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.
npx agentmods add skills/shareai-lab/lab-skills/agent-buildernpx skills add shareAI-lab/lab-skills --skill agent-buildergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shareAI-lab/lab-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/shareai-lab/lab-skills/agent-builder)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shareai-lab/lab-skills/agent-builder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shareai-lab/lab-skills/agent-builder.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00127 | $0.01223 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00063 | $0.00611 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00245 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00122 |
Grade A, and why
agent-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 6d 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.
This is a copy
86% identical to agent-builder — 25 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent Builder
Build AI agents for any domain - customer service, research, operations, creative work, or specialized business processes.
Applicability
Treat the architecture and orchestration guidance as provider-agnostic. The bundled Python starter code currently uses the Anthropic SDK and an Anthropic model configuration; adapt that implementation layer when using another provider. Do not mistake the example client for a required agent architecture.
The Core Philosophy
The model already knows how to be an agent. Your job is to get out of the way.
An agent is not complex engineering. It's a simple loop that invites the model to act:
LOOP:
Model sees: context + available capabilities
Model decides: act or respond
If act: execute capability, add result, continue
If respond: return to user
That's it. The magic isn't in the code - it's in the model. Your code just provides the opportunity.
The Three Elements
1. Capabilities (What can it DO?)
Atomic actions the agent can perform: search, read, create, send, query, modify.
Design principle: Start with 3-5 capabilities. Add more only when the agent consistently fails because a capability is missing.
2. Knowledge (What does it KNOW?)
Domain expertise injected on-demand: policies, workflows, best practices, schemas.
Design principle: Make knowledge available, not mandatory. Load it when relevant, not upfront.
3. Context (What has happened?)
The conversation history - the thread connecting actions into coherent behavior.
Design principle: Context is precious. Isolate noisy subtasks. Truncate verbose outputs. Protect clarity.
Agent Design Thinking
Before building, understand:
- Purpose: What should this agent accomplish?
- Domain: What world does it operate in? (customer service, research, operations, creative...)
- Capabilities: What 3-5 actions are essential?
- Knowledge: What expertise does it need access to?
- Trust: What decisions can you delegate to the model?
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.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 135 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 49ae310b2617
agent-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository shareAI-lab/lab-skills (313 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,223 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to agent-builder, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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