make-skill

make-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sergeyklay/.agents. It costs 80 tokens per session (3,546 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for creating and reviewing Agent Skills according to the agentskills.io specification. An Agent Skill is a focused package of instructions, scripts, and resources that helps an AI agent handle one type of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Authoring, improving, comparing, evaluating, reviewing, and packaging skills, including choosing between skills and alternatives such as MCP servers or project instruction files.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether a skill is appropriate and keeps its instructions focused, clear, and efficient.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Authoring, improving, comparing, evaluating, reviewing, and packaging skills, including choosing between skills and alternatives such as MCP servers or project instruction files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergeyklay/.agents/make-skill
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.

Any agent
npx skills add sergeyklay/.agents --skill make-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergeyklay/.agents

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,546 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Prompt Injection · line 87
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 222
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00080 $0.03546
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01418
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00709
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00355

Measured 1mo ago against content hash eca5af088602, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

make-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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/init_skill.py, scripts/validate_skill.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.

.agents/skills/make-skill/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Creating Agent Skills

Author Agent Skills against the agentskills.io specification. A skill is a self-contained directory of instructions, scripts, and resources that turns a general-purpose agent into a specialist for one focused domain.

Core Philosophy

Context is shared. Your skill's tokens compete with the system prompt, conversation history, other skills, and the user's request. Once SKILL.md loads it stays in context for the rest of the turn. Every line must earn its place.

The agent is already smart. Add only context it lacks. Cut explanations of well-known concepts (PDFs, for-loops, HTTP, JSON) and any sentence whose absence would not confuse a competent agent.

Reason over command. Prefer "Use pdfplumber because it handles multi-column layouts and rotated text better than alternatives" to "ALWAYS use pdfplumber". The reasoning becomes the rubric for cases the skill did not anticipate.

Write for the agent, not the human reader. The audience is an LLM ingesting tokens, not a person browsing a wiki page. Optimize for density and clarity, not visual aesthetics. Visual decoration — hard wraps that imply meaningful line breaks, blockquotes around examples, redundant "why this works" paragraphs after every code block, three-deep ladders of indented bullets, decorative Tip:/Note: wrappers around single sentences — costs tokens and earns nothing. See references/writing-patterns.md § Density for dense-vs-decorative examples.

Skill Anatomy

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md       # required: YAML frontmatter + markdown body
├── scripts/       # optional: executable code; output enters context
├── references/    # optional: docs loaded on demand
├── assets/        # optional: templates, schemas, images
└── agents/        # optional: per-vendor sidecars, e.g. Codex's openai.yaml

Only SKILL.md is required. Drop empty directories. agents/ holds vendor sidecar config rather than skill content; its one current occupant is Codex's agents/openai.yaml, described in references/frontmatter-fields.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 1mo ago Changed · -4 tokens per session eca5af088602
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 1646145716d1
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -72 lines 5aec06a51c33
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines df31b72a5608
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 319 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A b0bfe3bfa48d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

make-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergeyklay/.agents (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 3,546 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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