skillkit-help

A guide that explains what coding-agent skills are, when to use them, and how they differ from subagents. Skills are reusable instructions that change how an agent handles a particular task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn how skills work, decide between a skill and a subagent, or assess whether an existing skill is suitable. It can also direct you to the separate tool for creating one.
Why use it?
It helps you decide whether a skill is needed and routes questions about understanding or checking one before you start building it.

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/rfxlamia/skillkit/skillkit-help
Any agent
npx skills add rfxlamia/skillkit --skill skillkit-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rfxlamia/skillkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 745 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 $0.00066 $0.00745
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00075

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0a3d7874f9fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skillkit-help 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.

skills/skillkit-help/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Routing

Detect which path the user needs and jump directly to it.

User says Route
"what are skills", "how do skills work", "explain", "understand", "not sure", "should I" → Path A
"validate", "check", "review my skill", "is this good" → Path B
"ready to build", "let's create", "make a skill" Tell them: "You're ready — invoke /skillkit directly to start building."
Ambiguous Ask: "Do you want to (A) understand how skills work, (B) validate an existing skill, or are you ready to build (invoke /skillkit)?"

Path A: Understand How Skills Work

Goal: Build a mental model of skills — what they are, when to use them, and whether you actually need one — before starting to build.

Step 1 — Why skills exist

Load and read in full: knowledge/foundation/01-why-skills-exist.md

Summarize for the user: skills are reusable prompt-time instructions that extend your agent's behavior for specific tasks. They live in ~/.claude/skills/ and are invoked via /skill-name.

Step 2 — Skills vs subagents

Load and read: knowledge/foundation/02-skills-vs-subagents-comparison.md

Explain the difference with a concrete example:

  • Skill: "When I type /review-pr, load these code review instructions"
  • Subagent: "Spin up a separate agent with browser tools to scrape and summarize a URL"

Step 3 — Decision framework

Load and read: knowledge/foundation/03-skills-vs-subagents-decision-tree.md

Walk the user through the decision tree for their specific use case.

Step 4 — Platform constraints

Load and read: knowledge/foundation/06-platform-constraints.md

Cover the key rules: frontmatter requirements, size limits, trigger conditions.

Step 5 — Hand off to the builder

Tell the user: "You now have enough context to start building. Invoke /skillkit — it will guide you through the full creation workflow."


Path B: Validate an Existing Skill

Goal: Check an existing skill for quality issues before sharing or publishing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 0a3d7874f9fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skillkit-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository rfxlamia/skillkit (101 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 745 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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