building-envelope

building-envelope is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects. It costs 102 tokens per session (10,076 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing the outer layer of a building, including walls, windows, roofs, insulation, and moisture protection. This outer layer is called the building envelope because it separates indoor conditions from weather outside.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare wall, roof, glazing, and facade systems and to reason about insulation, heat transfer, solar gain, air leakage, condensation, and rain protection.
Why use it?
It helps balance structural safety, weather resistance, indoor comfort, energy use, moisture control, and the building’s appearance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the Skills-Architects plugin — 29 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare wall, roof, glazing, and facade systems and to reason about insulation, heat transfer, solar gain, air leakage, condensation, and rain protection.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/skills-architects/building-envelope
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects --skill building-envelope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Skills-Architects, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for building-envelope

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for building-envelope

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,076 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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.
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 5.1 $0.00102 $0.10076
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.05038
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01008

Measured 11d ago against content hash e1cb45624418, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

building-envelope 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 11d 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/building-envelope/SKILL.md · 620 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 620 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building Envelope

Section 1: Envelope Performance Requirements

The building envelope is the critical interface between interior and exterior environments. It must simultaneously perform four functions:

  1. Structural support: Transfer wind loads, dead loads (self-weight + cladding), and seismic forces to the primary structure. Resist impact loads (wind-borne debris in hurricane zones).
  2. Weather protection: Exclude rain, snow, wind, and UV radiation. Manage moisture in all three phases (liquid water, water vapor, ice).
  3. Thermal and energy performance: Control heat flow (conduction, convection, radiation), solar gain, air leakage, and condensation. The envelope accounts for 25–50% of total building energy consumption.
  4. Aesthetics and identity: The facade is the public face of the building. Material, proportion, texture, color, and transparency define architectural character.

1.1 Performance Metrics

Metric Unit Description
U-value W/m²K Thermal transmittance (lower = better insulation)
R-value m²K/W Thermal resistance (higher = better insulation); R = 1/U
g-value (SHGC) Dimensionless (0–1) Solar heat gain coefficient — fraction of solar energy transmitted through glazing
VLT % Visible light transmittance through glazing
Air permeability m³/h/m² at 50 Pa Air leakage rate through envelope at 50 Pa pressure differential
Vapor resistance MNs/g or sd (m) Resistance to water vapor diffusion
Rw dB Weighted sound reduction index (acoustic)
Fire rating Minutes/hours Time the assembly maintains integrity and insulation in fire

1.2 Climate-Specific Performance Targets

Hot-arid climate (ASHRAE CZ 1B–3B, e.g., Riyadh, Phoenix):

  • Wall U-value: ≤0.35 W/m²K
  • Roof U-value: ≤0.20 W/m²K
  • Window U-value: ≤2.4 W/m²K (double glazed, solar control)
  • SHGC: ≤0.25 (critical — solar rejection is primary concern)
  • Shading: external shading devices essential; shading coefficient 0.3–0.5
  • Thermal mass: beneficial for diurnal temperature swing damping (>300 kg/m² desirable)
  • Air permeability: ≤3.0 m³/h/m² at 50 Pa (sand/dust exclusion)
  • Key strategy: reject solar radiation, provide thermal mass, shade all glazing, minimize WWR to 25–35%

Read the full file on GitHub · 620 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 620 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A e1cb45624418

Subscribe to this mod's changes

building-envelope is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/Skills-Architects (285 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 10,076 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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