Agent skill

Ethskills

by austintgriffith in austintgriffith/ethskills

A skill your agent uses when a request involves Ethereum, the EVM, or blockchain systems.

No licenceAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Ethskills

skills CLI
$ npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill ethskills -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install austintgriffith/ethskills ethskills --agent claude-code

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

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

Facts

Skill name
ethskills
GitHub stars
294
Token cost
~3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,405 words
Files
20
Skills in repo
22
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when a request involves Ethereum, the EVM, or blockchain systems.

  • A request involves Ethereum
  • SKILL.md covers Start Here, Skills and What to Fetch by Task
  • Runs JavaScript scripts from its folder; calls yarn; reaches ethskills.com
  • Blockchain systems

What it does

Ethskills is an agent skill from austintgriffith/ethskills. Use when a request involves Ethereum, the EVM, or blockchain systems. Applies to building, auditing, deploying, or interacting with smart contracts, dApps, wallets, or DeFi protocols. Covers Solidity development, contract addresses, token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-4626, etc.), Layer 2 networks (Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, Polygon), and integrations with DeFi protocols such as Uniswap, Aave, and Curve. Includes topics such as gas costs, contract decimals, oracle safety, reentrancy, MEV, bridging…

Its SKILL.md is about 3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 24 other files (for example `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`, `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and `.github/workflows/update-gas.yml`).

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Smart contracts and Crypto and DeFi analysis. It works with Ethereum, Solidity, Arbitrum and Uniswap. The repository describes itself as: The missing knowledge between AI agents and production Ethereum.

When your agent uses it

  • A request involves Ethereum
  • Blockchain systems

Example prompts

  • “/ethskills”

Requirements

  • Node.js

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 06ea4ef. 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

    Ships script files (JavaScript, from the files we listed), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • yarn

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

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • ethskills.com

    Also links to:

    • forkcast.org

    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

Ethskills loads about 3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 164 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,405 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~164
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,405 words (~3,004 tokens).

“You are probably wrong about Ethereum. Gas prices, token decimals, L2 costs, what's deployed, what's deprecated — your training data is stale. This file tells you what you're wrong about and where to get the corrections.”

— opening of SKILL.md by austintgriffith
name
ethskills

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 19 other files in the repository root of austintgriffith/ethskills.

  • SKILL.md
  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json
  • .github/workflows/update-gas.yml
  • .gitignore
  • AGENTS.md
  • CLAUDE.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • README.md
  • api/feedback.js
  • apple-touch-icon.png
  • audits/2026-03-03-full-site-review.md
  • favicon-32x32.png
  • favicon.ico
  • favicon.svg
  • inbox.html
  • … and 4 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 06ea4ef

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Aomi Transactjeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace2.8k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
AlchemyBankrBot/skills1.2k—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Ethskills

What does Ethskills do?

A skill your agent uses when a request involves Ethereum, the EVM, or blockchain systems. Ethskills is an agent skill from austintgriffith/ethskills. Use when a request involves Ethereum, the EVM, or blockchain systems.

When should I use Ethskills?

Ethskills fits situations like: A request involves Ethereum; blockchain systems.

How do I install Ethskills in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill ethskills -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (the austintgriffith/ethskills repository) into .claude/skills/ethskills in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ethskills in Codex?

Run `npx skills add austintgriffith/ethskills --skill ethskills -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (the austintgriffith/ethskills repository) into .agents/skills/ethskills in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ethskills 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 austintgriffith/ethskills --skill ethskills -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ethskills, .gemini/skills/ethskills, .github/skills/ethskills and .opencode/skills/ethskills in your project.

What does Ethskills need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Ethskills needs JavaScript for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (yarn). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Ethskills access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: ethskills.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: forkcast.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ethskills 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 Ethskills use?

No licence was found for Ethskills or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Ethskills use?

About 3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k 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 Ethskills?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ethskills: Aomi Transact (majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, 666 stars), Trading Evm (alsk1992/CloddsBot, 2.9k stars), Use Usdc (circlefin/skills, 155 stars) and Aomi Transact (jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace, 2.8k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ethskills?

austintgriffith (a GitHub user) maintains it in austintgriffith/ethskills, which has 294 GitHub stars. The repository holds 22 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 20, 2026.

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