split-into-references

split-into-references is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thedaviddias/skill-check. It costs 0 tokens per session (310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building MCP servers, which let an AI agent use tools to interact with outside services and APIs. It covers servers written in Python or Node/TypeScript and focuses on designing tools around complete tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when integrating an external service, designing agent-facing workflows, or creating an MCP server with FastMCP or the MCP SDK.
Why use it?
It helps avoid exposing disconnected API calls that are difficult for an agent to use. The guide provides a process for planning tools that fit real workflows and limited context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when integrating an external service, designing agent-facing workflows, or creating an MCP server with FastMCP or the MCP SDK.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedaviddias/skill-check/split-into-references
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 thedaviddias/skill-check --skill split-into-references
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedaviddias/skill-check

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 310 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 $0.00310
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00124
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 80d085dff908, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

split-into-references 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.

docs/skills/split-into-references/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

split-into-references

Use when

Use when skill-check reports body.max_lines and you need to modularize a long SKILL.md into maintainable references/*.md docs after running split-body.

Workflow

  1. Run preview first:
    • npx skill-check split-body <skill-dir-or-file>
  2. Apply deterministic split:
    • npx skill-check split-body <skill-dir-or-file> --write
  3. Edit generated references docs to improve readability:
    • tighten headings so each file has one clear purpose
    • add a 1-3 line summary at the top of each references file
    • remove duplicated steps across references files
  4. Keep SKILL.md concise:
    • preserve "Use when", constraints, and expected outcomes
    • keep ## References links current and descriptive
  5. Validate:
    • npx skill-check check <skill-dir-or-file> --no-security-scan

Quality checklist

  • The main SKILL.md stays short and scannable.
  • Each references file is focused and linkable.
  • Links under ## References resolve and match file names.
  • No critical instruction is lost during extraction.

Before/After pattern

Before:

  • one very long SKILL.md containing all operational details.

After:

  • concise SKILL.md with intent + constraints + ## References
  • multiple references/*.md files for detailed procedures.
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 · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 80d085dff908

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split-into-references is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedaviddias/skill-check (194 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 310 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 2026-08-30.