agent-builder

agent-builder is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,674 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup tool for creating Anthropic-managed AI agents through a conversation. It gathers the agent's purpose, connected services, and abilities, then turns those choices into the required setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define an agent, choose its connected services and abilities, and create the supporting Anthropic resources and credentials.
Why use it?
Creating an agent can require unfamiliar technical settings and service connections. This lets someone describe the desired agent in everyday language while the setup details are handled behind the scenes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 99 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define an agent, choose its connected services and abilities, and create the supporting Anthropic resources and credentials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/agent-builder
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill agent-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 99 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/agent-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/agent-builder/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/agent-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/agent-builder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,674 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 78
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 156
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 54
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 69
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 119
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.02674
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00267

Measured 10d ago against content hash c69929e69169, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-builder scanned grade A 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. Do not list "Step 1, Step 2, …" in chat. Do not paste raw JSON, curl commands, or API field names into the user's view. Those exist only in the references for your own use.
plugins/all-skills/skills/agent-builder/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Builder

Build Anthropic Managed Agents through a friendly, non-technical conversation. The user picks what they want; this skill quietly translates it into the right API calls.

When This Skill Loads

  1. Silently read every file in references/. Do not narrate this.
  2. Do not list "Step 1, Step 2, …" in chat. Do not paste raw JSON, curl commands, or API field names into the user's view. Those exist only in the references for your own use.
  3. Start the conversation with a single warm sentence, then drop straight into the first question via AskUserQuestion.

Opener (example, vary as needed):

"Let's build your agent. A few quick questions and I'll set everything up for you."

How To Drive The Conversation

Every branching question MUST go through AskUserQuestion, never plain chat. Plain chat is reserved for short confirmations and the final summary. Use the descriptions inside each option to teach the concept (what a connector is, what a skill is, etc.) so the user never has to know the underlying terms.

Run the questions in this order. Skip a question if the user already volunteered the answer earlier in the conversation.


Q1. What kind of agent are you building?

Use AskUserQuestion. Header: Agent type. Options (single-select):

  • Research & analysis. Reads sources on the web or in your tools, summarizes, finds patterns.
  • Content creation. Drafts posts, emails, scripts, documents.
  • Operations & automation. Handles tasks across your apps (Slack, Notion, CRM, etc.).
  • Custom. Describe it yourself.

If "Custom", follow up with a single open question: "In one sentence, what should this agent do?"

Internally, use the answer to seed a short system prompt. The user never sees the word "system prompt".


Q2. Which apps should it connect to?

First, in chat, explain in one sentence:

"Connectors are the apps your agent can read from and act on, like Slack, Gmail, or Notion. Pick whichever this agent needs."

Then use AskUserQuestion with multiSelect: true. Header: Connectors. Options:

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 216 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c69929e69169

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,674 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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