example-skill

A template for writing a skill’s instructions: its purpose, when to use it, required inputs, workflow, outputs, resources, safety limits, and naming rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point when creating or reviewing a skill instruction file and its optional references, scripts, or assets.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent structure for documenting a coding-agent skill and makes its boundaries and expected results clear.

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/msiccdev/ai-context-kit/skill_template
Any agent
npx skills add MSiccDev/ai-context-kit --skill skill_template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MSiccDev/ai-context-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 459 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 $0.00018 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash d36c79769685, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

example-skill 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 yesterday.

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.

templates/skill_template/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Example Skill

Purpose

Describe the capability this skill provides and the problem it solves.

When To Use

  • Use this skill when the task matches this domain.
  • Do not use this skill for unrelated tasks.

Required Inputs

  • List required information the assistant needs before applying this skill.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the task fits the skill scope.
  2. Gather only the inputs required for this workflow.
  3. Execute steps in order and verify outputs.

Output Expectations

  • Define the expected output format and quality criteria.
  • Include any acceptance checks.

Resources

  • references/ for detailed docs loaded on demand.
  • scripts/ for optional automation or checks.
  • assets/ for reusable static artifacts.

Constraints And Safety

  • Keep instructions concise in this file; move large material to references/.
  • Use relative paths for all skill-local references.
  • Mention risky operations explicitly and require confirmation before running them.

Frontmatter Rules

  • name (required):
  • 1-64 characters.
  • Lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only.
  • No leading/trailing hyphen.
  • No consecutive hyphens.
  • Must match the parent skill directory name.
  • description (required):
  • 1-1024 characters.
  • Must state what the skill does and when to use it.
  • license (optional): short license identifier.
  • compatibility (optional):
  • 1-500 characters.
  • Use only for real environment constraints.
  • metadata (optional): map of string keys to string values.
  • version (optional): semver string (e.g. "1.0.0"). Increment when skill behavior changes.
  • allowed-tools (optional): YAML flow list of tool names this skill may invoke (e.g. [Read, Write, Edit]).
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. yesterday First seen · 61 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d36c79769685

Subscribe to this mod's changes

example-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository MSiccDev/ai-context-kit (12 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 459 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.