vsync: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/skill-downloader/SKILL.md

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

A downloader and installer for Claude Code skills from GitHub repositories, archive files, or direct URLs. It places the retrieved skill files in a chosen target directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a skill from GitHub, download a ZIP, TAR.GZ, TGZ, or SKILL archive, or retrieve a skill from a direct URL.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of fetching skill files and handling common archive formats or repository paths.

Skill for Claude Code

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

This is nicepkg/vsync's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vsync itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vsync configures →

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/.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to nicepkg/vsync. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicepkg/vsync/main/.claude/skills/skill-downloader/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/vsync

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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

This is a copy

100% identical to skill-downloader — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/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

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skill-downloader is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/vsync (61 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. It is 100% identical to skill-downloader, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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