generate-project-skill

generate-project-skill is a skill for Claude Code from skilld-dev/skilld. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,064 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating or updating an Agent Skill from one software project's files, commands, structure, and working conventions. An Agent Skill is a reusable instruction set for coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a project's build, test, lint, type-check, release, navigation, public workflows, generated files, and files that agents should not edit.
Why use it?
It turns project-specific knowledge into a compact guide, reducing repeated investigation and helping agents follow the project's actual practices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the skilld plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to document a project's build, test, lint, type-check, release, navigation, public workflows, generated files, and files that agents should not edit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skilld-dev/skilld/generate-project-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 skilld-dev/skilld --skill generate-project-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skilld-dev/skilld

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skilld, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,064 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00025 $0.01064
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00426
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00106

Measured 9d ago against content hash c1c69c264c15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-project-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 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/generate-project-skill/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate a project Skill

Create a compact, searchable Skill from the project itself. This Skill is for maintainers who author a draft Skill they own.

Inputs

Use the project directory or prepared project source. Ask for the destination only when the request does not provide one.

Inspect

  1. Read project instructions and decision records first.
  2. Read manifests, exported entry points, and build configuration.
  3. Find the test, lint, typecheck, build, and release commands.
  4. Trace the main public workflows through their real entry points.
  5. Note generated directories and files an Agent must not edit.
  6. Check recent changes when they explain current conventions.

Project navigation

The Skill must let an Agent find any part of the project without a prior index.

  1. Name the project from its manifest. Use the directory name when no manifest names it.
  2. List the entry points the manifest declares, such as main, module, types, exports, and bin.
  3. List the source and documentation directories an Agent reads most.
  4. Use project-relative paths for every file pointer.
  5. Never add a generated directory prefix to a project-relative path.
  6. Give search commands the Agent can repeat, scoped to those directories.
  7. Prefer rg for search. Name the directories to skip in the command.
  8. Tell the Agent when project changes require a new Skill run.

Write the search commands so their results point at real project files.

Skip these paths while collecting project files:

  • version-control data, such as .git
  • dependency directories, such as node_modules and vendor
  • generated output, such as dist, build, target, .output, .nuxt, and .next
  • caches and reports, such as coverage
  • credential files, such as .env and any private key

Skip any file larger than 512 KB. Do not follow symbolic links while collecting project files.

Output

Write one directory whose name matches the Skill name. The directory must contain SKILL.md. Use references/ for architecture details and command guides. Use scripts/ only for reusable automation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 Changed · +6 lines c1c69c264c15
  2. 14d ago Changed · +20 lines 0547f12f2b6d
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  5. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 9c3ca80b0ece
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 48306372ac9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-project-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository skilld-dev/skilld (327 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,064 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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