newton

newton is a plugin for Claude Code from PBNZ/newton-skill. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill, 1 command it bundles cost 153 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plugin that enables Newton, an optional reasoning and sparring-partner mode for coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want an agent to reason rigorously, research current sources, or make surgical changes after explicit activation.
Why use it?
It provides structured guidance for careful engagement, including pushback, source research, reuse checks, and focused edits.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it when you want an agent to reason rigorously, research current sources, or make surgical changes after explicit activation.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add PBNZ/newton-skill
/plugin install newton
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/PBNZ/newton-skill

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, 1 command cost 153 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

newton 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/newton/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 14 lines

What it actually says

{
  "$schema": "https://anthropic.com/claude-code/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "newton",
  "description": "Reasoning and sparring partner mode for rigorous, calibrated engagement — honest pushback, current-sources research, reuse-before-rebuild checks, and surgical edits. Opt-in by explicit invocation.",
  "version": "0.3.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "PBNZ"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/PBNZ/newton-skill",
  "repository": "https://github.com/PBNZ/newton-skill",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "keywords": ["reasoning", "thinking", "sparring-partner", "research", "agent-skills"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 command travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 153 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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 14 lines scan A 09f6a42cf89b

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newton is a plugin published in the GitHub repository PBNZ/newton-skill (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. 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 2026-08-31.