skill-creator

skill-creator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zhinjs/zhin. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating or improving an agent skill: a SKILL.md file that gives an AI a repeatable workflow for a specific task. It covers the skill’s name, search keywords, instructions, failure handling, and examples where needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a new skill, write or refine SKILL.md files, define trigger words, document tool usage, and check that the skill is packaged correctly.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague instruction into a skill that an agent can find and follow consistently. It also checks that the skill stays focused and includes useful fallback steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhinjs/zhin/skill-creator
Any agent
npx skills add zhinjs/zhin --skill skill-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhinjs/zhin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for skill-creator

README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,220 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00061 $0.01220
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00610
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00122

Measured 5d ago against content hash f862274a849e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 5d 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.

packages/toolkit/create-zhin/template/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Creator

为 Zhin Agent 编写或改进 skills/<name>/SKILL.md:一条可重复、可搜索、可执行的工作流,而不是长篇手册。

何时使用

  • 用户要「给 Agent 加一个技能 / 写 SKILL.md / 补 keywords」
  • 插件已暴露工具,需要说明何时激活、按什么步骤用
  • 不要用来实现插件业务逻辑(用 plugin-develop

工作流

第 1 步:界定单任务边界

  1. 输入:用户描述的可重复任务(一次对话应能完成)
  2. 输出:技能名(kebab-case)、一句话触发场景
  3. 若任务跨「开发 + 发布 + 审计」→ 拆成多个 skill,不要一个 SKILL 包全部

第 2 步:写 frontmatter

---
name: my-skill          # 与目录名一致,kebab-case
description: "一句话:做什么 + 何时用 + 英文/中文触发词"
keywords:
  - 中文触发词
  - english trigger
tags:
  - zhin
  - plugin
---
  • description 必须包含:能力触发场景典型用户说法
  • 禁止在 description 末尾加「灵活应用」「视情况而定」等空话

第 3 步:写正文(最小结构)

  1. 何时使用 / 不适用(各 3–5 条以内)
  2. 编号工作流(每步写清输入 → 动作 → 输出)
  3. 失败与兜底(if 失败 → 则…,至少 2 条)
  4. 不要做什么(反例 3–5 条)
  5. 示例仅在有歧义时添加(命令原文、路径格式)

第 4 步:落盘与发现链

  • 路径:skills/<name>/SKILL.md(插件内则为 plugins/<pkg>/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
  • 确认 package.jsonfiles 包含 skills
  • Agent 发现顺序见 docs/advanced/tools-skills.md

第 5 步:自检

  • 名称与目录一致
  • keywords/tags 覆盖用户口语
  • 步骤可逐步执行,无「酌情处理」堆砌
  • 有失败分支与反例清单
  • description ≤1024 字符且无空话尾巴

第 6 步:输出最小可用 skill(模板)

落盘时默认生成如下结构(按任务替换 ...):

---
name: my-skill
description: "做 X;在用户说 Y 或 Z 时使用。Triggers: ..."
keywords: [中文触发, english-trigger]
tags: [zhin, plugin]
---

# My Skill

## 何时使用
- ...

## 工作流
### 第 1 步:...
- 输入:...
- 输出:...

## 失败与兜底
| 触发条件 | 一线处理 | 仍失败 |
| ... | ... | ... |

## 🔴 CHECKPOINT · ...
...

## 不要做什么
- ...

插件内路径:plugins/<pkg>/skills/<name>/SKILL.md;用户项目:skills/<name>/SKILL.md

失败与兜底

触发条件 一线处理 仍失败
Agent 从不激活该 skill 补 description 与 keywords;检查是否与别的 skill 重复 缩短 skill,只保留一个主任务
skill 与工具描述重复 skill 写流程与约束;工具写参数与副作用 删除冗余 skill,只留 keywords 在 tool 上
正文过长模型不读 删背景知识,链到 references/ 或官方文档 URL 拆成两个 skill

🔴 CHECKPOINT · 发布前

向用户确认:技能名、触发词、是否与其他 skill 重复,再写入仓库。

不要做什么

  • 不要把整个框架文档贴进 SKILL.md
  • 不要写仅适用于某一 IDE 的安装路径(保持 runtime-neutral)
  • 不要用 skill 替代 README(安装配置留给 README)
  • 不要一个 skill 覆盖「开发+测试+发布」全流程
  • 不要在正文堆大量无编号段落

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f862274a849e

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skill-creator is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhinjs/zhin (135 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,220 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 2026-08-30.

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