shell-scripter

shell-scripter is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,968 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating, reviewing, converting, and checking shell scripts and command-runner files such as Makefiles and justfiles. Shell scripts are text files that automate commands in environments such as Bash, Zsh, Fish, or POSIX sh.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review shell scripts, convert them between shell dialects, check POSIX patterns, and generate Makefiles or justfiles.
Why use it?
It helps avoid shell-dialect mistakes and common script pitfalls when generating or adapting command-line automation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or review shell scripts, convert them between shell dialects, check POSIX patterns, and generate Makefiles or justfiles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/shell-scripter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add wyattowalsh/agents --skill shell-scripter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,968 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 $0.00048 $0.01968
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00787
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00197

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e476f91e6ad5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shell-scripter 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/shell-scripter/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shell Scripter

Generate, review, convert, and lint shell scripts. Makefile and justfile generation. References ShellCheck rule IDs with explanations but does NOT run ShellCheck.

Scope: Shell scripts (bash, zsh, fish, sh/POSIX), Makefiles, justfiles. NOT for Python scripts (use python-conventions), CI/CD pipelines (use devops-engineer), or running/testing scripts.

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Mode
create <description> Generate a shell script from natural language
review <script or path> Audit for pitfalls, reference ShellCheck rules
convert <script or path> <target> Dialect conversion (bash/zsh/fish)
posix <script or path> POSIX compliance check at pattern level
makefile <tasks> Generate a Makefile from task descriptions
justfile <tasks> Generate a justfile from task descriptions
Natural language about shell scripting Auto-detect mode from intent
Empty Show mode menu with examples

Auto-Detection Heuristic

  1. Path to .sh/.bash/.zsh/.fish file + modification verb (review, check, fix, audit, lint) -> review
  2. Path to .sh file + "to zsh/fish/bash" -> convert
  3. Path to .sh file + "posix" or "portable" -> posix
  4. "makefile" or "make targets" in input -> makefile
  5. "justfile" or "just recipes" in input -> justfile
  6. Describes desired script behavior -> create
  7. Ambiguous -> ask which mode

Mode: Create

Generate a shell script from a natural language description.

Generation Process

  1. Determine target dialect (default: bash)
  2. Run uv run python scripts/dialect-converter.py --list-features <dialect> to confirm available features
  3. Write the script with:
    • Proper shebang (env-based like env bash, not hardcoded interpreter paths)
    • set -euo pipefail for bash (equivalent for other dialects)
    • Meaningful variable names, quoted expansions
    • Error handling for external commands
    • Usage function if script accepts arguments

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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. 1mo ago First seen · 185 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A e476f91e6ad5

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shell-scripter is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,968 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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