litestar-skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

litestar-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from litestar-org/litestar-skills. It costs 2,076 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository guidance for Litestar skills, a collection of reusable instructions and tools for developing Litestar applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Authoring or maintaining Litestar skills, plugins, commands, subagents, and MCP servers.
Why use it?
It keeps contributions concise, consistent, framework-focused, and aligned with the project’s preferred commands and libraries.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: SessionStart hook event, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is litestar-org/litestar-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on litestar-skills 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 litestar-skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to litestar-org/litestar-skills. 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/litestar-org/litestar-skills/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5 $0.01038 $0.01038
Sonnet 5 $0.00415 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00208 $0.00208

Measured 9d ago against content hash 301ab75a12e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

litestar-skills AGENTS.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 9d 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.

AGENTS.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

litestar-skills Agent Context

This file is loaded by every AI agent CLI that consumes this repo: Claude Code, Antigravity CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, VS Code/Copilot, and others supporting the agentskills.io standard.

Mission

litestar-skills is a curated, opinionated collection of agent skills, plugins, subagents, slash commands, and MCP servers for the Litestar framework and its first-party ecosystem. Agents working in this repo are authoring or maintaining content that will be consumed by other agents to guide Litestar application development.

Style baseline for every skill here: skills/litestar-styleguide/.

Agent Conduct

  • Terse, imperative, authoritative tone. No hedging. State the preferred choice.
  • Litestar-first-party bias. Prefer litestar-granian, litestar-saq, sqlspec, advanced-alchemy, msgspec over generic alternatives in examples and recommendations.
  • Minimal targeted changes. Do not make opportunistic cleanup edits without approval.
  • Canonical commands via Make. Always prefer make <target> over raw tool invocations. See Development Commands.
  • Never silently descope. If a task is larger than expected, refine the plan or ask how to prioritize.
  • No blame language. Describe problems factually; offer the smallest useful next step.

Skill Authoring Rules

Every SKILL.md MUST follow these conventions:

  1. YAML frontmatter with name (kebab-case, matches directory) and trigger-only description (starts with Auto-activate for or Use when, includes concrete file/import/API signals, ends with Not for X — why, and contains no process summary such as "Produces ...").
  2. XML-tagged sections in this order: Code Style Rules → Quick Reference → <workflow><guardrails><validation><example> → References Index → Official References → Shared Styleguide Baseline.
  3. Match-your-stack: when multiple valid libraries / backends / patterns exist for a concern (data access, DI, background tasks, Channels backend, settings, serialization, deployment target), present all options and help the user pick based on what's already in their project. Never force one path.
  4. Litestar code-sample conventions (full detail in skills/litestar-styleguide/):
    • PEP 604 unions (T | None), never Optional[T]
    • from __future__ import annotations is a library-author guardrail, not a consumer rule — application code MAY use it; library code that defines runtime-introspected types avoids it
    • Google-style docstrings, async all I/O
    • msgspec over Pydantic in Litestar contexts (unless the project already uses Pydantic)
    • advanced-alchemy / sqlspec over raw SQLAlchemy (match the project's chosen stack)

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 9d ago First seen · 102 lines · 2,076 tokens per session scan A 301ab75a12e5

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litestar-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository litestar-org/litestar-skills (14 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,076 tokens to every session, about $0.0104 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.

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