skilltree: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skilltree CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from imarios/skilltree. It costs 2,407 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A dependency manager for AI-agent skills, which are instruction packages for coding agents, plus agents and slash commands. It uses Git repositories as its package catalogue and records exact versions in lockfiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, update, pin, and manage skill packages, agents, and Claude Code commands from Git repositories.
Why use it?
It helps install skills with their required dependencies and keep installations repeatable across machines or projects. It also handles dependencies that depend on other dependencies.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is imarios/skilltree's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skilltree itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything skilltree configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to imarios/skilltree. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/imarios/skilltree/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imarios/skilltree

Made for: Claude Code.

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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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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 $0.02407 $0.02407
Opus 5.5 $0.00963 $0.00963
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00481 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00241 $0.00241

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4c976ece73f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skilltree CLAUDE.md 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.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skilltree - Dependency Manager for AI Agent Skills

What is this?

Dependency-aware package manager for AI agent skills (SKILL.md), agents, and Claude Code slash commands. Uses git repos as the registry, resolves transitive dependencies, supports semver version pinning via git tags, and produces lockfiles for reproducible installs.

Docs

docs/
├── specs/
│   ├── spec.md              # Core spec: concepts, commands, phases
│   ├── reference.md         # Technical: file formats, algorithm, error messages
│   ├── decisions.md         # Design decisions (resolved + deferred), open questions
│   └── background.md        # Why skilltree, alternatives comparison
├── planning/                # Phase planning docs (hydrogen, helium, etc.)
└── PROJECTS.md              # Project tracking

Tech Stack

  • Language: TypeScript
  • Runtime: Bun (development + bun build --compile for single binary)
  • Also works with: Node.js (npx skilltree)
  • Key deps: simple-git, semver, yaml, commander

Project Structure

skilltree/
├── src/
│   ├── cli.ts              # CLI entry point (commander)
│   ├── commands/            # One file per command
│   ├── core/
│   │   ├── manifest.ts      # skilltree.yml parsing/writing
│   │   ├── lockfile.ts      # skilltree.lock parsing/writing
│   │   ├── resolver.ts      # Version resolution (semver constraints)
│   │   ├── graph.ts         # Dependency graph + topological sort
│   │   ├── git.ts           # Git operations (clone, fetch, tags)
│   │   ├── installer.ts     # File copy, symlinks, permissions
│   │   ├── scanner.ts       # Dependency detection (regex)
│   │   ├── llm.ts           # Optional LLM dependency detection
│   │   └── frontmatter.ts   # SKILL.md frontmatter parsing
│   └── types.ts
├── tests/
├── docs/
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── CLAUDE.md

Development

bun install
pre-commit install
pre-commit install --hook-type post-merge  # auto-rebuilds local binary after version bumps
bun test
bun run dev -- install
bun build --compile src/cli.ts --outfile dist/skilltree

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 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 Changed · +17 lines · +240 tokens per session 4c976ece73f3
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines · +132 tokens per session a203cb125666
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +16 lines · +198 tokens per session 933b6083a5b7
  4. 2mo ago First seen · 144 lines · 1,837 tokens per session scan A d1aa87a6d03d

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skilltree CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository imarios/skilltree (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,407 tokens to every session, about $0.0096 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 2026-08-31.

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