skill-gen

skill-gen is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 24 tokens per session (5,968 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating, improving, or checking skills that teach an agent how to perform a task. It supports quick creation, a more thorough version with tests and revisions, and quality checks for existing skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a small workflow, develop a thoroughly tested skill, or audit an existing skill.
Why use it?
It gives you a defined way to turn instructions into skills and review whether those skills follow quality guidelines. It is unavailable in projects marked with the LITE scope.

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/rhtevan/agentfs/skill-gen
Any agent
npx skills add rhtevan/agentfs --skill skill-gen
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhtevan/agentfs

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.

agentmods badge for skill-gen

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rhtevan/agentfs/skill-gen.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rhtevan/agentfs/skill-gen)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rhtevan/agentfs/skill-gen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rhtevan/agentfs/skill-gen.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,968 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00024 $0.05968
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02984
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00597

Measured 3d ago against content hash d092f00973e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skill-gen scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1 executable file (scripts/fetch-upstream.sh), 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.

Instruction-override phrasingmediumPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

(hidden instructions, role overrides, "ignore previous instructions")

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/skill-gen/SKILL.md · 614 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 614 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Gen

Scope guard: This skill is not available in LITE scope projects. LITE scope does not support skills or knowledge bundles. If the target project's AGENTS.md contains agentfs-scope: lite, refuse with a clear message.

Create new skills, modify and improve existing ones with built-in AgentFS conventions. Operates in three modes: simple (quick scaffold), advanced (full eval/iterate/optimize loop using upstream Anthropic skill-creator), and skill check (audit existing skills against five quality principles). Default mode is simple; use advanced when requesting "thorough", "with evals", or "production quality".

This is a proxy skill that operates in three modes:

Mode When What Happens
Simple (default) Quick utility skills, SOPs, small workflows Scaffold + write + AgentFS post-creation checklist
Advanced "advanced", "thorough", "with evals", "production quality" Full upstream eval/iterate/optimize loop + AgentFS checklist
Skill Check "check skill", "skill check", "audit skill" Audit existing skill against five quality principles

Mode Selection

Detect mode from user's language:

  • Simple (default): "create a skill", "make this reusable", "turn this into a skill", "skill for this workflow"
  • Advanced: "create a skill, advanced", "thorough skill", "production quality skill", "with evals", "benchmark this skill"
  • Skill Check: "skill check", "scan skill", "check skill", "audit skill", "skill scan", "verify skill quality"

When in doubt, ask: "Do you want a quick skill scaffold, or a thorough process with test cases and evaluation?"


Skill Design Principles

Before creating any skill, understand the three foundational principles that govern skill architecture. These apply to both Simple and Advanced modes.

Non-Interactive Scripts

Scripts under scripts/ MUST be non-interactive — they MUST NOT use read, select, interactive prompts, or any mechanism that blocks waiting for stdin. All inputs MUST be accepted via CLI arguments, environment variables, or input files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 614 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 614 lines · 24 tokens per session scan B d092f00973e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-gen is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 5,968 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (instruction-override phrasing). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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