silo-extension-builder

silo-extension-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from silo-code/silo. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,386 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning a plain-language idea into a working Silo desktop-app extension written in TypeScript. It covers creating, compiling, installing, and uninstalling the extension.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scaffolding an extension, choosing its ID and directory, using Silo APIs, compiling it, and installing or removing it for testing.
Why use it?
It gives a defined path from an idea to an installed extension, including the information needed to name and place the project.

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/silo-code/silo/silo-extension-builder
Any agent
npx skills add silo-code/silo --skill silo-extension-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/silo-code/silo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,386 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 $0.00053 $0.02386
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01193
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00239

Measured 3d ago against content hash c3943815d94f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

silo-extension-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 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/silo-extension-builder/SKILL.md · 306 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 306 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extension Builder

Turn a natural-language description into a working Silo extension. The extension is real, publishable TypeScript — not a prototype or a hack. silo install drops it into Silo immediately; silo uninstall removes it cleanly.

Arguments

The skill accepts two optional arguments: id and path.

  • id — the extension id (e.g. dave.clock). If not provided, ask the user.
  • path — the directory to create the extension in. If not provided, default to /tmp/silo-ext/<id> and confirm with the user.

Parse arguments from the invocation line. Examples:

  • /silo-extension-builder id=dave.clock — id given, use default path
  • /silo-extension-builder path=~/projects/my-ext — path given, ask for id
  • /silo-extension-builder id=dave.clock path=~/projects/my-ext — both given, skip both questions
  • /silo-extension-builder — neither given, ask for both before proceeding

Workflow (always in this order)

  1. Resolve args — extract id and path from the invocation; ask the user for any that are missing
  2. Scaffold — run npx create-silo-extension to create the directory structure and manifest
  3. Plan — identify which ctx.* APIs the extension needs (see API Reference below)
  4. Write the implementation to <path>/src/index.tsx (overwrites the scaffold placeholder)
  5. Compile with esbuild (output to <path>/dist/index.js)
  6. Ask — show the user the compiled output path and ask if they want to install it now
  7. Install (only if the user says yes) via silo install <path>
  8. Tell the user what to look for in Silo

Choosing an extension id

If the user didn't supply one, ask before writing any files. Pick a namespaced id that reflects what the extension does: dave.clock, dave.tasks, dave.git-branch, etc. The user's name or handle makes a natural namespace.

Step 2 — Scaffold

Run create-silo-extension with all known args to avoid interactive prompts. Prefer the local build when inside the Silo repo; fall back to npx otherwise:

Read the full file on GitHub · 306 lines

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 · 306 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c3943815d94f

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silo-extension-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository silo-code/silo (53 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,386 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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