What is clang-format-configuration?

A configuration guide for clang-format, a tool that automatically formats source code according to defined style rules. It covers creating, changing, and troubleshooting formatting configuration.

Use it to analyze code style, create or modify a .clang-format file, connect formatting to editors or Git, and investigate unexpected formatting.

It helps teams turn existing code-style conventions into consistent formatting rules and reduce unwanted formatting changes.

clang-format-configuration — Plugin for Claude Code by Jamie-BitFlight

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 55 tokens a session between them.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Security

Grade A, and why

clang-format-configuration 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 2mo 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.

plugins/clang-format/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "clang-format-configuration",
  "description": "The model must invoke this skill when any trigger occurs - (1) user mentions \"clang-format\" or \".clang-format\", (2) user requests analyzing code style/formatting patterns/conventions, (3) user requests creating/modifying/generating formatting configuration, (4) user troubleshoots formatting behavior or unexpected results, (5) user asks about brace styles/indentation/spacing/alignment/line breaking/pointer alignment, (6) user wants to preserve existing style/minimize whitespace changes/reduce formatting diffs/codify dominant conventions.",
  "version": "1.1.11",
  "author": {
    "name": "Jamie Nelson",
    "url": "https://github.com/bitflight-devops"
  }
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 55 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Skill clang-format A 55 tokens

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.

2mo ago First seen · 10 lines scan A 2b118138959f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clang-format-configuration is a plugin published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (67 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-03.

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