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 wyattowalsh/agents --skill skill-lifecycle-managergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agentsWrote 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/wyattowalsh/agents/skill-lifecycle-manager)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/wyattowalsh/agents/skill-lifecycle-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wyattowalsh/agents/skill-lifecycle-manager/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/wyattowalsh/agents/skill-lifecycle-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/wyattowalsh/agents/skill-lifecycle-manager.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00037 | $0.00447 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00179 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00089 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00045 |
Grade A, and why
skill-lifecycle-manager 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
Skill Lifecycle Manager
Classify repository skills by lifecycle stage and readiness gates.
Scope: Read-only lifecycle reporting. Does not edit skills, run installs, or mutate catalog indexes.
Dispatch
| $ARGUMENTS | Action |
|---|---|
<name> |
Lifecycle report for one skill |
repo / --all |
Summary for every skills/*/ directory |
--format json |
Machine-readable report |
| Empty | Show stage definitions and example commands |
Lifecycle Stages
| Stage | Signals |
|---|---|
draft |
TODO description, missing evals, or failing scripts/check.py contract |
internal |
metadata.internal: true |
active |
Valid frontmatter, eval manifest, and portable validator present |
deprecated |
Body or metadata marks deprecation (maintainer-authored) |
Workflow
uv run python skills/skill-lifecycle-manager/scripts/lifecycle_report.py <name>
uv run python skills/skill-lifecycle-manager/scripts/lifecycle_report.py --all --format json
Pair lifecycle output with /skill-creator audit before promotion.
Validation Contract
uv run python skills/skill-lifecycle-manager/scripts/check.py
Critical Rules
- Never auto-promote a skill based on lifecycle heuristics alone.
- Treat missing evals as a draft signal, not a hard block for internal skills.
- Do not mutate
metadata.internalor catalog authoring rows from this skill. - Run the repo validation command before declaring a skill active-ready.
- Route executable fixes to skill-creator or the maintainer lead.
What ships with it
4 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 · 60 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A b579d67c780e
skill-lifecycle-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 447 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 2026-09-03.
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