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Vcr Style Skill Template

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coltonbatts·vlatest·agents·MIT

This skill template streamlines agent creation by providing a structured VCR-style approach for building consistent and effective conversational flows.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add coltonbatts/vcr --skill vcr-style-skill-template --full-depth -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

coltonbatts

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Install target

Live repository

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No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned coltonbatts/vcr at ea2deadf5d.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
ea2deadf5d
Manifest
.skills/vcr-style-skill-template/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 220 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill provides a template for creating AI agent skills, allowing developers to structure and package their functionality in a consistent format. It establishes a baseline architecture and includes pre-built components that can be customized for specific tasks. The goal is to simplify the development process and promote interoperability between different AI agents.

When to use it

  • Developing a new skill for an AI agent, particularly when starting from scratch.
  • Creating a standardized format for existing custom functions or scripts.
  • Sharing reusable components and logic across multiple AI agent projects.
  • Building skills that require a consistent structure and predictable behavior.

Key capabilities

  • Provides a base architecture for skill development.
  • Includes pre-built components to accelerate the development process.
  • Promotes consistency in skill design and implementation.
  • Facilitates sharing and reuse of AI agent skills.

Example prompts

  • "Create a new skill based on this template for summarizing news articles."
  • "Generate a basic structure for an AI agent skill that translates text between languages."
  • "Show me the available components in the vcr-style-skill-template."

Tips & gotchas

This template is intended as a starting point; you'll need to customize it significantly for your specific use case. Familiarity with basic programming concepts and AI agent development principles is recommended.