skill-downloader

skill-downloader is a skill for Claude Code from nicepkg/ai-workflow. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,047 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for downloading and installing coding skills from GitHub repositories, archive files, or direct web links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add skills from a repository, ZIP or tar archive, .skill file, or direct URL.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of finding, downloading, and placing skill files in the right project folder.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/download_from_github.py https://github.com/anthropics/skills skills/docx --output ./.claude/skills/.

Good fit Use it to add skills from a repository, ZIP or tar archive, .skill file, or direct URL.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/skill-downloader

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,047 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 $0.00078 $0.01047
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00419
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00105

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aa18f0e0bce3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-downloader 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/download_from_archive.py, scripts/download_from_github.py, scripts/download_skill.py), 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.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/legacy-to-ai-ready/assets/skill-downloader/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Downloader

Download and install Claude Code skills from multiple sources.

Supported Sources

Source Type Examples
GitHub Repository https://github.com/user/repo, github.com/user/repo
Compressed Archive .zip, .tar.gz, .tgz, .skill (renamed zip)
Direct URL URL pointing to archive or skill folder

Usage

Download from GitHub

python scripts/download_from_github.py <repo-url> <skill-path> --output <target-dir>

Examples:

# Official Anthropic skills
python scripts/download_from_github.py https://github.com/anthropics/skills skills/docx --output ./.claude/skills/

# Community skills (root level)
python scripts/download_from_github.py https://github.com/gked2121/claude-skills social-repurposer --output ./.claude/skills/

# Nested skill path
python scripts/download_from_github.py https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code skills/content-brief --output ./.claude/skills/

Download from Archive

python scripts/download_from_archive.py <url-or-path> --output <target-dir>

Examples:

# From URL
python scripts/download_from_archive.py https://example.com/skills/my-skill.zip --output ./.claude/skills/

# From local file
python scripts/download_from_archive.py ./downloads/my-skill.tar.gz --output ./.claude/skills/

# .skill files (renamed zip)
python scripts/download_from_archive.py https://skillhub.club/download/awesome-skill.skill --output ./.claude/skills/

Unified Download Command

python scripts/download_skill.py <source> --output <target-dir>

Automatically detects source type:

  • GitHub URL → Uses git sparse checkout
  • Archive URL/path → Downloads and extracts
  • Directory path → Copies directly

Examples:

# Auto-detect GitHub
python scripts/download_skill.py https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/docx --output ./.claude/skills/

# Auto-detect archive
python scripts/download_skill.py https://example.com/my-skill.zip --output ./.claude/skills/

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A aa18f0e0bce3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (288 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,047 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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