kotlin-functions

kotlin-functions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashtanko/kotlin-app-template. It costs 36 tokens per session (890 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for deciding where Kotlin functions should live and whether they should be member, top-level, extension, factory, or service functions. It bases the choice on which type or concept truly owns the behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing Kotlin APIs or refactoring functions, especially operations involving primitives, collections, Flow, framework objects, or third-party library types.
Why use it?
It helps avoid misleading extensions on strings, collections, framework types, or third-party types that can pollute a codebase and create confusing imports or name collisions.

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 when designing Kotlin APIs or refactoring functions, especially operations involving primitives, collections, Flow, framework objects, or third-party library types.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ashtanko/kotlin-app-template --skill kotlin-functions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashtanko/kotlin-app-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 890 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00890
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00089

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1058f2afbf40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kotlin-functions 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/kotlin-functions/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.

Kotlin function ownership

Core principle

Put a function on the smallest accurate semantic owner. Extension syntax changes call shape, not ownership.

Reject primitive, common, and library-owned extensions by default: they create false ownership, domain pollution, noisy completion/imports, and collisions.

Procedure

Apply in order.

1. Name the semantic owner

Name the operation and the concept that owns it. If ownership is unclear, stop before selecting syntax.

2. Reject a misleading receiver early

For String, primitives, collections, Flow, framework, or third-party receivers, require all:

  • Narrow private/internal cohesive scope.
  • Valid for every receiver value.
  • No policy, state, I/O, or dependency.
  • Materially clearer receiver syntax.
  • No better project-owned owner.

Any failure forbids an extension on that receiver; choose a non-extension form in step 3. private fun <T> MutableList<T>.swap(...) can pass: it is list-native, policy-free, and algorithm-local.

3. Choose the function form

Meaning Prefer
Project-owned intrinsic behavior Member
Cross-type, stateless operation Top-level function
Construction or parsing Target factory or named top-level function
Retained policy, state, I/O, clock, locale, or dependencies Injected service/collaborator
Type-native operation with a clearer receiver and every step-2 gate passed Extension

Use a service/collaborator only when behavior retains policy, state, I/O, clock/locale, or dependencies; otherwise use explicit parameters on a stateless function. Inject the collaborator through the constructor (see this project's dispatcher-injection convention in ../../reference/coding-conventions.md) rather than reaching for a singleton.

4. Move behavior and callers

Move the implementation, then update calls, imports, and function references. Preserve or deprecate public entry points unless this is an explicit breaking release; add non-public migration support only for concrete consumers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 12d ago First seen · 97 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1058f2afbf40

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kotlin-functions is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashtanko/kotlin-app-template (41 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 890 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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