no-any-no-casts

no-any-no-casts is a skill for Claude Code from abstractonion/cadence. It costs 38 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A TypeScript coding rule that avoids any and most as type casts, requiring code to use the real type of a value.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing TypeScript, especially when a value's type is unclear or code is tempted to silence a type error.
Why use it?
It keeps the compiler's checks meaningful instead of hiding uncertainty behind a forced type. This helps reveal incorrect assumptions earlier.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cadence plugin — 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing TypeScript, especially when a value's type is unclear or code is tempted to silence a type error.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abstractonion/cadence/no-any-no-casts
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 abstractonion/cadence --skill no-any-no-casts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abstractonion/cadence

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 239 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 $0.00038 $0.00239
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured 11d ago against content hash 976e1d3b7f4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

no-any-no-casts 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.

plugins/cadence/skills/no-any-no-casts/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

TypeScript: no any, no as casts

Don't bypass the type system to make the compiler happy.

Rules

  • Don't use any to avoid typing something. If you don't know the type, find it in the codebase or infer it from how the value is used.
  • Don't use as to coerce a value into a type. The only as that doesn't need justification is as const.
  • as unknown as X double-cast is forbidden by the same logic.

Allowed exceptions

  • You are copying an existing pattern in the same file/module that already uses a cast for a known-good reason.
  • Library types are genuinely wrong and you've isolated the cast in a single typed wrapper with a comment explaining why.

If you think you need any or as, stop and propose: usually a generic, a type guard, a discriminated union, or a small refactor removes the need.

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 · 22 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 976e1d3b7f4e

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no-any-no-casts is a skill published in the GitHub repository abstractonion/cadence (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 239 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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