scaffold

scaffold is a command for coding agents from datathings/marketplace. It costs 17 tokens per session (3,666 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A GreyCat command that creates the starting files for an entity, such as its data model, service, API, and tests. When a frontend exists, it can also create a matching Lit user-interface component.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start CRUD features, time-series collectors, graph traversals, or custom entities in GreyCat projects, with optional frontend tables.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly creating the same project structure by hand and helps keep the model, API, tests, and interface aligned.

Command

Part of the greycat plugin — 1 skill, 8 commands shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/datathings/marketplace/scaffold
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datathings/marketplace

Or install greycat, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 8 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,666 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.03666
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01833
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00733
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00367

Measured 5d ago against content hash a3b37c764564, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold 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 5d 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.

plugins/greycat/commands/scaffold.md · 372 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 372 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GreyCat Scaffold Generator

Purpose: Generate model + service + API + tests for an entity — plus a matching Lit UI component when frontend/ exists.

Generated files:

  • src/<feature>/<feature>.gcl — type + indices + service
  • src/<feature>/<feature>_api.gcl@expose + @volatile views
  • test/<feature>_test.gcl — tests
  • frontend/components/<feature>-table.ts — Lit component (only if frontend/ exists)

Templates: CRUD | Time-series collector | Graph traversal | Custom

Frontend stack (for the UI component): VitePlus (vp) + Lit (shadow DOM) + TypeScript + Web Awesome (@awesome.me/webawesome, or an equivalent web-component UI kit) + @greycat/web/sdk + lucide-static (self-hosted inline SVG), pnpm. Pin exact latest versions; keep content accessible for LLM-friendly SEO. Lighthouse tuning is optional.

One entity = sequential (model → api → test → frontend; each step depends on the prior file) — this is the default flow. To scaffold several entities at once, fan out one subagent (Task) per entity — they are independent.


Step 1: Ask template (AskUserQuestion)

  • CRUD Service (Recommended) — create/read/update/delete + indices
  • Time-series Collector — nodeTime index for temporal data
  • Graph Traversal — relationships + traversal queries
  • Custom (guided)

Step 2: Detect project structure

[ ! -f "project.gcl" ] && { echo "ERROR: not a GreyCat project root"; exit 1; }
mkdir -p src test

Step 3: Gather entity details (AskUserQuestion)

  • Entity name (PascalCase: Device, User, Order)
  • Fields (one per line: name: String, email: String, age: int?, created_at: time)
  • Indices (multiSelect):
    • By ID: nodeIndex<int, node<T>>
    • By unique field: nodeIndex<String, node<T>>
    • List: nodeList<node<T>>
    • Time-series: nodeTime<T> (primitive or node)
    • Geo: nodeGeo<node<T>>

Step 4: Detect project style

find src -name "*.gcl" | head -3   # check existing patterns

Match sibling .gcl files (indentation, error-handling style); run greycat fmt — the formatter owns width/layout.

Read the full file on GitHub · 372 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. 5d ago First seen · 372 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A a3b37c764564

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scaffold is a command published in the GitHub repository datathings/marketplace (11 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,666 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.