skill-writing

skill-writing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rust-works/succinctly. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions and examples for writing Claude Code skills, which are reusable task-specific procedures for the coding assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create or improve skill folders, write valid skill metadata, organize references and scripts, and structure instructions using progressive disclosure.
Why use it?
It helps keep skill instructions clear and maintainable by showing what to reveal at a glance and what to store in supporting files.

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/rust-works/succinctly/skill-writing
Any agent
npx skills add rust-works/succinctly --skill skill-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rust-works/succinctly

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-writing

README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,285 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 $0.00035 $0.01285
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00642
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 3d ago against content hash 775def8e7f34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-writing 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.

.claude/skills/skill-writing/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Effective Claude Code Skills

Core Principle: Progressive Disclosure

The most important concept for building skills is progressive disclosure — show just enough information to help Claude decide what to do next, then reveal more details as needed.

  • Keep SKILL.md under 500 lines
  • Move detailed reference material to separate files
  • Reference supporting files so Claude knows when to load them

Skill File Structure

Every skill needs a SKILL.md file with two parts:

---
name: my-skill-name
description: What this skill does and when to use it
---

# Skill Title

[Instructions Claude follows when the skill is invoked]

## Examples
## Guidelines

Directory Structure

my-skill/
├── SKILL.md           # Main instructions (required)
├── reference.md       # Detailed docs (loaded when needed)
├── examples/          # Example outputs
└── scripts/           # Executable scripts

Frontmatter Reference

Field Purpose
name Slash command name (lowercase, hyphens, max 64 chars)
description Recommended - helps Claude decide when to use skill
argument-hint Autocomplete hint, e.g., [issue-number]
disable-model-invocation true = only user can invoke (for deploy, commit, etc.)
user-invocable false = hide from / menu (background knowledge)
allowed-tools Tools Claude can use without permission when skill active
model Override model for this skill
context fork = run in isolated subagent
agent Subagent type when context: fork (Explore, Plan)

Types of Skill Content

Reference Skills (Knowledge)

Add conventions, patterns, or domain knowledge Claude applies to current work:

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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 · 185 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 775def8e7f34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository rust-works/succinctly (51 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,285 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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