skills CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rewrite-rs/skills. It costs 1,050 tokens per session, scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A set of instructions for authoring, editing, or reviewing skills in the rewrite-rs repository. It defines where different skills belong, which files must list published skills, and how prose and verification should guide their content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing skills in the Rust, porting, workflow, or miscellaneous buckets, updating README.md, plugin.json, or documentation pages, or reviewing the repository's writing and verification rules.
Why use it?
It prevents repository documentation and plugin metadata from getting out of sync. It also provides a consistent way to decide whether a skill is published and how its instructions should be checked.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

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/rewrite-rs/skills/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rewrite-rs/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01050 $0.01050
Opus 5 $0.00525 $0.00525
Sonnet 5 $0.00210 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00105 $0.00105

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1f3befeecac8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 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.

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 · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Rules for any session that authors, edits, or reviews a skill in this repo. Read .agents/invocation.md, .agents/install-block.md, and .agents/writing-docs.md before touching skill content — this file points at them rather than repeating them.

1. Buckets

skills/rust/ (language craft), skills/porting/ (migration), skills/workflow/ (review, testing, setup, router), and skills/misc/ (occasional setup and audit skills, reached for less often) are promoted. skills/in-progress/ (public, unshipped) is not promoted.

Every promoted skill must appear in all three of:

  • README.md
  • .claude-plugin/plugin.json's skills array
  • docs/<bucket>/<name>.md

A non-promoted skill appears in none of the three. The split that decides which bucket a skill lives in is frequency of use — how often an agent reaches for it — not whether the skill happens to write files into a user's repo.

2. Prose-dominant with verification

Skills teach judgment in prose. Commands inside a skill are inline instructions the agent runs itself, never shipped runner scripts the skill invokes on the user's behalf. Every skill where a machine can settle the question it makes ends with a verification step the agent actually runs — see .agents/adr/0001-verification-steps-run-cargo.md.

3. Config precedence

A verification step runs at the lint level configured in the target repo. cargo clippy -- -D warnings is the fallback only when the target repo has no lint configuration at all. A skill must never override a lint level the user (or an earlier setup-rust-skills run) deliberately set.

4. One porting language per session

Never author or revise two port-from-* language skills in the same session. See .agents/adr/0003-one-skill-per-source-language.md for why the set is split by source language in the first place.

5. No citations in skill files

Sources live in .agents/sources.md, not inside any SKILL.md or docs page.

6. Invocation

See .agents/invocation.md for the full rules on user-invoked versus model-invoked skills, and for what agrees between the frontmatter flag in Claude Code and the agents/openai.yaml policy in Codex. Any skill that writes files into the user's repo is user-invoked, in any bucket; rust-skills-map is user-invoked without writing files, because it is a router the user consults directly. The user-invoked skills are therefore setup-rust-skills and rust-skills-map in workflow/, and setup-rust-ci and setup-rust-pre-commit in misc/. Every other skill is model-invoked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines · 1,050 tokens per session scan A 1f3befeecac8

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rewrite-rs/skills (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 1,050 tokens to every session, about $0.0052 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.