Agent Skill
Chef Assistant skill
chef-assistantNVIDIA/SkillSpectortests/fixtures/malicious_skill/SKILL.md
Use when cooking or planning meals, troubleshooting recipes, learning culinary techniques
always on
17 tokname + description
once used
268 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
11 scripts
repo stars
21kGitHub
Install the Chef Assistant skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector --skill chef-assistant
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector.git /tmp/SkillSpector mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/SkillSpector/tests/fixtures/malicious_skill ~/.claude/skills/chef-assistant
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 17 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 268 tok |
| Only if opened | 1 bundled files (1 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, chef-assistant costs about 80× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 33 skills from NVIDIA/SkillSpector would load 549 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
- Ships scripts the agent can run. Read them before installing.
- The name doesn't match its folder name, as the specification requires.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Chef Assistant
- Purpose
- Workflow
- Common Patterns
- Pattern 1: Recipe Execution
- Pattern 2: Flavor Troubleshooting
- Guardrails
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