using-agent-skills

using-agent-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS. It costs 16 tokens per session (413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for discovering and combining skills from an AI-agent framework. It maps work to commands such as planning, building, testing, reviewing, and deploying.

In plain words
What is it for?
Selecting the main skill for a task, checking project instructions, adding relevant supporting skills, and following verification steps.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right process and supporting guidance instead of approaching every task without a defined workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Selecting the main skill for a task, checking project instructions, adding relevant supporting skills, and following verification steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/ai-agent-skills/using-agent-skills
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 vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS --skill using-agent-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 413 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 $0.00016 $0.00413
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00041

Measured 10d ago against content hash 52ae602c3548, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-agent-skills 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 10d 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/using-agent-skills/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Overview

This meta-skill teaches you how to use the AI Agent Skills framework. Load it first in any new session.

When to Use

Load this skill at the start of every session when working in a project that has this framework installed.

Process

Step 1: Identify your task type

Map what you're about to do to one of the 8 core commands:

  • Defining/scoping → /spec
  • Planning/decomposing → /plan
  • Implementing → /build
  • Testing/verifying → /test
  • Reviewing code → /review
  • Simplifying code → /simplify
  • Deploying → /ship
  • Responding to incidents → /incident

Step 2: Load the primary skill

Read the skill file for your task: skills/<name>/SKILL.md

Step 3: Identify supporting skills

Check AGENTS.md for the skill composition table. Load supporting skills if they apply.

Step 4: Check for a relevant pack

If working in a specific domain (AI/ML, data, frontend), load the matching pack from packs/.

Step 5: Execute with verification gates

Follow each step in the skill. Do not skip steps. At each checkpoint, produce evidence.

Anti-Rationalizations

"The task is simple enough that I don't need a skill" Simple tasks still benefit from structured thinking. The overhead of loading a skill is seconds; the cost of a missed step can be days.

"I already know how to do this" Skills encode accumulated engineering wisdom beyond what any individual knows. They also prevent bad days from becoming bad commits.

Verification Requirements

  • Identified the correct primary skill for the current task
  • Loaded all relevant supporting skills
  • Have clear verification requirements before starting work
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. 10d ago First seen · 54 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 52ae602c3548

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-agent-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/AI-AGENT-SKILLS (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 413 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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