skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code from tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,376 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skill-creator, MIT.

A guide for creating skills, which are instruction packages that give an agent specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning a skill, writing its required SKILL.md file, and organizing optional scripts, references, and other resources.
Why use it?
It helps turn repeated domain procedures into an organized, reusable skill instead of relying on ad-hoc prompts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 20 skills, 17 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Planning a skill, writing its required SKILL.md file, and organizing optional scripts, references, and other resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin/skill-creator
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.

Any agent
npx skills add tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 17 commands, 1 MCP server.

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 skill-creator

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin/skill-creator"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin/skill-creator.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,376 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00045 $0.02376
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01188
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00238

Measured 7d ago against content hash bd2381598aee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/init_skill.py, scripts/package_skill.py, scripts/quick_validate.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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to skill-creator — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/compound-engineering/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 211 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.

About Skills

Skills are modular, self-contained packages that extend Claude's capabilities by providing specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific domains or tasks—they transform Claude from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.

What Skills Provide

  1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
  2. Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
  3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
  4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks

Anatomy of a Skill

Every skill consists of a required SKILL.md file and optional bundled resources:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md (required)
│   ├── YAML frontmatter metadata (required)
│   │   ├── name: (required)
│   │   └── description: (required)
│   └── Markdown instructions (required)
└── Bundled Resources (optional)
    ├── scripts/          - Executable code (Python/Bash/etc.)
    ├── references/       - Documentation intended to be loaded into context as needed
    └── assets/           - Files used in output (templates, icons, fonts, etc.)
SKILL.md (required)

Metadata Quality: The name and description in YAML frontmatter determine when Claude will use the skill. Be specific about what the skill does and when to use it. Use the third-person (e.g. "This skill should be used when..." instead of "Use this skill when...").

Bundled Resources (optional)
Scripts (scripts/)

Executable code (Python/Bash/etc.) for tasks that require deterministic reliability or are repeatedly rewritten.

  • When to include: When the same code is being rewritten repeatedly or deterministic reliability is needed
  • Example: scripts/rotate_pdf.py for PDF rotation tasks
  • Benefits: Token efficient, deterministic, may be executed without loading into context
  • Note: Scripts may still need to be read by Claude for patching or environment-specific adjustments

Read the full file on GitHub · 211 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. 7d ago First seen · 211 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A bd2381598aee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository tajmahal226/compound-engineering-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,376 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to skill-creator, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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