build-my-skill

build-my-skill is a skill for Claude Code from tonyfadel23/skill-inspector. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,731 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A builder for custom coding-agent workflows, called skill trees, that combines steps, sub-agents, checks, and improvement loops into valid SKILL.md files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design pipelines such as research, prototyping, or quality audits and generate their skill instructions.
Why use it?
It turns a high-level workflow idea into the files and structure needed to run it, while collecting its inputs, outputs, constraints, and tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the check-my-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design pipelines such as research, prototyping, or quality audits and generate their skill instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tonyfadel23/skill-inspector/build-my-skill
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 tonyfadel23/skill-inspector --skill build-my-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonyfadel23/skill-inspector

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install check-my-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,731 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 $0.00082 $0.01731
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00865
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00173

Measured 11d ago against content hash af1aa469cc96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-my-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 11d 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/build-my-skill/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

build-my-skill — Skill Tree Builder

Step 0 — Setup

Locate Builder

Find where the skill-inspector package is installed:

BUILDER_DIR=$(find "$(pwd)" ~/.agents/skills -path '*/skill-inspector/skill_inspector/builder.py' -type f 2>/dev/null -exec dirname {} \; | head -1)
if [ -z "$BUILDER_DIR" ]; then
  BUILDER_DIR=$(find "$(pwd)" -path '*/skill_inspector/builder.py' -type f 2>/dev/null -exec dirname {} \; | head -1)
fi
echo "Builder found at: $BUILDER_DIR"

Ensure Dependencies

python3 -c "import yaml" 2>/dev/null || pip3 install --user "PyYAML>=6.0"

Step 1 — Understand the Goal

Ask the user to describe what they want to build. Gather:

  1. Goal: What is the end-to-end outcome?
  2. Inputs: What data, files, or context does it need?
  3. Outputs: What deliverables should it produce?
  4. Constraints: Time, quality thresholds, human review points?
  5. Tools: What external tools or APIs are needed?

If the user is unsure, suggest one of these common patterns:

  • Research Pipeline: fetch → analyze → synthesize → deliver
  • Goal to Prototype: context → research → evaluate → diverge → converge → refine → deliver
  • Quality Audit: scan → check → report → fix → verify
  • Content Generation: brief → draft → review → iterate → publish

Step 2 — Design the Tree

Based on the user's goal, design the skill tree using these node types. Read references/node-types.md for the full reference.

Available Node Types

Type Use When
executor Agent takes action — writes files, generates content
tool External tool invocation — WebSearch, APIs, bash commands
subagent Spawn a dedicated sub-agent with its own context and tools
context_loader Dynamically inject context from files or URLs
signal_gate Gate on computed metrics with pass/fail thresholds
improvement_loop RALPH-style iterate until quality threshold met
diverge Fork into parallel branches for multi-angle analysis
converge Synthesize parallel outputs with a merge strategy
router Conditional branching based on computed values
gate Human approval checkpoint
file_io Read or write specific files

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 207 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A af1aa469cc96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-my-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonyfadel23/skill-inspector (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,731 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 2026-08-31.

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