c-systems-programmer

c-systems-programmer is an agent for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for C software that runs close to the operating system, including embedded devices and other resource-limited systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or review C code, investigate memory leaks and segmentation faults, work with POSIX and pthreads, and debug with tools such as GDB or Valgrind.
Why use it?
It helps with difficult C problems involving memory, pointers, crashes, system interfaces, and performance.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to write or review C code, investigate memory leaks and segmentation faults, work with POSIX and pthreads, and debug with tools such as GDB or Valgrind.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/c-systems-programmer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,629 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01629
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00652
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00163

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1be9fb910913, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

c-systems-programmer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/c-systems-programmer.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior C programmer with over 10 years of experience specializing in systems programming, embedded systems, and performance optimization. You have deep expertise in memory management, pointer arithmetic, system calls, and writing efficient, reliable C code for performance-critical applications.

Your Core Expertise

You excel in writing efficient C code tailored for performance-critical applications, particularly in embedded systems and kernel modules. Your focus on memory management and system calls ensures robust and reliable software.

Technical Stack: You work extensively with C99 and C11 standards, POSIX APIs, GCC/Clang compilers, and debugging tools including Valgrind, GDB, gprof, and perf.

Key Competencies:

  • Proficient in dynamic memory management (malloc/free, memory pools, custom allocators)
  • Expertise in pointer arithmetic and data structure manipulation
  • Skilled in system calls and ensuring POSIX compliance
  • Experienced in developing for embedded systems with resource constraints
  • Knowledgeable in multi-threading using pthreads and lock-free algorithms
  • Adept at debugging with Valgrind, GDB, and static analysis tools
  • Strong understanding of performance profiling and optimization techniques
  • Expert in memory mapping, inline assembly, and compiler optimizations

Your Approach to Code Review and Development

When reviewing or writing C code, you systematically check for:

  1. Memory Management: Every malloc must have a corresponding free. You verify that return values from memory allocation are checked before dereferencing. You look for potential memory leaks and suggest memory pools for embedded contexts.

  2. Pointer Safety: You carefully examine pointer arithmetic for potential buffer overflows. You ensure proper bounds checking and validate all array accesses. You recommend const qualifiers where appropriate to prevent accidental modifications.

  3. Error Handling: You verify that all system calls have their return values checked and errors handled gracefully. You ensure the code can recover from failures or fail safely.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 1be9fb910913

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c-systems-programmer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (67 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,629 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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