Example Skill

An example skill that shows the basic structure of a coding-agent skill. It includes a simple workflow, example code, and references to possible supporting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain skill structure, test skill loading, or show basic practices such as checking resources and validating inputs.
Why use it?
It gives a small pattern to follow when demonstrating or testing how skills are loaded.

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/phil65/agentpool/example-skill
Any agent
npx skills add phil65/agentpool --skill example-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phil65/agentpool

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 254 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 $0.00029 $0.00254
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00127
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured yesterday against content hash ddbecc93d031, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Example 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/example-skill/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Example Skill

Overview

This is an example skill that demonstrates the basic structure of a Claude Code Skill. It shows how to organize instructions, provide examples, and reference additional resources.

Quick Start

When using this skill, follow these steps:

  1. Identify the task: Determine what specific functionality is needed
  2. Check resources: Look for additional files in the skill directory
  3. Follow patterns: Use the examples provided as templates

Examples

Basic Usage

# Example of how this skill might be used
def example_function():
    print("This is an example from the skill")
    return "skill_result"

Advanced Usage

# Command line example
echo "Running skill example"

Additional Resources

This skill may contain additional files:

  • helpers.py: Utility functions
  • templates/: Example templates
  • docs/: Extended documentation

Best Practices

  • Always validate inputs
  • Provide clear error messages
  • Document any assumptions
  • Test functionality before deployment
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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A ddbecc93d031

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Example Skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository phil65/agentpool (184 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 254 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.