using-chrisbanes-skills

using-chrisbanes-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashtanko/compose-android-template. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,417 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for broad Kotlin, Android, or Jetpack Compose work. It directs you to the smaller, topic-specific guides that fit the task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose focused guidance for reviewing or refactoring Compose screens, designing state, wiring ViewModels, improving performance, or planning tests.
Why use it?
It helps when a request covers several areas and the right guidance is not obvious. This reduces the chance of missing advice for state, UI, testing, or performance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to choose focused guidance for reviewing or refactoring Compose screens, designing state, wiring ViewModels, improving performance, or planning tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashtanko/compose-android-template/using-chrisbanes-skills
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 ashtanko/compose-android-template --skill using-chrisbanes-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashtanko/compose-android-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,417 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 $0.00054 $0.01417
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00709
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00142

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1d2f56afb3aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-chrisbanes-skills 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 8d 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/using-chrisbanes-skills/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using chrisbanes skills

Router only. Use this skill to choose the focused skill or skills for the task, then load those focused skills before giving detailed advice or editing code.

If a request already clearly matches a focused skill, use that skill directly. If several areas affect the work, load each relevant focused skill before acting on that area.

Common routes

Task signal Start with
Broad Compose screen review or refactor compose-state-holder-ui-split, then add state, effects, layout, testing, or performance skills as needed
Local Compose state, bare local var, remember { mutableStateOf(...) }, mutableStateListOf, or @ReadOnlyComposable compose-state-authoring
Deciding whether state belongs locally, hoisted, in a plain state holder, or in a screen state holder compose-state-hoisting
ViewModel, component, controller, navigation, Flow collection, or dependency wiring mixed with UI layout compose-state-holder-ui-split
LaunchedEffect, DisposableEffect, SideEffect, rememberCoroutineScope, rememberUpdatedState, navigation, snackbar, analytics, focus requests, or event Flow collection compose-side-effects
Recomposition, jank, compiler reports, Layout Inspector counts, unstable params, scroll reads, animation reads, or back-writing state across phases compose-recomposition-performance
Known Compose stability or skippability question, compiler classes.txt / composables.txt, collection parameters, or strong skipping compose-stability-diagnostics
Frame-rate state reads from scroll, animation, gestures, layout, or draw; value-form layout/draw modifiers; measurement state back-writing compose-state-deferred-reads
Modifier parameters, root layout placement, hardcoded layout decisions, or modifier chain style compose-modifier-and-layout-style
Reusable Compose component API with variable visual content, primitive content params, optional content params, or boolean shape flags compose-slot-api-pattern
Compose visibility, value, color, size, transition, content swap, or choosing an animation API compose-animations
Keyboard, TV, desktop, D-pad, FocusRequester, focusProperties, key events, or initial focus behavior compose-focus-navigation
Compose UI tests, screenshot tests, previews, semantics, fake image loading, keyboard input, focus assertions, or interaction state tests compose-ui-testing-patterns
Coroutine scope ownership, init { launch }, non-suspending APIs that launch work, runBlocking, or cancellation handling kotlin-coroutines-structured-concurrency
Kotlin branching, when expressions, guard conditions, sealed type exhaustiveness, smart casts, nullable branching, or complex if/else chains kotlin-control-flow
StateFlow, SharedFlow, Channel, stateIn, SharingStarted, .value, one-shot events, sentinel initial values, or expensive update blocks kotlin-flow-state-event-modeling
Kotlin Multiplatform platform APIs, source set boundaries, expect/actual, interfaces for platform services, permissions, files, sensors, native SDKs, or Compose Multiplatform interop kotlin-multiplatform-expect-actual
Kotlin function placement, member vs top-level function, extension functions, factories, primitive receivers, or extensions on String, collections, Flow, framework, or third-party types kotlin-functions
Single-field domain types, primitive obsession, or choosing @JvmInline value class vs data class kotlin-types-value-class
Polling or shepherding PRs/MRs, triaging review comments, fixing CI failures, or keeping reviews moving shepherd

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. 8d ago First seen · 45 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 1d2f56afb3aa

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using-chrisbanes-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashtanko/compose-android-template (10 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,417 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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