skill-judge

skill-judge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from softaworks/agent-toolkit. It costs 41 tokens per session (6,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for checking whether an Agent Skill, a set of instructions that teaches a coding agent a repeatable task, is well designed. It compares the skill with published guidance and examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing SKILL.md files and skill packages, scoring their quality, and suggesting concrete improvements.
Why use it?
It helps find unclear instructions, missing edge cases, weak structure, and other problems before a skill is used in real work.

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/softaworks/agent-toolkit/skill-judge
Any agent
npx skills add softaworks/agent-toolkit --skill skill-judge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softaworks/agent-toolkit

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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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,532 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 $0.00041 $0.06532
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.03266
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00653

Measured 4d ago against content hash 737ef3628f0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-judge 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.

skills/skill-judge/SKILL.md · 753 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 753 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Judge

Evaluate Agent Skills against official specifications and patterns derived from 17+ official examples.


Core Philosophy

What is a Skill?

A Skill is NOT a tutorial. A Skill is a knowledge externalization mechanism.

Traditional AI knowledge is locked in model parameters. To teach new capabilities:

Traditional: Collect data → GPU cluster → Train → Deploy new version
Cost: $10,000 - $1,000,000+
Timeline: Weeks to months

Skills change this:

Skill: Edit SKILL.md → Save → Takes effect on next invocation
Cost: $0
Timeline: Instant

This is the paradigm shift from "training AI" to "educating AI" — like a hot-swappable LoRA adapter that requires no training. You edit a Markdown file in natural language, and the model's behavior changes.

The Core Formula

Good Skill = Expert-only Knowledge − What Claude Already Knows

A Skill's value is measured by its knowledge delta — the gap between what it provides and what the model already knows.

  • Expert-only knowledge: Decision trees, trade-offs, edge cases, anti-patterns, domain-specific thinking frameworks — things that take years of experience to accumulate
  • What Claude already knows: Basic concepts, standard library usage, common programming patterns, general best practices

When a Skill explains "what is PDF" or "how to write a for-loop", it's compressing knowledge Claude already has. This is token waste — context window is a public resource shared with system prompts, conversation history, other Skills, and user requests.

Tool vs Skill

Concept Essence Function Example
Tool What model CAN do Execute actions bash, read_file, write_file, WebSearch
Skill What model KNOWS how to do Guide decisions PDF processing, MCP building, frontend design

Tools define capability boundaries — without bash tool, model can't execute commands. Skills inject knowledge — without frontend-design Skill, model produces generic UI.

Read the full file on GitHub · 753 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. 4d ago First seen · 753 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 737ef3628f0e

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skill-judge is a skill published in the GitHub repository softaworks/agent-toolkit (2,422 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 6,532 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.