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Example Command (Skill Format) — measured AI agent skill | DecimalAI

anthropics/example-command

SkillScore91Maintained

An example user-invoked skill that demonstrates frontmatter options and the skills/<name>/SKILL.md layout

by anthropics

Links this skill to your agents and keeps it current with the author’s updates.

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AI Engineer pack

decimalai skills pull anthropics-example-command

Get this skill — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL https://app.decimal.ai/s/anthropics-example-command/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/anthropics-example-command/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/anthropics-example-command.json ↗

In productionGlobal

how this skill behaves on real traffic · last 30 days

No production data for this skill yet — usage numbers appear here once agents start running it.

Anonymized aggregate across every org using this skill — proof from real production use, not a demo.

Does this skill help? · Benchmark: with vs. withoutsign in to run this on your agents

22 test cases from the publisher’s eval.yaml · each run twice on gemini-3.6-flash — with the skill injected, then without · last run 3d ago

Yes — +18% lift-43% tokens0% turns91% of whole cases pass with skill (20/22)

Test case	Without → With	Effect	Δ tokens	Δ turns
case-04	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-70%	0%
case-06	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-37%	0%
case-08	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-83%	0%
case-13	✗→✓	▲ Improved	-66%	0%
case-03	✓→✓	＝ Same ✓	-43%	0%

Showing 5 of 22 cases

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

live_secretremote_code_executionreverse_shelldata_exfiltrationssrf_metadataagent_snoopinganti_refusaldestructive_commandsobfuscated_unicodeunicode_homoglyphopaque_blobsuspicious_urltool_overreachtrigger_abuseprompt_injection_phrasing

IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

anthropics / claude-plugins-official

plugins/example-plugin/skills/example-command/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License Apache-2.0Imported 8/3/2026Version v1

Skill contents

SKILL.md

Example Command (Skill Format)

This demonstrates the skills/<name>/SKILL.md layout for user-invoked slash commands. It is functionally identical to the legacy commands/example-command.md format — both are loaded the same way; only the file layout differs.

Arguments

The user invoked this with: $ARGUMENTS

Instructions

When this skill is invoked:

Parse the arguments provided by the user
Perform the requested action using allowed tools
Report results back to the user

Frontmatter Options Reference

Skills in this layout support these frontmatter fields:

name: Skill identifier (matches directory name)
description: Short description shown in /help
argument-hint: Hints for command arguments shown to user
allowed-tools: Pre-approved tools for this skill (reduces permission prompts)
model: Override the model (e.g., "haiku", "sonnet", "opus")

Example Usage

/example-command my-argument
/example-command arg1 arg2

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