nix-skills

nix-skills is a plugin for Claude Code from rikdc/ai-skills. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 169 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

An expert guide for Nix, NixOS, and home-manager, tools for declaratively managing software and system settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Nix expressions and flakes, NixOS or home-manager setup, package creation, secret handling, and security hardening.
Why use it?
It helps explain and work through configuration, packaging, secrets, and system hardening in the Nix ecosystem.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it for Nix expressions and flakes, NixOS or home-manager setup, package creation, secret handling, and security hardening.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add rikdc/ai-skills/plugin install nix-skills
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/rikdc/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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 169 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

nix-skills 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 8d 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/nix-skills/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "nix-skills",
  "description": "Expert guidance on Nix, NixOS, and home-manager — expressions, flakes, packaging, secrets, and hardening",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Richard Claydon"
  },
  "license": "MPL-2.0",
  "keywords": ["skills", "nix", "nixos", "home-manager", "flakes", "homelab"],
  "skills": ["./skills/"]
}
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 — 169 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. 8d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 0303a11c0404

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nix-skills is a plugin published in the GitHub repository rikdc/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MPL-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.