packmind-create-command

A guide for creating reusable commands with the Packmind command-line tool. These commands are written workflows that describe repeatable tasks, checks before starting, and optional code examples for GitLab Duo.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document and distribute repeatable development recipes or automation workflows. It covers the command's summary, use cases, validation questions, steps, and examples.
Why use it?
It helps turn multi-step team procedures into a consistent format instead of leaving them as informal instructions. Clear usage conditions and checkpoints reduce the chance of running a workflow with missing context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/packmindhub/packmind/packmind-create-command
Any agent
npx skills add PackmindHub/packmind --skill packmind-create-command
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PackmindHub/packmind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,824 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.02824
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01412
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00282

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2d7ed54087de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

packmind-create-command 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 2d 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.

.gitlab/duo/skills/packmind-create-command/SKILL.md · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Command Creator

This skill provides a complete walkthrough for creating reusable commands via the Packmind CLI.

About Commands

Commands are structured, multi-step workflows that capture repeatable tasks, recipes, and automation patterns. They help teams standardize common development workflows and enable GitLab Duo to execute complex tasks consistently.

What Commands Provide

  1. Multi-step workflows - Structured sequences of actions to accomplish a task
  2. Context validation - Checkpoints to ensure requirements are met before execution
  3. When-to-use guidance - Clear scenarios describing when the command is applicable
  4. Code snippets - Optional examples demonstrating each step's implementation

Command Structure

Every command is drafted as a markdown file with this structure:

# Command Name

## Summary

What the command does, why it's useful, and when it's relevant.

## When to Use

- Scenario 1 when this command applies
- Scenario 2 when this command applies

## Context Validation Checkpoints

- Question 1 to validate before proceeding?
- Question 2 to ensure context is clear?

## Steps

### Step Name

What this step does and how to implement it.

\`\`\`typescript
// Optional code example
\`\`\`

### Another Step

Description without code.

Naming Guidelines

The # Title heading is the display name shown in indexes and dashboards. The slug is auto-generated from it — never write the slug yourself.

Format: Use Title Case with spaces — natural language, not a slug.

  • Capitalize each significant word
  • Start with an action verb (e.g., "Create", "Setup", "Configure")
  • Use spaces between words, never hyphens or underscores
  • Be descriptive and specific (2–5 words)

Examples:

  • Good: "Create API Endpoint", "Setup Database Migration", "Configure CI Pipeline"
  • Bad: "api-endpoint" (slug format — use Title Case with spaces)
  • Bad: "setup migration" (not Title Case)
  • Bad: "create-api-endpoint" (slug format)

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 351 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2d7ed54087de

Subscribe to this mod's changes

packmind-create-command is a skill published in the GitHub repository PackmindHub/packmind (306 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,824 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.

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