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.
npx skills add atstaeff/ai-agents --skill anti-patternsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atstaeff/ai-agentsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/anti-patterns)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/anti-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/anti-patterns/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/anti-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/anti-patterns.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00019 | $0.00174 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00070 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00035 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00017 |
Grade A, and why
anti-patterns 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.
What it actually says
Anti Patterns
Workflow
- Check whether each abstraction solves a demonstrated problem. Prefer a direct implementation when extension points have no consumer.
- Look for hidden coupling, mutable globals, swallowed exceptions, duplicated state, excessive mocking and premature distribution.
- Describe the concrete failure mode and the smallest safer change. Preserve useful behavior with a regression check.
- Separate a defect from a preference. Do not prescribe a rewrite or a new framework merely to match a pattern.
Completion
Return the concrete result, verification evidence and any material unresolved limitation. Keep documentation proportional to the change and preserve human feedback.
Focused references
- Detailed examples: load only the section relevant to the task.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 12d ago Changed · -237 lines · -1 tokens per session 9ce06d4d9631
- 1mo ago First seen · 259 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A dc3e1f9d9769
anti-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository atstaeff/ai-agents (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 174 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.
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