actor-template

actor-template is a skill for Claude Code from NVZver/claude-marketplace. It costs 60 tokens per session (715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for writing an actor, meaning a skill, command, or workflow that tells an agent how to perform a task. It requires sections for the goal, needed input, ordered steps, result, and limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when authoring or editing a skill, slash command, or agent workflow. It helps define what the agent needs, what it must do, what it returns, and what it must not do.
Why use it?
It prevents task instructions from mixing objectives, background facts, and actions in unclear ways. Requiring an observable result for each step makes the workflow easier to follow and check.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the core plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when authoring or editing a skill, slash command, or agent workflow. It helps define what the agent needs, what it must do, what it returns, and what it must not do.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nvzver/claude-marketplace/actor-template
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 NVZver/claude-marketplace --skill actor-template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVZver/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 715 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 $0.00060 $0.00715
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00072

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7fe53dc9e9c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

actor-template 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 9d 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.

core/skills/actor-template/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trace. On load, print first: =============== [core/skills/actor-template/SKILL.md] [core] ===============

Actor Template

An Actor prescribes how to act (the Goal/Input/Steps/Output/Constraints shape below). It is distinct from Knowledge, which encodes what is true (rules, patterns, references). The two never mix in one file — see ground-rules for the truth half.

The five required sections

Every Actor file must contain exactly these five sections, in this order, no renames, no merges:

  1. Goal — what success looks like, in one sentence. Failure mode without it: the actor wanders.
  2. Input — what the actor needs from the caller. Failure mode without it: the actor invents data.
  3. Steps — numbered, in order. Each Step produces an observable result (a written file, a returned value, a confirmed message). Failure mode without it: a Step without observable result hides ambiguity.
  4. Output — what the actor returns when done. Failure mode without it: callers cannot tell success from in-progress.
  5. Constraints — what the actor must not do; the boundary. Failure mode without it: the actor over-reaches.

One worked example — Summarize a pull request

Goal: Produce a 3-bullet summary of a pull request so a reviewer can decide whether to dig deeper in under 30 seconds.

Input: The PR number; the repository (owner/name).

Steps:

  1. Fetch the PR title, description, and changed-files list via gh pr view <number> --repo <owner/name>. Observable result: the title and description are quoted verbatim in the working scratchpad.
  2. Identify the largest changed file by diff size via gh pr diff <number> --repo <owner/name> | diffstat. Observable result: filename + diff-line count noted.
  3. Write three bullets: (a) what the PR claims to do, (b) the largest mechanical change, (c) any test changes. Observable result: three bullets written to the output, each ≤ 1 line.

Output: Three bullets, ≤ 1 line each, prefixed with the PR number (e.g., #123:).

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 7fe53dc9e9c7

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actor-template is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVZver/claude-marketplace (1 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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