law-of-demeter

law-of-demeter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from amadeus-dlc/amadeus. It costs 71 tokens per session (314 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A code-review guide based on the Law of Demeter, a design rule that objects should mainly talk to their direct collaborators rather than navigate other objects' internals.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review train-wreck call chains, identify misplaced behavior, and replace repeated object navigation with clearer methods.
Why use it?
It helps reduce fragile chains of calls and coupling to object structure when code needs to make a decision using nested data.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review train-wreck call chains, identify misplaced behavior, and replace repeated object navigation with clearer methods.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amadeus-dlc/amadeus/law-of-demeter
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 amadeus-dlc/amadeus --skill law-of-demeter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amadeus-dlc/amadeus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 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 $0.00071 $0.00314
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00157
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00031

Measured 12d ago against content hash e3959bc780ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

law-of-demeter 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 12d 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.

amadeus/spaces/default/knowledge/amadeus-shared/software-design/law-of-demeter/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Law Of Demeter

Talk to direct collaborators, not strangers reached through them.

Workflow

  1. Find call chains such as a.getB().getC().doX() and code that navigates object structure.

  2. Identify the decision or behavior being performed by the caller.

  3. Move that behavior to the object that owns the needed knowledge.

  4. Replace navigation with intention-revealing methods.

  5. Keep DTO, builder, and fluent API exceptions explicit; not every chain is a domain coupling problem.

Checks

  • Train wrecks expose structure and make callers fragile.

  • Repeated navigation paths usually indicate a missing method.

  • Getters used only to make a decision are Tell Don't Ask candidates.

Reference

Read references/patterns.md for refactoring patterns and exceptions.

Detailed Reference

For non-trivial implementation, review, or refactoring work, read references/details.md before giving final guidance. It contains the detailed rules, examples, smells, and migration notes that do not belong in the short invocation body.

Output

Return the chain, the hidden behavior, the target owner, and replacement code.

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. 12d ago First seen · 42 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A e3959bc780ae

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law-of-demeter is a skill published in the GitHub repository amadeus-dlc/amadeus (8 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 314 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.