Echo - Message Repeater

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This skill echoes a message back with a timestamp. Helpful for testing skill functionality and learning how skills work. Use it when you need to verify that skills are operating correctly.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
TestingBeginner
1506/2/2026
Claude Code
#echo#testing#learning#demonstration

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Our review

A simple skill that echoes back a user-provided message, useful for testing skill functionality.

Strengths

  • Very simple to understand and use, ideal for learning
  • Quickly verifies that the skill infrastructure is working
  • Includes timestamp for temporal debugging

Limitations

  • Only repeats the message, no processing or modification
  • Does not handle long messages or special input (e.g., JSON)
When to use it

Use this skill to test if the skill system is properly configured or to learn basic skill mechanics.

When not to use it

Do not use it for tasks that require advanced text processing or complex interaction.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill only runs a local Python echo script with provided arguments; no network access, file deletion, or obfuscation.

No concerns found

Examples

Simple echo
Echo 'Hello, World!'
Multi-word message
Repeat this message: 'Testing the echo skill'
Test skill working
Test if the echo skill is working by echoing 'Skill test successful'

name: echo description: | A simple echo skill for testing and learning. Use this skill when asked to:

  • Echo or repeat a message
  • Test that skills are working correctly
  • Demonstrate basic skill functionality license: MIT compatibility: python3 allowed-tools: Bash(python3:*) Read

Echo Skill

A minimal skill that echoes messages back. Perfect for learning how Conjure works.

Usage

To echo a message, run the echo script:

python3 scripts/echo.py "Your message here"

The script will print the message back with a timestamp.

Examples

# Simple echo
python3 scripts/echo.py "Hello, World!"
# Output: [2024-01-15 10:30:00] Echo: Hello, World!

# Multi-word message
python3 scripts/echo.py "This is a test message"
# Output: [2024-01-15 10:30:01] Echo: This is a test message

How It Works

  1. The script receives a message as a command-line argument
  2. It formats the message with a timestamp
  3. It prints the formatted message to stdout

This simple flow demonstrates the core pattern of all Conjure skills:

  • Claude reads the SKILL.md to understand capabilities
  • Claude uses bash_tool to execute scripts
  • Results are returned to continue the conversation
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