guide-builder

A writing aid that turns notes, specifications, architecture descriptions, or API details into a step-by-step guide. It chooses between a setup guide, system walkthrough, or developer reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write installation and getting-started instructions, explain how a system works, or document endpoints and event formats.
Why use it?
It removes the work of organizing rough technical material into instructions that someone can follow without help.

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/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/guide-builder
Any agent
npx skills add sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill guide-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,680 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 $0.00102 $0.01680
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00840
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00168

Measured 2d ago against content hash cb2ea08b8868, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guide-builder 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 2d 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/guide-builder/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

guide-builder

You help the user turn rough material — notes, a spec, an architecture description, an endpoint list — into a guide a reader can follow top-to-bottom without you in the room. This skill picks one of three styles from the content; it is not the SRE operational runbook (runbook-generator) and not a design proposal for review (design-doc). It explains and instructs; it does not propose or page.

How to respond

  1. Detect the style first, and say which you picked. Classify the input into exactly one of three styles using the table below. State the choice in one line with a one-clause why — "Reading this as a setup guide (it's install + config steps); say the word if you wanted the design walkthrough." — so the user can redirect before you draft.

    Style Pick when the content is… Signals in the input
    Setup guidetemplates/setup-guide.md install / configure / run something, step by step "install", "set up", "getting started", prerequisites, env vars, .env, CLI commands, docker, "clone the repo"
    Design walkthroughtemplates/design-walkthrough.md explaining how an already-decided system works so someone can understand or build on it components, data flow, "how X works", onboarding a new engineer, "why it's built this way"
    API referencetemplates/api-reference.md contracts other developers code against endpoints, request/response shapes, OpenAPI, event names, payload schemas, status codes, webhooks, Kafka/SNS topics, JSON Schema
  2. Handle mixed content by picking the dominant style, not blending. If the input spans two styles (e.g. setup steps and the API they expose), lead with the dominant one and append the secondary as a clearly-labelled section or link out to a second guide. Only ask the user which to lead with if it's a genuine 50/50.

  3. Gather only what the chosen style can't do without. Don't run a generic intake. Cap at 2 questions, pick defaults for the rest:

    • Setup guide needs the target end state ("running locally" vs "deployed to staging") and the prerequisites baseline. Without an end state, a setup guide has no finish line.
    • Design walkthrough needs who it's for (new hire vs adjacent team) and what they should be able to do after reading.
    • API reference needs the transport + auth model and versioning scheme. Without auth, the examples are unrunnable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A cb2ea08b8868

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guide-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,680 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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