board-pattern

A command for managing canonical patterns, which are named records describing recurring behavior or problems. It can list patterns or preview and apply changes to their identities and assignments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create patterns, add aliases, assign patterns to entries, correct assignments, or list the existing pattern records.
Why use it?
It prevents duplicate, unknown, retired, or unsafe pattern references from spreading across board entries.

Command

Part of the engineering-board plugin — 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server, 1 plugin 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/ghostlygawd/engineering-board/board-pattern
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GhostlyGawd/engineering-board

Or install engineering-board, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 21 commands, 8 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server, 1 plugin.

Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 376 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 $0.00023 $0.00376
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 6c46ff8562c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

board-pattern 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 yesterday.

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.

commands/board-pattern.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

/board-pattern: manage canonical pattern identity

Resolve the named project through engineering-board/BOARD-ROUTER.md, then docs/boards/BOARD-ROUTER.md. Use the resolved board path as <board-dir>.

Run the shared pattern command:

bash "$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/hooks/scripts/board-intake.sh" \
  --board-dir "<board-dir>" --project "<project-name>" \
  pattern --action "<action>" [options]

Supported options are:

  • create: --label, optional repeated --alias, --definition, --inclusion-evidence, and --exclusions
  • alias: --pattern-id, --alias, and --reason
  • assign: --entry-id, --pattern-id, and --reason
  • correct: --entry-id, --replace, --with, and --reason
  • list: no additional option

Mutating actions return a no-write, content-bound preview. Show the proposed record or entry change and its plan_id.

Apply only when $ARGUMENTS includes --apply <plan-id>. Repeat the same command and add:

--apply "<plan-id>"

The command refuses unknown, retired, unsafe, duplicate, or stale identities. On success, report the changed Markdown paths and GRAPH.yml rebuild. Do not edit pattern_ids without the shared command because corrections require durable history.

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. yesterday First seen · 43 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 6c46ff8562c3

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board-pattern is a command published in the GitHub repository GhostlyGawd/engineering-board (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 376 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 2026-08-31.