skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rana/skills. It costs 1,575 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instruction rules for Claude Code projects that use the SRF Cognitive Toolkit, a collection of analytical and mission-specific skills, commands, practices, and agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when working on the rana/skills project or another SRF Online Teachings Portal task that requires reading project documents and following its skill conventions.
Why use it?
They give agents a consistent way to understand the project, follow its skill format, and ground their work in the project's Markdown documentation.

Instructions file for Claude Code

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

This is rana/skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on 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 skills configures →

View source ↗ rana/skills
Reuse

Borrowing it

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01575 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00788 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00315 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00158 $0.00158

Measured 8d ago against content hash 69ea7538ed8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills 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 8d 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 · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SRF Cognitive Toolkit

Cognitive infrastructure for the SRF Online Teachings Portal — 43 skills (37 analytical + 6 SRF mission), 9 commands, 2 practices, and 8 agents (4 domain-agnostic + 4 SRF-specialized). Shared across the SRF team and autonomous agents working on the portal.

36 analytical skills are domain-agnostic (they analyze whatever project they're pointed at). 6 SRF mission skills are portal-specific (proposal management, mission alignment, seeker experience). 1 skill (ftr-curate) bridges both — domain-agnostic methodology with FTR-specific structural awareness. 4 domain-agnostic agents (architect, designer, builder, operator) work in any codebase. 4 SRF-specialized agents embed skill methodology with project-specific reading strategies, identifier conventions, and domain vocabulary.

Skill Anatomy

Every skill definition (skills/<name>/SKILL.md) follows a consistent structure:

---
name: <skill-name>
description: <one-line>
argument-hint: "<usage pattern>"
---

Read all project markdown documents to ground in the project's actual state.

## <Analysis Protocol>
[Methodology]

## Output
[Skill-specific output guidance]

[Closing questions]

Conventions that matter:

  • "Read all project markdown documents" grounds in the SRF portal's docs: CLAUDE.md, PRINCIPLES.md, CONTEXT.md, ROADMAP.md, features/FEATURES.md, and relevant FTR files
  • Output sections contain skill-specific guidance (ordering, segmentation, format) — not boilerplate
  • Skills are read-only — they propose changes but never modify files. Exceptions: land (transitions analysis into action), ftr-curate (FTR corpus operations with preview-by-default), and codex harvest (applies edits to CODEX.md, archives sessions)
  • Practices (/codex, /dream) are distinct from skills — they use context isolation to avoid contamination vectors, operate in collaborative medium, and access practice registers. See SYSTEM.md § Practice Layer
  • Closing questions ("What am I not asking?") seed meta-cognition — functional, not decorative
  • "You have complete design autonomy" in cognitive skills unlocks creative capacity — it's a precision instrument
  • Skill prompts are precision instruments — specific wording produces measurably different cognitive behavior. Do not paraphrase when editing

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 8d ago First seen · 114 lines · 1,575 tokens per session scan A 69ea7538ed8d

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rana/skills (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,575 tokens to every session, about $0.0079 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.

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