Tool Description: Skill

Tool Description: Skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openonion/connectonion. It costs 14 tokens per session (334 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A built-in instruction for choosing and running specialized skills during a coding-agent conversation. It also explains how slash commands such as `/commit` or `/review-pr` invoke those skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running named skills, handling slash commands, and passing optional arguments to them.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to route a request to the right specialized instructions instead of handling every task from scratch.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Running named skills, handling slash commands, and passing optional arguments to them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openonion/connectonion/tool-description
About the project

ConnectOnion is an open-source, template-first toolkit for building, debugging, deploying, and operating AI agents. Developers use its command-line tools and Python runtime to create agents, add tools, connect services, deploy them, and make them callable by other agents, while the catalogue entries are related agents, skills, and instructions.

openonion/connectonion · 1,497 stars · on GitHub · docs.connectonion.com

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 openonion/connectonion --skill tool-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openonion/connectonion

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 334 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 $0.00014 $0.00334
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00134
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 088160fc4d56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Tool Description: 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 1mo 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.

connectonion/useful_prompts/cc_prompt/prompts/tools/tool-description-skill.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Execute a skill within the main conversation

When users ask you to perform tasks, check if any of the available skills match. Skills provide specialized capabilities and domain knowledge.

When users reference a "slash command" or "/" (e.g., "/commit", "/review-pr"), they are referring to a skill. Use this tool to invoke it.

How to invoke:

  • Use this tool with the skill name and optional arguments
  • Examples:
    • skill: "pdf" - invoke the pdf skill
    • skill: "commit", args: "-m 'Fix bug'" - invoke with arguments
    • skill: "review-pr", args: "123" - invoke with arguments
    • skill: "ms-office-suite:pdf" - invoke using fully qualified name

Important:

  • Available skills are listed in system-reminder messages in the conversation
  • When a skill matches the user's request, this is a BLOCKING REQUIREMENT: invoke the relevant Skill tool BEFORE generating any other response about the task
  • NEVER mention a skill without actually calling this tool
  • Do not invoke a skill that is already running
  • Do not use this tool for built-in CLI commands (like /help, /clear, etc.)
  • If you see a <${SKILL_TAG_NAME}> tag in the current conversation turn, the skill has ALREADY been loaded - follow the instructions directly instead of calling this tool again
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 · 29 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 088160fc4d56

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Tool Description: Skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository openonion/connectonion (1,497 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 334 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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