snyk-vulnbench: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/blog-writer/SKILL.md

blog-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from snyk-labs/snyk-vulnbench. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,363 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of instructions that guides an AI coding agent when it writes technical blog posts in a specified style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce technical blog posts that follow the chosen style.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent writing approach instead of requiring the style to be explained each time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is snyk-labs/snyk-vulnbench's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on snyk-vulnbench itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything snyk-vulnbench configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to snyk-labs/snyk-vulnbench. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snyk-labs/snyk-vulnbench/main/.agents/skills/blog-writer/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/snyk-labs/snyk-vulnbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,363 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 $0.00000 $0.01363
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00545
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00273
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00136

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9b7323748d7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blog-writer 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/blog-writer/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Style Guide: Technical Blog Posts

Instructions for AI coding agents producing technical blog posts in this style.


Voice and personality

Write as a practitioner talking to a peer, not a professor lecturing students.

  • First person throughout. Use "we", "I", "let me", "you". Not "the author" or "one should".
  • Direct address. Talk to the reader as "you". "You want to add a new fixture." Not "Users can add new fixtures."
  • Acknowledge failures openly. The reader trusts you more when you share what went wrong. "This took some debugging. Let me save you the pain." is better than silently presenting the polished solution.
  • No marketing tone. Never say "powerful", "robust", "seamlessly", "effortlessly", "cutting-edge", "leverage". These words signal that you're selling something.
  • No academic hedging. Don't say "it may be the case that" or "one potential consideration is". Say what you know.

Formality level

Casual but precise. You can drop a contraction ("there's", "won't", "doesn't") anywhere. Short sentences are fine. Fragments are fine when they add emphasis. But technical precision is non-negotiable — approximate descriptions of how code works are worse than being blunt.


Opening

Start with the reader's problem or question, not with what you're going to build.

Good: "So you're building with AI coding agents and you want to know: is Opus actually better than Sonnet for this task? ... You need a systematic harness."

Bad: "In this post we will build a benchmarking framework for AI coding agents."

The first paragraph should make the reader feel seen. What are they wondering? What's the gap between where they are and where they want to be?


Structure

Use numbered steps for the main walkthrough. Each step title should name both the thing and its purpose:

  • "Step 1: The fixtures — intentionally broken code" (not just "Step 1: Fixtures")
  • "Step 5: Getting token counts right (there are gotchas)" (not "Step 5: Token counting")

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 1mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9b7323748d7a

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blog-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository snyk-labs/snyk-vulnbench (4 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,363 tokens. 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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