benai-skill-creator-skill

benai-skill-creator-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 190 tokens per session (1,114 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning a completed piece of work into a small, focused coding-agent skill, or for improving an existing skill. It uses the actual task process and decisions as its source.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, audit, narrow, and improve reusable skills after research, drafting, analysis, or other completed tasks.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful steps and exceptions that are often lost when a workflow is written from memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Good fit It helps create, audit, narrow, and improve reusable skills after research, drafting, analysis, or other completed tasks.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,114 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 41
    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 $0.00190 $0.01114
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00111

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3a59f15a213d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

benai-skill-creator-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 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.

plugins/all-skills/skills/benai-skill-creator-skill/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BenAI Skill Creator

Most skills are built wrong: someone describes a process from memory before running it, and gets the cleaned-up version that drops the judgment and the exceptions. This does the opposite. You do the task once in a chat, then this turns what actually happened into a small, reliable skill.

Two rules carry the whole skill: keep it modular (one goal, one job) and remember skills are never finished (ship a small working one, then improve it by using it). The reasoning is in references/scope-and-mindset.md.

Route first

Read the situation and pick a branch. Say which branch you picked and why, then proceed.

Situation Branch Do this
The user just finished a real task in this chat Build Steps 1 to 5 below
The user only has an idea, nothing has been done yet Plan Hand off to the process-interviewer skill (interview first, then it builds). Stop here.
The user points at an existing skill to fix or shrink Improve Skip step 2 (Extract). Run steps 1, 3, 4, 5 against the existing skill.

If unsure, ask one question: "Did we already do this task in this chat, or is it still just an idea?"

The build flow

Track progress out loud:

Task Progress:
- [ ] 1. Scope: one goal, right size, split or not
- [ ] 2. Extract: pull the real process out of the chat
- [ ] 3. Structure: write a small SKILL.md + reference files
- [ ] 4. Prune: cut everything that does not change behavior
- [ ] 5. Eval: test it works, add the self-improvement rule

1. Scope

Decide the one job and whether it should be one skill or several. Read references/scope-and-mindset.md. The cutoff line: a skill is one task doable in a single chat session (roughly 1 to 3 prompts). If the task is bigger, split it into a chain of small skills.

2. Extract

Reverse-engineer what actually happened. Do not ask the user to re-describe their process from memory. Walk back through this conversation and pull out the real steps, the judgment calls, and the reference material. Read references/extract-from-task.md for the technique, then play the process back to the user and let them correct it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 12d ago First seen · 58 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A 3a59f15a213d

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benai-skill-creator-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 1,114 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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