claude4-prompt-engineer

claude4-prompt-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from pkarpovich/environment. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,072 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Prompt-writing guidance for Claude 4.x models, including Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku. A prompt is the instruction given to an AI model; prompt engineering means shaping those instructions for a desired result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or optimise system prompts, design agent workflows, and improve prompts for Claude 4.x models.
Why use it?
It helps make model instructions clearer and improve prompts and multi-step AI workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skills plugin — 31 skills, 4 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to write or optimise system prompts, design agent workflows, and improve prompts for Claude 4.x models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pkarpovich/environment/claude4-prompt-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pkarpovich/environment --skill claude4-prompt-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pkarpovich/environment

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 4 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,072 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 unknown 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 $0.00097 $0.02072
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01036
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00207

Measured 10d ago against content hash b997eb9b9a34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude4-prompt-engineer 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.

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.

dotfiles/claude/skills/claude4-prompt-engineer/SKILL.md · 198 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 198 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A b997eb9b9a34

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claude4-prompt-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository pkarpovich/environment (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,072 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 2026-08-31.

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