write-skill

A meta-tool for creating new coding-agent skills. Given a desired task, it produces a structured skill file with instructions, triggers, tools, and an expected output format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining a skill's purpose, inputs, tools, step-by-step behavior, output format, and validation requirements.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable starting structure for turning a workflow into a reusable slash command or agent skill.

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/viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit/write-skill
Any agent
npx skills add viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit --skill write-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 753 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 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 $0.00045 $0.00753
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash 15309e00f45b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-skill scanned grade A 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 2d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillslowAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

!`ls .claude/skills/ 2>/dev/null`

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.claude/skills/write-skill/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Existing Skills (for pattern reference)

!ls .claude/skills/ 2>/dev/null


Process

Step 1: Gather Requirements

From the user's description, determine:

  1. Name: lowercase-with-hyphens, becomes the /slash-command
  2. Purpose: What does this skill do?
  3. Trigger: When should someone use it?
  4. Input: What arguments does it need?
  5. Output: What should it produce?
  6. Tools needed: Which Claude Code tools does it require?

Step 2: Generate SKILL.md

Create the file following this template:

---
name: skill-name
description: "One sentence: what it does + when to use it. Be specific enough for auto-invocation."
argument-hint: "[argument description]"
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob
---

# Skill Title

## Context Detection
!`relevant shell command for auto-detecting project context`

---

## Instructions

### Step 1: [First action]
Detailed instructions for what Claude should do.

### Step 2: [Second action]
...

### Step N: [Final action]
...

## Output Format
Describe the expected structure of the output.

## Rules
- Rule 1
- Rule 2

Step 3: Validate the Skill

Check the generated SKILL.md against these requirements:

  • Frontmatter has name and description (required)
  • Description is under 150 characters and specific
  • allowed-tools lists only what's needed (principle of least privilege)
  • Shell injection uses !command`` syntax correctly
  • Instructions are numbered steps, not vague paragraphs
  • Output format is defined
  • Rules section exists with boundaries

Step 4: Save and Test

  1. Create directory: .claude/skills/<skill-name>/
  2. Save SKILL.md to that directory
  3. Instruct user to test: open Claude Code, type /<skill-name>

Frontmatter Reference

Field Required Description
name Yes Slash command name (lowercase, hyphens)
description Yes When to use (specific, <150 chars)
argument-hint No Autocomplete hint, e.g. [filename]
allowed-tools No Tools allowed without asking
disable-model-invocation No true = manual only
user-invocable No false = hidden from menu
model No Override model
effort No low, medium, high, max
context No fork for subagent isolation

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 15309e00f45b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository viknesh20-20/claude-code-tool-kit (7 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 753 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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