coupling

coupling is a plugin for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 200 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository analysis and refactoring tool for finding dependencies that make changes spread between documents, code modules, applications, or repositories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate and reduce connections between project parts while preserving behavior, and to record larger design changes for later work.
Why use it?
It helps identify where parts of a project are unnecessarily tied together, which can make even small changes risky or expensive.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it to locate and reduce connections between project parts while preserving behavior, and to record larger design changes for later work.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins
/plugin install coupling
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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 200 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

coupling 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 2d 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/coupling/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 20 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "coupling",
  "version": "0.4.0",
  "description": "Iteratively reduces coupling in documents, code modules, applications, or repositories: scans for change-transmitting dependencies against a coupling model (strength ladder, connascence, volatility), verifies each finding, applies a budgeted batch of safe behavior-preserving reductions, and keeps a ledger so structural candidates route to design and later runs resume. When a value changes, it finds and classifies every site stating it and converts setup sites to references.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Melodic Software",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "coupling",
    "cohesion",
    "decouple",
    "connascence",
    "dependency-injection",
    "refactoring",
    "skill"
  ]
}
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 — 200 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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.

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coupling is a plugin published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (25 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 2026-08-30.