skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from plurigrid/asi. It costs 41 tokens per session (565 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating skills: reusable instruction packages that extend an AI coding agent with specialist knowledge, workflows, or tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or updating a skill, including its main instructions and optional scripts, references, or templates.
Why use it?
It helps turn repeated instructions into a clear, structured skill that an agent can use consistently.

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/plurigrid/asi/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add plurigrid/asi --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plurigrid/asi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 565 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 $0.00041 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash cb92b798fbb1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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.

ies/music-topos/.agents/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Skills are modular packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools.

Core Principles

Concise is Key

The context window is a shared resource. Only add context Claude doesn't already have. Challenge each piece: "Does Claude really need this?"

Anatomy of a Skill

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│   ├── YAML frontmatter (name, description)
│   └── Markdown instructions
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
    ├── scripts/      - Executable code
    ├── references/   - Documentation
    └── assets/       - Templates, images

SKILL.md Format

---
name: my-skill-name
description: A clear description of what this skill does and when to use it
---

# My Skill Name

[Instructions for Claude when this skill is active]

## Examples
- Example usage 1
- Example usage 2

## Guidelines
- Guideline 1
- Guideline 2

Skill Creation Process

Step 1: Understand with Examples

Gather concrete examples of how the skill will be used. Ask:

  • "What functionality should this skill support?"
  • "What would a user say that should trigger this skill?"

Step 2: Plan Reusable Contents

Analyze examples to identify:

  • Scripts: Code that gets rewritten repeatedly
  • References: Documentation Claude needs to reference
  • Assets: Templates, images for output

Step 3: Initialize

Create the skill directory structure with SKILL.md and resource folders.

Step 4: Implement

  • Start with reusable resources (scripts, references, assets)
  • Write clear SKILL.md with proper frontmatter
  • Test scripts by actually running them

Step 5: Iterate

Use the skill on real tasks, notice struggles, improve.

Progressive Disclosure

Keep SKILL.md under 500 lines. Split content:

# PDF Processing

## Quick start
[code example]

## Advanced features
- **Form filling**: See [FORMS.md](FORMS.md)
- **API reference**: See [REFERENCE.md](REFERENCE.md)

What NOT to Include

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

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 · 98 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A cb92b798fbb1

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository plurigrid/asi (62 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 565 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 2026-09-01.

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