skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,845 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating, improving, and auditing skills that guide AI agents. It applies a fixed set of structural patterns and scoring rules to skill instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve a skill, plan changes, audit one or all skills, run skill evaluations, and perform security-focused audits.
Why use it?
It helps make skills clearer, more complete, and easier to check before they are used by agents.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it to create or improve a skill, plan changes, audit one or all skills, run skill evaluations, and perform security-focused audits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/skill-creator
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 wyattowalsh/agents --skill skill-creator
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,845 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 $0.00040 $0.03845
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01538
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00769
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00384

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40f66b6bcde4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-creator 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 18 executable files (scripts/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.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/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

Create, improve, and audit AI agent skills. Every skill follows 14 proven structural patterns.

Scope: Skills only. NOT for creating agents (use agent-conventions), building MCP servers (/mcp-creator), or running existing skills. This repo uses raw SKILL.md format committed directly to skills/.

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Action Example
create <name> / new <name> Develop (new) /skill-creator create my-analyzer
create <name> --from <source> Develop (new, from exemplar) /skill-creator create my-analyzer --from wargame
improve <name> / improve <path> Develop (existing) /skill-creator improve design
plan <name> / plan <path> Plan (existing) /skill-creator plan review
plan --all / plan repo Plan (repo-wide) /skill-creator plan --all
audit <name> Audit /skill-creator audit review
audit <name> --security Security Audit /skill-creator audit review --security
audit --all Audit All /skill-creator audit --all
eval <name> Eval /skill-creator eval review
benchmark <name> Benchmark /skill-creator benchmark review
compare <old> <new> Compare /skill-creator compare review-v1 review-v2
optimize-description <name> Optimize Description /skill-creator optimize-description review
dashboard Dashboard /skill-creator dashboard
package <name> / package --all Package /skill-creator package wargame
example-blocks <name> Example Blocks /skill-creator example-blocks review
Natural language skill idea Auto: Develop (new) "tool that audits Python type safety"
Skill name + modification verb Auto: Develop (existing) "refactor the wargame skill"
Path to SKILL.md Auto: Develop (existing) skills/wargame/SKILL.md
"MCP server" / "agent" / "run" Refuse + redirect —
Empty Gallery /skill-creator

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Files

What ships with it

33 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. 1mo ago First seen · 272 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 40f66b6bcde4

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,845 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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