skill-create

A method for creating new Agent Skills from predefined templates. An Agent Skill is a reusable set of instructions and supporting files that guides an agent through a particular kind of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a basic skill, or create versions that include scripts or an assets folder, with files such as SKILL.md and README.md.
Why use it?
It provides the expected folder structure and starter files, so you do not have to assemble a skill manually or guess which files it needs.

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/skillscatalog/registry/skill-create
Any agent
npx skills add SkillsCatalog/registry --skill skill-create
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SkillsCatalog/registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 675 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 $0.00028 $0.00675
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash 83d1f4803d5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-create 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/create_skill.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-create/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions

Use this skill to create new Agent Skills from templates. It generates a properly structured skill directory with a valid SKILL.md file and optional scripts/assets folders.

When to Use

  • Starting a new skill from scratch
  • Ensuring proper skill structure and naming
  • Quickly prototyping new skill ideas
  • Teaching others how to structure skills

How to Use

Create a new skill with a name:

Create a new skill called "pdf-tools"

Create a skill with a specific template:

Create a new skill called "data-analyzer" using the with-scripts template

Available templates:

  • basic - Just SKILL.md (default)
  • with-scripts - SKILL.md + scripts directory
  • with-assets - SKILL.md + scripts + assets directories

Output

Creates a complete skill directory:

Basic template:

pdf-tools/
├── SKILL.md
└── README.md

With-scripts template:

pdf-tools/
├── SKILL.md
├── README.md
└── scripts/
    └── main.py

With-assets template:

pdf-tools/
├── SKILL.md
├── README.md
├── scripts/
│   └── main.py
└── assets/
    └── .gitkeep

Examples

Basic skill:

User: Create a new skill called "code-formatter"
Agent: Creating skill "code-formatter" with basic template...

       Created:
       ✓ code-formatter/SKILL.md
       ✓ code-formatter/README.md

       Next steps:
       1. Edit SKILL.md with your skill's instructions
       2. Add any supporting files
       3. Run skill-validator to check compliance

Interactive mode:

User: Create a new skill
Agent: I'll help you create a new skill.

       Skill name: code-formatter
       Description: Format code in various languages
       Template: with-scripts
       License: MIT

       Creating...
       ✓ Created code-formatter with with-scripts template

With metadata:

User: Create a new skill called "api-tester" with description "Test REST APIs" and author "acme-corp"
Agent: Creating skill "api-tester"...
       ✓ Created with custom metadata:
         - Description: Test REST APIs
         - Author: acme-corp
         - License: MIT (default)

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 2d ago First seen · 127 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 83d1f4803d5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-create is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkillsCatalog/registry (1 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 675 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 2026-08-31.

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