skill-creator

A skill-authoring and review guide for Pi, an AI coding environment. It explains how to structure, scaffold, validate, and improve reusable skills and their supporting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new skill, review an existing SKILL.md, or organize related scripts, references, and assets.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to keep skill instructions focused, discoverable, and easy for the agent to load when needed.

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/ssube/conclave/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add ssube/conclave --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssube/conclave

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,846 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 $0.00057 $0.01846
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00923
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00185

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4a01594b7106, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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/init_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.

pi/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Guide for creating effective skills. Merged from the Agent Skills specification and the aivena skill-creator by Espen Nilsen.

Quick Reference

# Scaffold a new skill
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/init_skill.py <skill-name> --path <target-directory>

# Example: create a new skill in your skills directory
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/init_skill.py my-new-skill --path ./skills

Core Principles

1. Context Is a Public Good

The context window is shared with the system prompt, conversation history, other skills, and the user's request. Default assumption: Claude is already very smart. Only add context Claude doesn't already have.

Challenge each piece: "Does Claude really need this?" and "Does this justify its token cost?"

Prefer concise examples over verbose explanations.

2. Progressive Disclosure

Skills use three-level loading:

  1. Metadata (name + description) — Always in context. ~100 words. This is the trigger.
  2. SKILL.md body — Loaded on-demand when the skill triggers. Keep under 500 lines.
  3. Bundled resources — Loaded only when specifically needed. Unlimited size.

If SKILL.md approaches 500 lines, split content into references/ files and link to them.

3. Degrees of Freedom

Match specificity to fragility:

  • High freedom (text instructions): Multiple approaches valid, context-dependent decisions
  • Medium freedom (pseudocode/scripts with parameters): Preferred pattern exists, some variation OK
  • Low freedom (exact scripts, few parameters): Operations fragile, consistency critical

A narrow bridge needs guardrails. An open field allows many routes.

Skill Structure

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md              # Required: frontmatter + instructions
├── scripts/              # Executable code (Python/Bash)
│   └── process.sh
├── references/           # Detailed docs loaded on-demand
│   └── api-reference.md
└── assets/               # Files used in output (templates, images)
    └── template.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 257 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 4a01594b7106

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository ssube/conclave (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,846 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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