kanban-md: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/design-kanban-md-output/SKILL.md

design-kanban-md-output is a skill for Claude Code from antopolskiy/kanban-md. It costs 62 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for kanban-md command-line output, including table, compact, and JSON forms. It treats field names, record boundaries, format selectors, errors, and defaults as interfaces that people and scripts depend on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing output formats, flags, environment variables, renderers, fields, grouping, errors, or token-efficient output. Do not use it for task or configuration file schemas.
Why use it?
It prevents output changes from breaking shell commands, automated agents, or integrations. It also avoids output changing unexpectedly based on whether a terminal is attached.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is antopolskiy/kanban-md's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kanban-md itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kanban-md configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to antopolskiy/kanban-md. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antopolskiy/kanban-md/main/.agents/skills/design-kanban-md-output/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/antopolskiy/kanban-md

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00062 $0.00646
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00258
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00065

Measured 23d ago against content hash cb108a233481, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-kanban-md-output 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 23d 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.

.agents/skills/design-kanban-md-output/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design kanban-md output

CLI output serves humans, agents, and scripts. Treat the default, format selection, field names, record boundaries, and error shapes as user-facing contracts rather than incidental presentation.

Format roles

  • table is the default in both TTY and non-TTY environments. It is padded, readable output for interactive use.
  • compact is selected with --compact, --oneline, or KANBAN_OUTPUT=compact. It uses one record per line, avoids repeated JSON keys, and is optimized for agent context.
  • json is selected with --json or KANBAN_OUTPUT=json. It is the complete structured form for parsing, pipes, and integrations.

TTY auto-detection was intentionally removed because agents commonly execute in non-TTY environments and previously received verbose JSON by default. Do not restore implicit TTY-dependent selection without new evidence and an explicit compatibility decision.

Contract rules

  • Preserve explicit format flags and environment-variable behavior. Conflicting selectors must fail or resolve through the documented precedence, never silently vary with terminal state.
  • Keep compact output one-line-per-record and sufficiently self-describing for agents. Avoid repeated labels or decorative padding that materially increases token use.
  • Keep JSON complete and machine-oriented. Field removals, renames, type changes, and error-shape changes require compatibility analysis; additive fields still require documentation and tests.
  • Keep table output readable and stable enough for humans, while avoiding tests that prevent harmless spacing improvements unless alignment itself is the contract.
  • Do not publish precise token-savings claims without a current, reproducible measurement against the formats being compared.
  • Update README.md, command help, examples, and embedded skill references when output behavior changes.

Implementation and verification

Centralize semantic data before rendering so table, compact, and JSON surfaces do not drift. Test renderer behavior in internal/output/ and complete command selection in e2e/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 23d ago First seen · 72 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A cb108a233481

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design-kanban-md-output is a skill published in the GitHub repository antopolskiy/kanban-md (226 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 646 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-06.