skill-author

skill-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from robium-ai/robium. It costs 160 tokens per session (2,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A toolkit for creating and checking reusable instructions, called skills, for coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a skill from a template, check an existing skill before committing, or improve the wording that determines when it is selected.
Why use it?
It helps keep new skills consistent, easy to trigger, short enough to maintain, and free of made-up rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the robium plugin — 72 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks 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/robium-ai/robium/2.0.1
Any agent
npx skills add robium-ai/robium --skill 2.0.1
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robium-ai/robium

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install robium, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 72 skills, 1 agent, 6 hooks.

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-author

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robium-ai/robium/2.0.1.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/robium-ai/robium/2.0.1)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/robium-ai/robium/2.0.1"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/robium-ai/robium/2.0.1.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 160 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,294 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 $0.00160 $0.02294
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.01147
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00229

Measured 5d ago against content hash 669374af602a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-author 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate_skills.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

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

archive/skill-author/2.0.1/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skill-author

The meta-skill that governs how new robium skills get authored and how the catalog's quality bar gets enforced. It is the repo's authoring machinery: fresh authoring against the quality bar; absorption and refining live in the learning-loop skill, mining in the mining skill.

When to use this skill

  • Creating a brand-new skill under skills/<name>/ from the template.
  • Auditing an existing skill against the quality bar, or running the validator before a commit.
  • Tuning a skill's frontmatter description for better trigger accuracy, or evaluating whether a skill fires on the phrasing it should.
  • Cross-reference: absorbing learnings/ notes or refining the catalog (prune/dedup/staleness) — use the learning-loop skill instead. Extracting reusable patterns out of example repos (this repo's own apps or external ones) — use the mining skill instead.
  • Cross-reference: for building an actual robotics application (choosing a stack, scaffolding a repo), use the architect skill and the domain skills it routes to instead — this skill only edits skills, never application code.

Key directives

  • Delegation posture: embed. This skill owns the authoring workflow outright; there is no good upstream skill for "how to write a robium skill," so the process lives here rather than being linked out.
  • Knowledge goes to the lowest skill that can hold it — a Nav2 costmap gotcha belongs in nav2, not architect; a ROS 2 launch-file quirk belongs in ros2, not a per-tool skill built on top of it. Never park knowledge one level higher than where it will actually be looked up.
  • Always run scripts/validate_skills.py before committing any skill change — whether the change came from fresh authoring here, a learning-loop absorb, or a mining distillation. A skill that fails the validator is not done.
  • For eval design and description-wording tuning, wrap Claude's own skill-creator skill rather than reinventing evals or trigger-testing machinery. skill-author supplies the robium-specific quality bar and workflow; skill-creator supplies the generic eval tooling.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 5d ago First seen · 163 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 669374af602a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository robium-ai/robium (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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