coding-best-practices

A session-start and sub-agent guide based on advice from books about software design and readable code. It adds coding-practice guidance to the agent’s instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps guide choices about code structure, naming, readability, and software design while coding.
Why use it?
It encourages clearer code and design decisions during the session and when additional agents are assigned work.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add xdg/xdg-claude
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/xdg/xdg-claude/coding-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xdg/xdg-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

coding-best-practices 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.

coding-best-practices/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "coding-best-practices",
  "version": "0.4.1",
  "description": "Injects coding best practices from Philosophy of Software Design and The Art of Readable Code at session start and on subagent dispatch",
  "author": {
    "name": "David Golden",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  }
}
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. 2d ago First seen · 10 lines scan A a8a33272cba4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

coding-best-practices is a plugin published in the GitHub repository xdg/xdg-claude (20 stars, last pushed 12d 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 2026-08-30.