skill-author

skill-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pinvou/pinvou-agent. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating a coding-agent skill, which is a set of instructions that teaches an agent how to handle a specific kind of request. It produces the required SKILL.md file and can help define its name, scope, triggers, and workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a new skill, write its SKILL.md, add references when needed, and prepare optional packaging guidance when the user asks for an installable bundle.
Why use it?
It turns a rough capability idea into a structured skill with clear boundaries and instructions. This reduces missing requirements and prevents a skill from being confused with a normal script or an installable package.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define a new skill, write its SKILL.md, add references when needed, and prepare optional packaging guidance when the user asks for an installable bundle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author
About the project

Pinvou/pinvou-agent is an open-source desktop workspace where an AI agent helps with work, visual design, and software development. People use it to work with files and knowledge, create editable visual artifacts, connect coding agents to projects, and extend the workspace with tools, MCP servers, skills, and workflows; the catalogue skills add capabilities to that environment.

Pinvou/pinvou-agent · 1,712 stars · on GitHub · pinvou.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 Pinvou/pinvou-agent --skill skill-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pinvou/pinvou-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pinvou/pinvou-agent/skill-author.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,199 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00101 $0.01199
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00120

Measured today against content hash ede14c794894, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-author 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 today.

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.

pinvou3-app/src-tauri/resources/common/skill-marketplace/skill-author/SKILL.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

技能创建(skill-author)

把用户的一句描述,变成一个可用的技能SKILL.md 目录)。规范与「插件包标准化」 (package-author)同源;本技能只管「从描述到 SKILL.md」,打包交给 package-author 的规则。

何时用 / 何时不用

  • ✅ 用:用户说"写个技能 / 创建 skill / 生成 SKILL.md / 做个 XX 技能",或描述了一个 想要的能力但还没有技能文件。
  • ❌ 不用:用户已有技能文件、只是要打包/标准化 → 走「插件包标准化」;或只是写普通 脚本/网页(非技能);或要装/卸/开关某个已存在的工具。

先问清(问清再动手,别猜)

  1. 技能做什么:一句话说清能力边界(不要贪多,一个技能干一件事)。
  2. 何时触发:用户在什么场景/说什么话时该用这个技能?
  3. 现成素材:有没有要一起打包的脚本、命令、资料、模板?
  4. 命名:技能名(英文 kebab-case,语义化小写,如 git-commit-helper)。

用户没给全时,先补问;用户说"你看着办"才自行定,并在产出里说明可改。

生成 SKILL.md

frontmatter(必填两项):

---
name: <name>                 # [a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64},语义化小写 kebab-case
description: <做什么 + 何时用>  # 模型触发它的依据,一句话写清楚
---

正文(给模型看的指令),按需包含:

  • 目标:这个技能要达成什么。
  • 步骤/流程:明确、可执行的步骤(1/2/3…)。
  • 红线:绝不能做的事(编造 ID/凭据、越界调用等)。
  • 示例:一两个典型输入→输出。

硬规则:

  • name 建议 ASCII 小写 kebab-case;导入校验实际允许 [a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64}(含大写),禁 ./../路径分隔符/空格。
  • description 必须讲清「做什么 + 何时用」,别只写"一个有用的技能"。
  • 参考资料放 references/*.md,正文只列目录(渐进披露);别把大段内容全塞进正文。
  • 技能要自包含:指令里写清依赖、前置条件、失败处理。

落盘:写 skills/<name>/SKILL.md(相对工作目录),并列出文件清单。

可选:导出标准包(结合「插件包标准化」)

用户要"能上传/能安装/给我一个包"时,按 package-author 的规则补齐:

  1. 目录:<id>/skills/<name>/SKILL.md(+ 可选 references/)。
  2. plugin.jsonmanifest_version:1id 全小写、components.skills:[{id:<name>, dir:"skills/<name>"}]
  3. 图标:生成一个简约 icon.svg(24×24 几何、stroke="currentColor"、无外链/脚本)。
  4. 校验命名与布局 → 产出 <id>/ 目录或 <id>.zip(zip 根就是 plugin.json,别多套一层)。

收尾:询问是否安装

  • 生成(或导出)完成后,主动问用户:"已生成 XXX 技能,要安装吗?"
  • 说明安装方式:把 <id>.zip 拖进插件中心上传,或到商店「技能」区点安装。
  • 安装/上传成功后的默认开关随会话模式而异:普通会话默认启用;代码(code)会话默认停用,需用户在工具/技能开关中手动启用。
  • 不要擅自安装/上传,等用户确认;用户说"装"再给下一步指引。

校验清单(交活前逐条过)

  1. SKILL.md frontmatter 有 name + descriptionname 合法([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64},建议小写 kebab-case)。
  2. 正文有可执行步骤 + 红线(若有)。
  3. (若导出)plugin.json 齐、目录布局对、有 icon.svg
  4. 已询问用户是否安装,未擅自操作。
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. today Changed · +1 lines ede14c794894
  2. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A a63ce98ec2e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pinvou/pinvou-agent (1,712 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,199 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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