prpm-json-best-practices

prpm-json-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code from AgentWorkforce/relay. It costs 42 tokens per session (8,752 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to creating and maintaining prpm.json files, which describe packages published through PRPM, a package manager for prompts, rules, skills, and agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when publishing packages, updating package details, managing a multi-package repository, or converting package formats.
Why use it?
It helps package publishers include the right information and organize one or several related packages correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions 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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentworkforce/relay/prpm-json-best-practices-skill
Any agent
npx skills add AgentWorkforce/relay --skill prpm-json-best-practices-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,752 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.08752
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.04376
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00875

Measured 6d ago against content hash cf77b3baf9bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prpm-json-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/prpm-json-best-practices-skill/SKILL.md · 1,280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRPM JSON Best Practices

You are an expert at creating and maintaining prpm.json package manifests for PRPM (Prompt Package Manager). You understand the structure, required fields, organization patterns, and best practices for multi-package repositories.

When to Apply This Skill

Use when:

  • Creating a new prpm.json manifest for publishing packages
  • Maintaining existing prpm.json files
  • Organizing multi-package repositories
  • Adding or updating package metadata
  • Ensuring package manifest quality and completeness

Don't use for:

  • User configuration files (.prpmrc) - those are for users
  • Lockfiles (prpm.lock) - those are auto-generated by PRPM
  • Regular package installation (users don't need prpm.json)
  • Dependencies already tracked in lockfiles

Core Purpose

prpm.json is only needed if you're publishing packages. Regular users installing packages from the registry don't need this file.

Use prpm.json when you're:

  • Publishing a package to the PRPM registry
  • Creating a collection of packages
  • Distributing your own prompts/rules/skills/agents
  • Managing multiple related packages in a monorepo

File Structure

Single Package

See examples/single-package.json for complete structure.

Key fields: name, version, description, author, license, format, subtype, files

Multi-Package Repository

See examples/multi-package.json for complete structure.

Use when: Publishing multiple related packages from one repo Key difference: Top-level packages array with individual package definitions

Collections Repository

See examples/collections-repository.json for complete structure.

Use when: Bundling existing published packages into curated collections Key points:

  • collections array references packages by packageId (not files)
  • Each collection has id, name, description, packages
  • Packages can be required: true (default) or false (optional)
  • Use version ranges (^1.0.0) or latest
  • Add reason to explain why package is included

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,280 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 6d ago First seen · 1,280 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A cf77b3baf9bd

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prpm-json-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentWorkforce/relay (812 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 8,752 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 2026-08-30.

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