steal-like-an-artist

steal-like-an-artist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from muyuhill/100books-to-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A creativity framework from Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like an Artist. It treats creative work as combining and reshaping ideas learned from many sources, while distinguishing inspiration from copying.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding creative prompts, combining influences, developing content or projects, working through a block, and deciding what to make and publish.
Why use it?
It gives a practical response to creative blocks and the feeling that every idea must be completely original. It encourages starting, making, and sharing work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding creative prompts, combining influences, developing content or projects, working through a block, and deciding what to make and publish.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muyuhill/100books-to-skills/steal-like-an-artist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add muyuhill/100books-to-skills --skill steal-like-an-artist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muyuhill/100books-to-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 747 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 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 $0.00076 $0.00747
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00075

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4b3ae6b0bc67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

steal-like-an-artist 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 12d 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.

skills/像艺术家一样偷师-steal-like-an-artist/SKILL.md · 94 lines

What it actually says

Steal Like an Artist — 10 条创意借鉴法则

所有创意都是已有想法的重新组合。没什么是真正原创的。

Austin Kleon 的 10 条法则,专治「我想不出新东西」的焦虑。


法则一:像艺术家一样偷师

艺术即偷窃。但偷得好叫灵感,偷得烂叫抄袭。

区别:抄袭 = 复制一个人。灵感 = 混合十几个人。你崇拜谁,就研究谁——然后学他们学的人。


法则二:不等准备好了再开始

假装你已经是你想成为的那个人。假装直到你真的成为。

想当作家?先每天写。想当摄影师?先每天拍。行动先于身份。


法则三:写你想读的书

创作你想要的、但还不存在的东西。做你自己的第一个观众。

不用调查市场——问自己:我想看/读/用什么?如果还不存在,那就是你的创作方向。


法则四:动手做

用双手——身体参与了,大脑才真正参与。

不只是在电脑前。画草图、贴便签、剪杂志——物理创造触发新的连接。


法则五:副业和爱好很重要

你的主业可能只有一个,但副业和爱好让你保持兴奋。它们会交叉感染你的主业。

做不同的事让你的大脑建立意想不到的连接。这就是创意。


法则六:做好的作品,并分享

在意的不只是「做出来」,是「被人看到」。把作品放到能被看到的地方。

发布 = 完成。不发出来的东西不存在。


法则七:地理不再是限制

互联网让你不需要住在纽约或北京也能被发现。但要找到你的线上部落。


法则八:做个好人

世界很小。对别人好,因为你会再遇到他们。不要在网上吵架——吵赢了你也没赚到什么。


法则九:无聊很重要

最好的创意出现在你无聊的时候——洗澡、散步、发呆。不要填满每一分钟。


法则十:创意是减法

不是越多越好。知道什么不做什么比知道做什么更重要。


一句话总结

你不会从虚无中创造。你从你收集的一切中重新组合。偷师——然后变成你自己的。

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. 12d ago First seen · 94 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 4b3ae6b0bc67

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steal-like-an-artist is a skill published in the GitHub repository muyuhill/100books-to-skills (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 747 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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