xskill-helper

xskill-helper is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SkillNerds/xskill. It costs 114 tokens per session (3,066 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A client and background service for sharing coding-agent skills across a team and across several agent tools. It also collects and synchronizes agent work histories, called trajectories, with a team server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize or connect a machine to an xskill team server, search or sync shared skills, and inspect or manage the local xskill service and logs.
Why use it?
It keeps shared skills available and updated in different coding tools after the team connects them to one server. It also provides local commands for managing the connection and background service.

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/skillnerds/xskill/xskill-helper
Any agent
npx skills add SkillNerds/xskill --skill xskill-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkillNerds/xskill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skillnerds/xskill/xskill-helper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skillnerds/xskill/xskill-helper.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,066 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 $0.00114 $0.03066
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01533
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00613
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00307

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3265a579a7bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xskill-helper 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 4d 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.

src/xskill/data/skill/xskill-helper/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

xskill-helper

xskill is a thin client + background daemon that (1) mounts your team's shared Skills into every AI-agent tool you use (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Trae, DeepSeek Harness) and (2) quietly collects your agent trajectories and syncs them to a team server. You join a server once, then it keeps skills in sync and auto-updates itself.

xskill init can install this guide into chosen harnesses on this machine. xskill connect also installs it after a team join. Invoke it as /xskill-helper from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and the other supported tools.

All state lives under ~/.xskill/:

File What
~/.xskill/local_init.json local harness scan marker (no team server required)
~/.xskill/team_client.json connection identity (server_url, client_id, join_token) — survives restarts
~/.xskill/connect_daemon.json current background daemon (pid / host task) — used by status/stop
~/.xskill/logs/xskill.*.log split logs (one file per component)
~/.xskill/skill/ the local skill repo everything is mounted from

Getting started

After pip install xskill, local trajectory search does not need a team server. The first xskill traj search checks for a connection. If there is no xskill connect and this machine has not been initialized, it scans detected harnesses, converts their sessions into ~/.xskill/*_sessions, and builds the local index. After that, xskill traj search and xskill traj read work on this computer.

For a guided setup that lists harnesses, turns on trajectory processing, and asks which agents should get this guide:

xskill init

xskill init -y is the non-interactive form: scan every detected harness and install /xskill-helper into all of them. --no-skill skips the guide. --skills-only only installs the guide. --force rescans even if the local index already exists.

Interactive xskill init then asks whether to join a team server. Enter, skip, or an empty address/token all leave the machine usable locally. Do not treat a skipped connect as failure. If they want to connect later, or run a standalone team server:

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 266 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 3265a579a7bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xskill-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkillNerds/xskill (122 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 3,066 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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