skill-author

skill-author is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A drafting tool for proposing a new recurring-workflow skill. It creates a SKILL.md outline and may include scripts or reference files for human review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a skill’s purpose, trigger conditions, expected output, and implementation details when no existing skill covers the workflow.
Why use it?
It turns a repeated unmet need into a reviewable proposal while avoiding automatic installation, activation, or editing of skills.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define a skill’s purpose, trigger conditions, expected output, and implementation details when no existing skill covers the workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow/skill-author
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 Zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow --skill skill-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow

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-author

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow/skill-author"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow/skill-author.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,027 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00102 $0.01027
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00103

Measured 8d ago against content hash d1ea29f00789, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-author 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/validate_skill.py, tests/test_validate_skill.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-author/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill author

Turn a description of a recurring need into a draft skill that a human can review and approve. This skill writes proposals; it never installs, activates, or edits skills on its own — a freshly drafted skill is a proposal, not a verified capability.

It is domain-general: nothing here is specific to stormwater or SWMM. The same recipe produces a skill for any modeling or workflow domain.

When to use

  • A recurring problem keeps showing up and no existing skill covers it — the gap itself is the trigger to propose a new one.
  • Someone asks to "create / propose / draft a new skill" for some capability.
  • An agentic system (e.g. a memory or lessons-learned layer) flags a repeated pattern that warrants a new skill rather than a tweak to an existing one.

If an existing skill already covers most of the need, improve that one instead — don't create a near-duplicate (see step 2).

How to draft a skill

  1. Capture intent. Pin down three things before writing: (a) what should this skill let the agent do? (b) when should it trigger — what phrases or contexts? (c) what does it produce (output format)? Pull answers from the conversation or the evidence you were handed; only ask the human for what's genuinely missing.

  2. Check for overlap first. List the existing skills and check whether one already does most of this. If so, propose refining that skill instead of adding a new one — avoiding skill sprawl keeps the library discoverable.

  3. Fill the template. Copy assets/SKILL.template.md and fill it in. The two fields that matter most:

    • name — kebab-case, matches the folder name.
    • description — this is how the agent decides to use the skill, so make it specific and slightly pushy: say what it does AND the concrete situations it should trigger in. A vague description means the skill never fires.

    Keep the body lean and explain the why behind each instruction — a capable model follows reasoning better than rigid ALL-CAPS rules. See references/skill-format.md for the full recipe (anatomy, progressive disclosure, writing patterns).

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A d1ea29f00789

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skill-author is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zhonghao1995/agentic-swmm-workflow (25 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,027 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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