self-migrate

A guided process for moving a codebase to a newer technology or structure one piece at a time, running tests after each change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to migrate, port, upgrade, convert, or modernize a codebase incrementally.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of a large conversion breaking the project by using tests as a safety check throughout the work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/5uck1ess/devkit/self-migrate
Any agent
npx skills add 5uck1ess/devkit --skill self-migrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/5uck1ess/devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 161 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00055 $0.00161
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00016

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9c3156588016, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-migrate 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.

skills/self-migrate/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Self-Migrate

Deterministic incremental migration loop. Baseline → migrate one piece → verify with tests → loop until done → summary. Tests are the safety gate at every step.

Invoke

Use the devkit_start tool with workflow: "self-migrate" and input: "{input}".

Then follow each step the engine returns. Call devkit_advance after completing each step. The engine controls step order, gates, and loops. Do NOT skip steps.

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 · 15 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9c3156588016

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-migrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository 5uck1ess/devkit (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 161 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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.

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