skill-evals

skill-evals is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TypeFox/agent-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (8,813 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A testing workflow for measuring whether an agent skill improves its results. It compares the skill with a baseline, meaning the same task without that skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design test cases, run evaluations, grade results against requirements, combine benchmark data, and analyze changes between versions.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork about a skill's usefulness with repeatable tests, scores, and comparisons.

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/typefox/agent-skills/skill-evals
Any agent
npx skills add TypeFox/agent-skills --skill skill-evals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TypeFox/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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-evals

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/typefox/agent-skills/skill-evals.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/typefox/agent-skills/skill-evals)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/typefox/agent-skills/skill-evals"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/typefox/agent-skills/skill-evals.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,813 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00110 $0.08813
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.04407
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01763
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00881

Measured 4d ago against content hash de10a8900ddf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skill-evals scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- **Out-of-process headless sessions** (Claude Code: `claude -p`; Codex: `codex exec`): each run is its own fresh process, which assembles project memory from disk at its own start — so with the root files off disk nothi
skills/skill-evals/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evaluating a skill with the eval loop

A skill is a bet that some instructions make an agent's output better. The loop is how you collect on the bet: run real prompts with the skill and against a baseline without it (or against the previous version), grade both against the same bar, and read the delta — what the skill costs in time and tokens versus what it buys in pass rate. Repeat until the delta stops moving.

This skill is the spine of that loop — the order of operations, the two gates that guard it, and the two points where only the user can supply what you need. The mechanics — exact file schemas, the grader and analyzer subagents, the aggregation script — live in skill-creator, which this skill drives rather than restates. When you need a schema or a command, follow the pointer into skill-creator.

One deliberate deviation from skill-creator. skill-creator surfaces results through an HTML eval viewer plus a generated benchmark.md and review.md. skill-evals does not: it runs skill-creator's scripts only to process and aggregate the JSON (grading.json, benchmark.json, timing.json), then consolidates everything human-facing into a single REPORT.md (Activity 7). Do not launch the eval viewer or rely on the scripts' Markdown/HTML output — REPORT.md is the one artifact the user reviews.

Preflight — clear both gates before any activity

Gate 1: skill-creator must be available

Locate the installed skill-creator skill and read its SKILL.md. Note its directory as SKILL_CREATOR; every mechanic below is addressed relative to it — SKILL_CREATOR/references/schemas.md, SKILL_CREATOR/scripts/, SKILL_CREATOR/agents/.

If skill-creator is not installed, stop here. skill-evals is an orchestration layer and cannot run without it. Tell the user to install it (it lives in the anthropics/skills repository) and re-run. Done when SKILL_CREATOR resolves to a readable directory, or you have stopped with that instruction.

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 4d ago First seen · 201 lines · 110 tokens per session scan B de10a8900ddf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-evals is a skill published in the GitHub repository TypeFox/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 8,813 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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