skill-name

A template for writing instructions for a coding-agent skill. It describes when the skill runs, what steps it follows, what it produces, and which rules it must obey.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a starting point when defining a skill's trigger conditions, workflow, output location or format, and constraints.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent structure for documenting a new skill, so its purpose and expected behavior are clear. The supplied details are too limited to say more about its runtime behavior.

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/shawnla90/recursive-drift/_template
Any agent
npx skills add shawnla90/recursive-drift --skill _template
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnla90/recursive-drift

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 148 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 $0.00016 $0.00148
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00074
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00015

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5639fc8a75b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-name 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.

skills/_template/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Skill Name

Brief description of the skill's purpose.

When to Invoke

  • [Trigger condition 1]
  • [Trigger condition 2]
  • [Manual trigger: user types /skill-name]

Steps

Step 1: [Action]

[Instructions]

Step 2: [Action]

[Instructions]

Step 3: [Action]

[Instructions]

Output

  • Location: [Where the output goes]
  • Format: [What it looks like]

Rules

  1. [Constraint 1]
  2. [Constraint 2]
  3. [Constraint 3]
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 · 37 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 5639fc8a75b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-name is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnla90/recursive-drift (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 148 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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