claude-agents

claude-agents is a skill for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,573 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating custom Claude Code agents, which are specialized assistants with defined tools, behavior, and task focus.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create subagents for focused multi-step tasks, restrict their tool access, and preload the guidance they need.
Why use it?
It helps you choose the agent's permissions, tools, model, skills, and turn limits so its scope is clear and controlled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claude-code plugin — 12 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to create subagents for focused multi-step tasks, restrict their tool access, and preload the guidance they need.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinnie357/claude-skills/claude-agents
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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill claude-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 commands.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,573 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 179
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 186
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.02573
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01287
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00257

Measured 9d ago against content hash cf0d7173272e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-agents 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 9d 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.

plugins/tools/claude-code/skills/claude-agents/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Agents

Guide for creating custom agents that provide specialized behaviors and tool access for specific tasks.

When spawning as part of a team

Invoke /core:agent-loop for the 4-phase / 6-tier execution model. Invoke /claude-code:claude-teams if the agent joins a multi-agent team. Invoke /core:anti-fabrication always — every claim about a tool, file, or test result requires tool execution.

Glob patterns like /core:* do not expand in Agent prompts. List skill names explicitly.

What Are Agents?

Agents are specialized Claude instances with:

  • Specific tool access: Limited or specialized tool sets
  • Defined behaviors: Pre-configured instructions and constraints
  • Task focus: Optimized for particular workflows
  • Autonomous operation: Can execute multi-step tasks independently

Agents vs Skills

Feature Agents Skills
Activation Explicitly launched via Agent tool Auto-activated based on context
Tool Access Configurable, can be restricted Inherit from parent context
State Independent, isolated Share parent context
Use Case Complex multi-step tasks Knowledge and guidelines
Persistence Single execution Always available when loaded

Agent File Structure

Location

Agents are defined in markdown files located in:

  • Plugin: <plugin-root>/agents/
  • User-level: .claude/agents/

File Naming

  • Use kebab-case: code-reviewer.md
  • File name becomes the agent type
  • Be descriptive about the agent's purpose

Basic Agent Format

---
name: code-reviewer
description: Reviews code for quality and best practices
tools: Read, Grep, Glob
model: sonnet
---

You are a code reviewer. Analyze code for quality, security, and best practices.

## Workflow

1. **Find files**: Glob to locate target files
2. **Read code**: Examine contents
3. **Check patterns**: Grep for anti-patterns
4. **Report**: Provide prioritized feedback

## Guidelines

- **Specific**: Reference file:line locations
- **Actionable**: Suggest concrete fixes
- **Prioritized**: Critical issues first

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 9d ago First seen · 192 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A cf0d7173272e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,573 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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