build-skill

build-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sshh12/claude-plugins. It costs 86 tokens per session (4,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for creating a Claude Code skill: a reusable set of instructions that Claude follows for a particular kind of task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning, writing, testing, and packaging a skill folder and its SKILL.md instructions.
Why use it?
It turns a problem into a repeatable assistant workflow and helps avoid making instructions that work only for one example.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cc-essentials plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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/sshh12/claude-plugins/build-skill
Any agent
npx skills add sshh12/claude-plugins --skill build-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sshh12/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cc-essentials, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for build-skill

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sshh12/claude-plugins/build-skill.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sshh12/claude-plugins/build-skill)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sshh12/claude-plugins/build-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sshh12/claude-plugins/build-skill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,344 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 $0.00086 $0.04344
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02172
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00869
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00434

Measured 5d ago against content hash a041962e1ebe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-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 5d 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.

plugins/cc-essentials/skills/build-skill/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

build-skill

Helps the user build a Claude Code skill end-to-end. A skill is a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter that Claude loads when its trigger description matches the user's intent — it encodes a workflow Claude should follow consistently.

What makes a good skill

  • Does one thing well — overly broad skills fail more often than overly narrow ones
  • Specific enough to be useful, flexible enough to handle real variation
  • Connects to data sources and tools available in the user's environment
  • Solves a problem the user has actually felt, not a hypothetical
  • Worth running at least weekly — one-off jobs don't justify the authoring cost

The central risk: overfitting

You and the user will iterate on a small handful of test cases because it's fast — they know those cases in and out, and the feedback loop tightens. But the skill will get used hundreds or thousands of times across prompts neither of you have seen. A skill that works only for the test cases is useless. Resist piling on rigid rules to make the current example perfect at the cost of generality. Most edits should make the skill more robust, not more specific. When you're tempted to add a fiddly rule that fixes one case, ask whether it would still help — or hurt — on cases you haven't seen.

Build process

Walk through these stages in order. Skipping the problem-mapping or testing stages is the most common cause of bad skills.

1. Start with the problem, not the solution

What's the painful workflow? What takes too long? What does the user keep re-explaining? Don't open with "I want a skill that..." — open with "Every week I have to..." Surface the real pain before designing anything.

Mine the conversation first. If the user just said "turn this into a skill" or "let's make this reusable", the workflow they want is probably already in the chat. Extract it: the tools used, the sequence of steps, the corrections they made along the way, the input and output formats observed. Confirm the extracted workflow with the user before interviewing further. Don't make them re-explain what they just did.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 5d ago First seen · 220 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A a041962e1ebe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository sshh12/claude-plugins (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 4,344 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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