skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Poorgramer-Zack/copilot-cli-things. It costs 61 tokens per session (6,811 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-creator, MIT.

A workflow for creating, testing, reviewing, and improving skills stored in SKILL.md files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a skill's intent, write test prompts, run evaluations, compare results, revise instructions, and optimize the skill description.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to check whether a skill triggers correctly and produces better results than having no skill instructions.

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/poorgramer-zack/copilot-cli-things/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add Poorgramer-Zack/copilot-cli-things --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Poorgramer-Zack/copilot-cli-things

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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/poorgramer-zack/copilot-cli-things/skill-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/poorgramer-zack/copilot-cli-things/skill-creator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,811 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00061 $0.06811
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.03406
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00681

Measured 3d ago against content hash 649601e86b84, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (eval-viewer/generate_review.py, scripts/__init__.py, scripts/aggregate_benchmark.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to skill-creator — 81 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/skill-creator/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 470 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 470 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create, test, and iteratively improve skills.

The loop: draft skill → write test prompts → run with-skill and baseline → evaluate (qualitative via eval-viewer/generate_review.py + quantitative benchmarks) → rewrite based on feedback → repeat → expand test set.

Figure out where the user is in this process and help them progress. If they already have a draft, jump straight to eval/iterate. If they say "just vibe with me", skip the formal evals.

After the skill is done, run the description optimization script to improve triggering accuracy.

Cool? Cool.

Communicating with the user

Users range from non-technical to expert. Pay attention to context cues and adjust your language:

  • "evaluation" and "benchmark" are borderline, but OK
  • For "JSON" and "assertion", look for cues that the user knows these terms before using them without explanation

Briefly explain terms if in doubt.


Creating a skill

Capture Intent

Start by understanding the user's intent. The current conversation might already contain a workflow the user wants to capture (e.g., they say "turn this into a skill"). If so, extract answers from the conversation history first — the tools used, the sequence of steps, corrections the user made, input/output formats observed. The user may need to fill the gaps, and should confirm before proceeding to the next step.

  1. What should this skill enable Claude to do?
  2. When should this skill trigger? (what user phrases/contexts)
  3. What's the expected output format?
  4. Should we set up test cases to verify the skill works? Skills with objectively verifiable outputs (file transforms, data extraction, code generation, fixed workflow steps) benefit from test cases. Skills with subjective outputs (writing style, art) often don't need them. Suggest the appropriate default based on the skill type, but let the user decide.

Interview and Research

Proactively ask questions about edge cases, input/output formats, example files, success criteria, and dependencies. Wait to write test prompts until you've got this part ironed out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 470 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 · 470 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 649601e86b84

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Poorgramer-Zack/copilot-cli-things (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 6,811 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to skill-creator, differing in 81 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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