Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Codex's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
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# Skill Creator
This skill provides guidance for creating effective skills.
## About Skills
Skills are modular, self-contained folders that extend Codex's capabilities by providing
specialized knowledge, workflows, and tools. Think of them as "onboarding guides" for specific
domains or tasks—they transform Codex from a general-purpose agent into a specialized agent
equipped with procedural knowledge that no model can fully possess.
### What Skills Provide
1. Specialized workflows - Multi-step procedures for specific domains
2. Tool integrations - Instructions for working with specific file formats or APIs
3. Domain expertise - Company-specific knowledge, schemas, business logic
4. Bundled resources - Scripts, references, and assets for complex and repetitive tasks
## Core Principles
### Concise is Key
The context window is a public good. Skills share the context window with everything else Codex needs: system prompt, conversation history, other Skills' metadata, and the actual user request.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260608.9f59278, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wbqe7ai7e2yvzdkc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bruc3van/agent-skills-guard/skill-creator
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/da44c88f6b3845a8fa8c60792ec9a722110a55a9793c279757b48fefb11f819c
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/doc-curl-antipattern/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - documentation mentions curl-pipe-shell as an antipattern to avoid; not intended for…
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/env-var-safe-shell/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - safe environment variable usage without piping; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/js-fetch-mock/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - mock fetch calls in test setup; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/js-fs-example/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - example file system usage in documentation; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/path-safe-realpath/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - uses realpath to validate file paths; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/pdf-safe/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - plain text file with .pdf extension marker; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/socket-localhost/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - socket connection to localhost only; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/subprocess-test-example/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - subprocess usage in test helper; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-negative/svg-icon-safe/SKILL.md · Rule matrix negative fixture - clean SVG icon without scripts; not intended for production deployment.
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-signatures/anthropic-impersonation/SKILL.md · Rule matrix security fixture for anthropic_impersonation used by security rule matrix integration tests; not intended…
bruc3van/agent-skills-guard · src-tauri/tests/fixtures/security/rule_matrix/p0-signatures/apt-install/SKILL.md · Rule matrix security fixture for apt_install used by security rule matrix integration tests; not intended for…
anthropics/skills · skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
bytedance/deer-flow · skills/public/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
hkuds/deeptutor · deeptutor/skills/builtin/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Design and author DeepTutor skills (SKILL.md packages). Use when the user wants to create a new skill, improve an…
cherryhq/cherry-studio · resources/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create, edit, evaluate, and optimize skills, including benchmarking and description tuning for better triggering.
anthropics/claude-plugins-official · plugins/skill-creator/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a…
volcengine/openviking · bot/workspace/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create or update AgentSkills. Use when designing, structuring, or packaging skills with scripts, references, and assets.
garrytan/gbrain · plugin/skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills following the GBrain conformance standard. Generates SKILL.md
with frontmatter, Contract, Phases…
garrytan/gbrain · skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md · Create new skills following the GBrain conformance standard. Generates SKILL.md
with frontmatter, Contract, Phases…