prompt-engineering

prompt-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Nmor/the-claude-council. It costs 87 tokens per session (4,903 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to writing prompts that give coding agents clear tasks, context, examples, output formats, and tool instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down tasks, design tool-use prompts, create few-shot examples, evaluate results, and manage prompt versions.
Why use it?
It helps turn one-off prompts into repeatable instructions that are easier to evaluate, maintain, and use in production.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to break down tasks, design tool-use prompts, create few-shot examples, evaluate results, and manage prompt versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nmor/the-claude-council/prompt-engineering
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 Nmor/the-claude-council --skill prompt-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nmor/the-claude-council

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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
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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,903 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 unknown 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 $0.00087 $0.04903
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02452
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00981
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00490

Measured 4d ago against content hash f2fcdf16a8de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-engineering 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 4d 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/prompt-engineering/SKILL.md · 495 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago Changed f2fcdf16a8de
  2. 7d ago First seen · 495 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 27ea8107175e

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prompt-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nmor/the-claude-council (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 4,903 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 2026-09-03.