code-metrics-analysis

code-metrics-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 40 tokens per session (570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for measuring code characteristics such as complexity, size, nesting, and how often code changes. These measurements help show how difficult code may be to understand or maintain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess code quality, inspect older code, find refactoring candidates, monitor technical debt, automate review checks, and set quality gates in CI/CD.
Why use it?
It helps find code that is becoming hard to change, likely needs refactoring, or is adding to technical debt—the future work created by shortcuts and aging code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess code quality, inspect older code, find refactoring candidates, monitor technical debt, automate review checks, and set quality gates in CI/CD.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/code-metrics-analysis
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 aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill code-metrics-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 570 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.00570
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1745801ef2d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-metrics-analysis 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/scaffold-tests.sh, templates/test-template.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/code-metrics-analysis/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Metrics Analysis

Table of Contents

Overview

Measure and analyze code quality metrics to identify complexity, maintainability issues, and areas for improvement.

When to Use

  • Code quality assessment
  • Identifying refactoring candidates
  • Technical debt monitoring
  • Code review automation
  • CI/CD quality gates
  • Team performance tracking
  • Legacy code analysis

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

import * as ts from "typescript";
import * as fs from "fs";

interface ComplexityMetrics {
  cyclomaticComplexity: number;
  cognitiveComplexity: number;
  linesOfCode: number;
  functionCount: number;
  classCount: number;
  maxNestingDepth: number;
}

class CodeMetricsAnalyzer {
  analyzeFile(filePath: string): ComplexityMetrics {
    const sourceCode = fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf-8");
    const sourceFile = ts.createSourceFile(
      filePath,
      sourceCode,
      ts.ScriptTarget.Latest,
      true,
    );

    const metrics: ComplexityMetrics = {
      cyclomaticComplexity: 0,
      cognitiveComplexity: 0,
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
TypeScript Complexity Analyzer TypeScript Complexity Analyzer
Python Code Metrics (using radon) Python Code Metrics (using radon)
ESLint Plugin for Complexity ESLint Plugin for Complexity
CI/CD Quality Gates CI/CD Quality Gates

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Monitor metrics over time
  • Set reasonable thresholds
  • Focus on trends, not absolute numbers
  • Automate metric collection
  • Use metrics to guide refactoring
  • Combine multiple metrics
  • Include metrics in code reviews

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 10d ago First seen · 97 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 1745801ef2d0

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code-metrics-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (336 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 570 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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