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.
npx skills add vincentkoc/dotskills --skill example-skillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vincentkoc/dotskillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vincentkoc/dotskills/example-skill)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vincentkoc/dotskills/example-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vincentkoc/dotskills/example-skill/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vincentkoc/dotskills/example-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vincentkoc/dotskills/example-skill.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00015 | $0.00331 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00132 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00066 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00033 |
Grade A, and why
example-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 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.
What it actually says
Example Skill
Purpose
Provide a spec-aligned template for creating consistent, reusable skills.
When to use
- You are adding a new skill to this repository.
- You want a starter structure with required sections.
Workflow
- State the objective in one sentence.
- Collect only required inputs.
- Execute deterministic steps.
- Load deeper context only when needed:
references/REFERENCE.mdassets/output-template.mdagents/openai.yaml
- Return output in a stable format.
- Use
scripts/example-check.shfor a deterministic preflight check.
Inputs
- Task objective
- Constraints
- Output destination
Outputs
- Primary deliverable
- Follow-up checks
Examples
- Build a new skill skeleton with required sections and valid frontmatter.
- Refactor an existing skill to move deep details into
references/. - Add deterministic checks under
scripts/for repeatable verification.
Edge cases
- Missing frontmatter fields: stop and add required fields first.
- Invalid
nameformat: normalize to lowercase-hyphen and match directory name. - Broken resource paths: fix links so all referenced files exist.
Guardrails
- Keep instructions concrete and testable.
- Avoid unnecessary context loading.
- Prefer deterministic commands over manual steps.
- Keep file references one level deep from
SKILL.md.
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 62 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 94708790f041
example-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository vincentkoc/dotskills (109 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 331 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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