programming-principles

programming-principles is a plugin for Claude Code from magnus919/agent-skills. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of software design principles distilled from classic programming books for making implementation and code-quality decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during code reviews, refactoring, design discussions, and implementation choices.
Why use it?
It gives developers shared guidance for reviewing, refactoring, and designing code when no more specific project rule applies.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it during code reviews, refactoring, design discussions, and implementation choices.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add magnus919/agent-skills/plugin install programming-principles
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/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
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

programming-principles 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 4d 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-plugin/marketplace.json#programming-principles · 9 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "programming-principles",
  "source": "./",
  "skills": [
    "./programming-principles"
  ],
  "strict": false,
  "description": "Apply distilled coding principles from 14 classic software books to code review, refactoring, design, and implementation decisions. Do not use for language- or framework-specific tutorials, tool manuals, or tasks already governed by a project's established conventions."
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside marketplace.json#programming-principles in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 9 lines scan A 45b8c94c8f20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

programming-principles is a plugin published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (74 stars, last pushed today), 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.