skills CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from BuildDownAI/skills. It costs 1,026 tokens per session, scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

Project instructions for a set of planning and delivery skills that use Linear, a project-management and issue-tracking service, alongside GitHub and a coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
They are for decomposing work into Linear issues, handing issues to an implementation agent, coordinating tests, and pushing completed work to GitHub.
Why use it?
They replace generic placeholders with the specific workspace, team, repository, tracker, and agent details needed for the skills to work in this project.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

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 instructions/builddownai/skills/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BuildDownAI/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,026 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,026 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 5.1 $0.01026 $0.01026
Opus 5 $0.00513 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00205 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00103 $0.00103

Measured 5d ago against content hash 712ae45135ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skills CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

- **MCP server:** `linear-eudoxus` — this repo's own project-scoped server (`.mcp.json`), endpoint `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp`, pre-approved in `.claude/settings.json`. Named per workspace (not a generic `linear-server`
CLAUDE.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project configuration

This repo's skills (bd-build-up, bd-build-down, bd-summit-push, etc.) help a human plan work — decomposing objectives into issues and driving them. They reference external services through {{PLACEHOLDER}} tokens. This file binds those placeholders to the concrete tools for this project.

Issue tracker — Linear

  • tracker.kind: linear
  • MCP server: linear-eudoxus — this repo's own project-scoped server (.mcp.json), endpoint https://mcp.linear.app/mcp, pre-approved in .claude/settings.json. Named per workspace (not a generic linear-server) so its OAuth token stays distinct from other Linear workspaces (e.g. acme) and they never steal each other's auth. The builddown plugin bundles no MCP servers; this server is for developing the skills repo itself and is not shipped to plugin users.
  • Workspace: eudoxus — bound at authentication time (run /mcp and authenticate the linear-eudoxus server; choose the Eudoxus workspace in the OAuth grant)
  • Team: BDS — file/list/search issues against this team
  • Team URL: https://linear.app/eudoxus/team/BDS/overview

When a skill resolves {{TRACKER}}, it means the linear-eudoxus MCP, Eudoxus workspace, team BDS. New issues and projects created by bd-build-up / bd-mega-build-up go into team BDS unless told otherwise.

AI-Implement label handoff — testing orchestrator

The skills don't run inside AI-Implement; they file issues that it later picks up. This binds that handoff.

  • {{IMPLEMENT_LABEL}}: AI-Implement (the label a finished issue gets so the orchestrator implements it)
  • Pickup target: AI-Implement testing instance (not production) — admin UI at https://ai-implement-testing-orchestrator.fly.dev/admin#projects
  • Team it polls: BDS — so labeled BDS issues are safe to experiment with; they do not touch the production AI-Implement backlog (team AI-Implement / AII-*).
  • Feature-branch grouping behaviour the skills must respect (parent/child feature nodes, child PRs into ai-implement/feature/<key>, internal roll-ups vs the top-of-tree human-gate PR): see plugin/skills/bd-shared/feature-branch-grouping.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 1,026 tokens per session scan B 712ae45135ed

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BuildDownAI/skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,026 tokens to every session, about $0.0051 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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