skill-catalog-authoring

skill-catalog-authoring is a skill for Claude Code from shennawardana23/skillme. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,892 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for creating and maintaining skills in a skill catalogue, including the files and evaluation cases each skill needs. It also explains how to check those evaluations with the catalogue's test runner.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a skill, update its evaluation cases, validate the skill structure, or run its evaluation suite.
Why use it?
It prevents skills from being added with missing files, incorrect names, or untested instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is go build -o smeval ./cmd/smeval.

Part of the skillme plugin — 137 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to add a skill, update its evaluation cases, validate the skill structure, or run its evaluation suite.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shennawardana23/skillme
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shennawardana23/skillme/skill-catalog-authoring

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillme, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 137 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,892 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.
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 $0.00096 $0.01892
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00946
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00189

Measured 9d ago against content hash 155cf5de472a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-catalog-authoring 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 9d 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/skill-catalog-authoring/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Catalog Authoring

This plugin (skillme) is a catalog of Claude Code skills, each shipped with an eval suite graded by smeval — this repository's own eval runner (cmd/smeval, plain Go, no third-party dependency) — so a skill's quality is measurable and re-checked in CI on every change, rather than trusted on first impression. smeval follows Anthropic's documented Agent Skills evaluation methodology (https://agentskills.io/skill-creation/evaluating-skills): a prompt and assertions per case, graded with concrete evidence. Follow this process whenever adding a skill to skills/ or modifying an existing one's evals/.

Directory layout for a new skill

skills/<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md              # required
├── references/           # optional — detailed docs loaded only when needed
├── examples/              # optional — working code examples
└── evals/
    └── evals.json         # required — smeval's case file for this skill

Use kebab-case for <skill-name>. evals.json's top-level skill_name must match the directory name exactly — smeval validate rejects a mismatch.

SKILL.md conventions

Frontmatter follows the official spec at https://agentskills.io/specification exactly — the fields below are the only ones a validator will accept; anything else (including a bare top-level version:) is rejected:

Field Required Constraint
name Yes 1–64 chars, lowercase unicode alphanumeric + hyphens, no leading/trailing/double hyphen, must equal the directory name exactly
description Yes 1–1024 chars. Third person ("This skill should be used when the user asks to..."), packed with concrete quoted trigger phrases, not a vague topic label
license No Short license name or reference to a bundled LICENSE
compatibility No 1–500 chars. Only include if there's a real environment requirement (e.g. "Requires Go 1.26+ and google.golang.org/adk/v2")
metadata No String→string map for anything else — this is where version goes (metadata: { version: "0.1.0" }), never as a bare top-level field
allowed-tools No Space-separated pre-approved tools (experimental, client-dependent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 160 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 155cf5de472a

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skill-catalog-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository shennawardana23/skillme (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,892 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 2026-09-03.

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