example-skill

example-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete example skill showing how to structure an agent skill, including references, progressive disclosure, and completion checks. Progressive disclosure means loading detailed guidance only when it is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a template, demonstration, or regression fixture when creating or validating agent skills.
Why use it?
It provides a tested baseline for learning what a well-formed skill looks like and for checking skill-analysis tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the gold-standard-test plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/example-skill
Any agent
npx skills add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill example-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install gold-standard-test, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 407 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 $0.00067 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00041

Measured yesterday against content hash d0456d7872a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

example-skill 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/agent-scaffolders/tests/gold-standard-plugin/skills/example-skill/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Gold Standard Example Skill

This skill demonstrates the canonical structure for a compliant Agent Skill.

When analyzed by agent-scaffolders, this fixture MUST:

  • Score maturity >= L2 (structured skill + references directory)
  • Produce zero Critical or Error findings
  • Identify at least 2 patterns: Progressive Disclosure, Acceptance Criteria Gate
  • Score Structure >= 4/5, Security = 5/5

Execution Flow

This skill uses Progressive Disclosure. Load only what you need:

  1. For acceptance criteria and completion gates -> read ./acceptance-criteria.md
  2. For analysis notes and known patterns in this fixture -> read ./analysis-notes.md

Step 1: Orient

Identify what the user needs:

  • Demo: Show the skill structure and explain the Progressive Disclosure pattern
  • Validate: Run analyze-plugin against this fixture and confirm expected scores
  • Reference: Use this SKILL.md as a template baseline for new skill scaffolding

Step 2: Execute

Present the relevant output based on the user's goal. Always confirm the acceptance criteria in ./acceptance-criteria.md are satisfied before marking complete.

Design Principles Demonstrated

Principle Implementation
Progressive Disclosure Deep content in references/, lean SKILL.md
Acceptance Criteria Gate Explicit checklist in ./acceptance-criteria.md
Structured Output Table-formatted step summary
Trigger Vocabulary Rich description with multiple phrasing variants
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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A d0456d7872a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

example-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 407 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 2026-09-03.