisormonitoring-advisor fires via (a) shared advisor and (b) monitormonitoring. When fired, surface the overlap and ask: "<target_name> overlaps with existing <existing>. Did you mean to extend <existing>, or proceed with a new name?" Wait for an answer before continuing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 8d ago First seen · 175 lines · 56 tokens per session scan C 0b2e4430d1a9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

toolkit-skill-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository monte-carlo-data/mc-agent-toolkit (91 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,227 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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