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Agent skill

Author Templates

by AgiFlow in AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit

Create or update reusable toolkit boilerplate templates and feature scaffolds.

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Author Templates

skills CLI
$ npx skills add AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit --skill author-templates -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit author-templates --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/aicode-admin/skills/author-templates .claude/skills/author-templates && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
author-templates
GitHub stars
161
Token cost
~322 tokens
SKILL.md length
123 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
9
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Create or update reusable toolkit boilerplate templates and feature scaffolds.

  • Works in 4 steps: Inspect the existing templates/ tree,… → Present a proposed template name,… → Use get-file-design-pattern on files… → …
  • Explicit template-authoring requests
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Simply generating an app

What it does

Author Templates is an agent skill from AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit. Create or update reusable toolkit boilerplate templates and feature scaffolds. Trigger for explicit template-authoring requests. Do not trigger for simply generating an app or feature from an existing template.

Its SKILL.md is about 320 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Project scaffolding. The repository describes itself as: Toolkit for Coding Agents to work reliably with repo of any size. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Explicit template-authoring requests
  • Simply generating an app
  • Feature from an existing template

Example prompts

  • “/author-templates”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Inspect the existing templates/ tree, scaffold.yaml, project metadata and variable conventions in the consumer workspace; do not use…
  2. Present a proposed template name, variables, affected paths and overwrite risk. Ask approval before invoking scaffold's admin tools…
  3. Use get-file-design-pattern on files about to change; edit or generate only after approval. For each changed file invoke…
  4. Validate scaffold.yaml against actual output in a temporary fixture; check that list-boilerplates or list-scaffolding-methods discovers…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d8debed. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Author Templates loads about 322 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 123 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~322

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit at commit d8debed, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© AgiFlow). 123 words, ~322 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/author-templates/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
author-templates
description
Create or update reusable toolkit boilerplate templates and feature scaffolds. Trigger for explicit template-authoring requests. Do not trigger for simply generating an app or feature from an existing template.

Author reusable templates

  1. Inspect the existing templates/ tree, scaffold.yaml, project metadata and variable conventions in the consumer workspace; do not use plugin-cache paths as output.
  2. Present a proposed template name, variables, affected paths and overwrite risk. Ask approval before invoking scaffold's admin tools: generate-boilerplate, generate-feature-scaffold and generate-boilerplate-file (use their discovered schemas). Admin operations can modify reusable templates and dependent projects.
  3. Use get-file-design-pattern on files about to change; edit or generate only after approval. For each changed file invoke review-code-change and inspect returned rules yourself, including rules-only responses.
  4. Validate scaffold.yaml against actual output in a temporary fixture; check that list-boilerplates or list-scaffolding-methods discovers the result. Report changed files, validation and remaining manual decisions. Never automatically synchronize or overwrite client configuration.

© AgiFlow, AGPL-3.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/aicode-admin/skills/author-templates of AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d8debed

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Categories

Questions about Author Templates

What does Author Templates do?

Create or update reusable toolkit boilerplate templates and feature scaffolds. Author Templates is an agent skill from AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit. Create or update reusable toolkit boilerplate templates and feature scaffolds.

When should I use Author Templates?

Author Templates fits situations like: explicit template-authoring requests; simply generating an app; feature from an existing template.

How do I install Author Templates in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit --skill author-templates -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/aicode-admin/skills/author-templates in AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit) into .claude/skills/author-templates in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Author Templates in Codex?

Run `npx skills add AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit --skill author-templates -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/aicode-admin/skills/author-templates in AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit) into .agents/skills/author-templates in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Author Templates in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit --skill author-templates -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/author-templates, .gemini/skills/author-templates, .github/skills/author-templates and .opencode/skills/author-templates in your project.

What does Author Templates need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Author Templates is instructions for the agent only.

Does Author Templates access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Author Templates safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Author Templates use?

Author Templates is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Author Templates use?

About 322 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Author Templates?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Author Templates: Nx Generate (nomcopter/react-mosaic, 4.8k stars), Ponytail (DavidObando/gsharp, 564 stars), Run Nx Generator (nrwl/nx, 29k stars) and Conductor Setup (gemini-cli-extensions/conductor, 3.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Author Templates?

AgiFlow (a GitHub organization) maintains it in AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit, which has 161 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: AgiFlow/aicode-toolkit on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.