Tool Description: Invoke skill

Tool Description: Invoke skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts. It costs 35 tokens per session (373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill-invocation tool that selects an available packaged workflow by name and optionally passes it arguments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to load skills for tasks such as deployment, repository review, or other listed workflows, including directory-specific variants.
Why use it?
It helps coding agents use the right project-specific instructions instead of repeating or guessing workflow steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to load skills for tasks such as deployment, repository review, or other listed workflows, including directory-specific variants.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/piebald-ai/claude-code-system-prompts/tool-description-invoke
About the project

claude-code-system-prompts is a repository that records the system prompts, tool descriptions, agent prompts, and utility prompts used by Claude Code. It serves people who want to inspect how Claude Code structures its built-in agents and tools across releases. The catalogue instruction provides access to material documenting that workflow.

Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts · 12,609 stars · on GitHub

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 Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts --skill tool-description-invoke
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 373 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 $0.00035 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7bc210fe31b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Tool Description: Invoke 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 3d 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.

system-prompts/tool-description-invoke-skill.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Invoke a skill.

A skill is a packaged set of instructions the user or project has set up for a particular kind of task (deploy steps, a review checklist, a repo-specific workflow). Available skills appear in a system-reminder listing with one-line descriptions. When the task at hand is one a listed skill covers, call this tool first — the skill's instructions load into the turn for you to follow in place of your default approach; some skills instead run in a subagent and return the finished result. A skill that runs in the background returns only the agent's name — its result arrives later as a task notification, so don't wait on it or invoke it again in the meantime. Users may also ask for one by name (/<name>, or "slash command"); that's a request to invoke it.

  • skill: exact name from the listing, no leading slash. Plugin skills use plugin:skill. Directory-scoped skills are listed with a path prefix (apps/web:deploy); when both scoped and unscoped variants of a name exist, pick the one whose directory contains the files you're working on (most specific wins; unscoped otherwise).
  • args: optional arguments to pass through.

Only names from the listing (or that the user typed explicitly) are valid. Built-in CLI commands (/help, /clear, …) aren't skills. If a <${SKILL_TAG_NAME}> block is already present this turn, the skill is loaded — follow it directly rather than calling 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. 3d ago First seen · 16 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 7bc210fe31b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Tool Description: Invoke skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts (12,609 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 373 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 2026-09-05.

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