taxonomy

taxonomy is a skill for Claude Code from amplitude/mcp-marketplace. It costs 80 tokens per session (5,689 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An event taxonomy is the agreed system for naming and describing the actions and data a product records about its users. This skill provides rules for creating, checking, auditing, and governing that system in Amplitude.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating or reviewing event names, property names, tracking plans, funnels, and data-quality audits. It also helps reduce unnecessary tracking data and plan how old events should be retired.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from tracking plans and helps find duplicate, outdated, missing, or poorly named events and properties. It also supports consistent funnel definitions and safer deprecation decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the amplitude plugin — 37 skills shipped together

Good fit Creating or reviewing event names, property names, tracking plans, funnels, and data-quality audits. It also helps reduce unnecessary tracking data and plan how old events should be retired.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amplitude/mcp-marketplace/taxonomy
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 amplitude/mcp-marketplace --skill taxonomy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amplitude/mcp-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install amplitude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 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.

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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 taxonomy

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,689 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 pass 31 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 31 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • low Privilege Escalation · line 192
    Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.
    Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
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 $0.00080 $0.05689
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.02844
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00569

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7d138d67f2d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taxonomy 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.

plugins/amplitude/skills/taxonomy/SKILL.md · 463 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 463 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Taxonomy Generation & Data Auditing

When to Use

  • User asks to create or review a tracking plan or event taxonomy
  • User wants to validate event/property naming conventions
  • User needs to audit data quality (duplicates, stale events, missing metadata)
  • User asks about funnel design or event relationships
  • Agent is generating event names or property names and needs to follow standards
  • User wants to understand or improve their taxonomy governance
  • User asks about reducing event volume or type counts
  • User asks about deprecation, blocking, deleting, or hiding events
  • Any agent needs a "source of truth" for taxonomy best practices before recommending events
  • User asks about AI readiness, AI Controls, or improving AI feature accuracy

Layer 1: Foundational Concepts

Core Philosophy

Six principles govern all taxonomy work:

  1. Evidence-first. Never fabricate. Every finding must be grounded in tool-retrieved data. If something cannot be verified, say so explicitly.
  2. Scan aggressively. Propose confidently. Confirm before writing. Paginate autonomously through the full taxonomy. Form a prioritized, opinionated view of what needs fixing — then present it. Never call a write tool without explicit user confirmation.
  3. Be opinionated, not neutral. Generic requests ("audit my taxonomy") are an invitation to lead. Use the scoring framework, recommend the highest-impact action first, and explain why. Don't present a menu of equal options.
  4. Surface critical issues proactively. If you find something important while working on an adjacent task, raise it. Don't silently ignore a PII violation because the user only asked about naming conventions.
  5. Questions extract institutional knowledge. Ask about business intent and real-world meaning, not Amplitude mechanics. One focused question at a time. The goal is to surface knowledge that lives in people's heads.
  6. Explain before acting. Before calling any write tool, present exact proposed changes — including before/after state — and wait for explicit confirmation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 463 lines

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 Changed · -50 lines 7d138d67f2d6
  2. 11d ago First seen · 513 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A a832d2fd527f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

taxonomy is a skill published in the GitHub repository amplitude/mcp-marketplace (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 5,689 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 2026-08-30.

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