skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ouro-ai-labs/ouro. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,442 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or updating skills, which are instruction packages that extend what a coding agent can do for a specialized workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a skill's required SKILL.md file, metadata, optional scripts or references, and appropriate workflow rules.
Why use it?
It helps keep skill instructions focused, usable, and flexible enough for real cases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define a skill's required SKILL.md file, metadata, optional scripts or references, and appropriate workflow rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ouro-ai-labs/ouro/skill-creator
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 ouro-ai-labs/ouro --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ouro-ai-labs/ouro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,442 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 124
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • high Rogue Agent · line 199
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 124
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00042 $0.01442
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00721
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00144

Measured 10d ago against content hash f1a74965bcdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/init_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.

ouro/capabilities/skills/system/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

This skill guides you through creating effective ouro skills that extend the agent's capabilities.

Core Principles

Concise is Key

Every line in a skill costs tokens. Write tightly:

  • Remove filler words ("please", "you should", "it's important to")
  • Use imperative/infinitive form ("Run script" not "You should run the script")
  • Prefer bullet lists over prose
  • Skip obvious context the LLM already knows

Set Appropriate Degrees of Freedom

  • Too specific = rigid, breaks on edge cases
  • Too broad = vague, inconsistent outputs
  • Just right = clear guardrails with room for judgment

Example: Instead of "Always use pytest", say "Use pytest for Python tests; adapt for other languages."

Anatomy of a Skill

Every skill consists of a required SKILL.md file and optional bundled resources:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│   ├── YAML frontmatter metadata (required)
│   │   ├── name: (required)
│   │   └── description: (required)
│   └── Markdown instructions (required)
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
    ├── scripts/          - Executable code (Python/Bash/etc.)
    ├── references/       - Documentation to load into context as needed
    └── assets/           - Files used in output (templates, icons, fonts, etc.)

SKILL.md (required)

Every SKILL.md consists of:

  • Frontmatter (YAML): Contains name and description fields. These are the only fields that ouro reads to determine when the skill gets used, thus it is very important to be clear and comprehensive in describing what the skill is, and when it should be used.
  • Body (Markdown): Instructions and guidance for using the skill. Only loaded AFTER the skill triggers.

Bundled Resources (optional)

Skills can include three types of resources:

Type Purpose When to use
scripts/ Executable code (Python, Bash, etc.) Reusable automation, data processing, API calls
references/ Documentation files (.md) Schemas, API docs, style guides
assets/ Output files (templates, images) Boilerplate projects, icon sets, fonts

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 213 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f1a74965bcdf

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ouro-ai-labs/ouro (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,442 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.